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A Slight Obstruction in the Ocklawaha – Historic Reproduction

A Slight Obstruction in the Ocklawaha — historic image
A Slight Obstruction in the Ocklawaha. Historic image from the Florida collection.

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A window into the past: A Slight Obstruction in the Ocklawaha, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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A Slight Obstruction in the Ocklawaha

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The title points to a modest hindrance, a fallen tree, a sandbar, or a tangle of drift, and the photographer chose to make it the subject. The Ocklawaha is a winding, blackwater tributary that feeds the St. Johns River in north-central Florida, and in the late 1800s and early 1900s steamboats used it to carry passengers and freight through the cypress swamps. Snags and shifting channels often delayed these trips, so a small blockage could halt a boat for hours. The river was later changed by the Rodman Dam, completed in 1968, which turned much of the valley into a reservoir.

Original scan2,204 × 1,532 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference27 FL Ocklawaha

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