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[Lunch hour on the docks, Jacksonville, Fla.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Lunch hour on the docks, Jacksonville, Fla.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Lunch hour on the docks, Jacksonville, Fla.], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Jacksonville collection.

(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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A window into the past: [Lunch hour on the docks, Jacksonville, Fla.], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Workers taking their midday meal on the levee at Jacksonville, Florida, are the subject of this glass negative, which shows longshoremen pausing from loading and unloading cargo along the St. Johns River waterfront. The Detroit Publishing Company made the picture sometime between 1900 and 1915, and its catalog of American towns and landscapes often included working people alongside scenery. Jacksonville was a busy shipping port then, handling lumber, phosphate, and citrus, so the scene offers a glimpse of the daily routine of the riverfront labor that kept those goods moving.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 7818" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500033. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsLevees. Longshoremen. Eating & drinking.United States--Florida--Jacksonville.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74467

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