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Listen: The FolkFolk ProgramView showing batter receiving instruction during the Brooklyn Dodgers training camp in Vero Beach, Florida.
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Collection
N2011- 7, Photographic collection, 1930s-1970s; Box 6
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General Note
The Brooklyn Dodgers were one of the first major league baseball teams to conduct spring training in Florida, establishing their operations at Vero Beach in 1948.
Biographical Note
Joseph Janney Steinmetz was a world-renowned commercial photographer whose images appeared in such publications as the Saturday Evening Post, Life, Look, Time, Holiday, Collier's, and Town & Country. His work has been referred to as "an American social history," which documented diverse scenes of American life from affluent northeasterners to middle-class Floridians. Steinmetz moved from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Sarasota, Florida in 1941.
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