Tampa Bay Hotel (1898)
Artillery camp (1898)
Looking east on Franklin Street (1898)
Trolley car “The Seminole” (1892)
Seidenberg cigar factory payroll office (1894)
3rd U.S. Cavalry at Drill (1898)
Haya home at 605 Magnolia Avenue, Hyde Park (1895)
Clara Barton and Red Cross colleagues having a picnic (1898)
Cuban volunteers in the barracks (1898)
Theodore Roosevelt and other high ranking officials of the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (1898)
Joseph Janney Steinmetz took these photographs of sponge industry workers, many Greek-American, in Tarpon Springs in the 1940s.
Sponge diver John Gonatos
Sponge diver entering the water
Stacks of sponges
Sponge auction
Trimming sponges
This year marks the 175th anniversary of the city of Madison, Florida.
Daughters of Dr. Chandler Holmes Smith II and Marie Vann Dial Smith, ca. 1914
Florida Manufacturing Company mill, ca. 1890
T.J. Beggs & Company General Store, 1900
Madison town band, ca. 1900
Eva Gertrude Littleton and her Aunt Sweetie, ca. 1910
Horse drawn fire wagon, 1910s
King David Atkins, World War I veteran, ca. 1917
Ragans Chrysler Plymouth dealership, 1930s
Florence Eloise Littleton with her two brothers, 1938
Eunice Priest Clark buying savings bond from Lem Crandall at the post office, 1940
Thomas “Buck” Miller, 1950
Patricia and Gail Herring, 1957
Boys picking shade tobacco, 1977
Edna Warner crocheting, 1977
Ernestine, 1977
Marybelle V. James being sworn in as the first woman and the first African American elected county commissioner in Madison County
Want to see more? The Madison Collection contains approximately 1,000 photographs of Madison County’s people, places and industries.
Monroe Lawrence (left) and B.L. Castle erect a sign at Fountain Lake: Leesburg, Florida (1950s)
Congratulations to Wauchula, Main Street Community of the Month for December 2012! Learn more about the Florida Main Street Program.
Coca-Cola Bottling Company (1930s)
Beeson’s Drug Store (ca. 1905)
May court (1930s)
Doyle Elam Carlton, Jr. (1960)
Visit Florida Memory to see more images of Wauchula and its residents.
Southern Belles at Cypress Gardens!
World-renowed photographer Joseph Janny Steinmetz took these photographs at Cypress Gardens in 1955. Found a great photograph of Cypress Gardens that we missed? Share it with us in the comments!
On the move in Jacksonville in the Roaring ’20s.
Eva Boswell and Ed A. Crane in front of the Capitol Theatre (December 4, 1927)
Businessmen on a good will tour (May 16, 1925)
“Boosie” St. Johns River Follies (1921)
Bay Street in front of the Union Terminal (1921)
Automobile race at the Jacksonville Fairgrounds (1922)
Adams Street (June 5, 1923)
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Enjoy a few of our favorite photographs of Jacksonville Beach in the Roaring ‘20s.
Two miles south of Jacksonville Beach (August 19, 1927)
Tourists at Jacksonville Beach (January 20, 1929)
Jacksonville Beach (ca. 1923)
Tourists walking along the jetty (1929)
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“Mac” Malcolm Daniel McCoy seated on a speed limit sign: Tallahassee, Florida
Gator Xing road sign in Lee County, Florida (1994)
The peaceful solitude of Sanibel Island is ideal for a honeymoon. Follow the adventures of honeymooners Lyn and Jim Agramonte, as photographed by the Florida Department of Commerce in January 1957.
Picnic on the beach
Visit to an abandoned house
Jim, who was born in London, shows Lyn the art of exploring abandoned seaman’s homes – he explored abandoned houses in England when a boy.
Visit to the Sanibel Island Lighthouse
Bidding farewell to Sanibel Island
