Royal Palms Miami, Florida, 1921 – Historic Photograph Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Royal Palms Miami, Florida, 1921. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Royal Palms near Miami
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Royal Palms Miami, Florida, 1921
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Miami in 1921 was a young city of roughly 30,000 people, having grown quickly since Henry Flagler's railroad reached the Biscayne Bay shore in 1896. Its economy rested on real estate, tourism, and winter visitors who arrived by train from the North, and the first stirrings of the Florida land boom were already drawing buyers and speculators to the coast. Local residents knew the town as a frontier settlement that had gone from pine scrub and palm hammock to a incorporated city in about a generation. This panoramic view of the palm-lined waterfront, photographed by W. A. Fishbaugh, shows the tropical landscape that city boosters were selling to the rest of the country. The boom that would peak around 1925 was still ahead, and the city's growth was about to accelerate.
| Created / published | 1921 |
|---|---|
| Creator | fishbaugh, w. a. (william a.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Florida |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,387 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Royal Palms near Miami |
| Reference | FL Royal Palms Miami 1921 |
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