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[Lunch hour on the levee, Jacksonville, Fla.] – Antique Wall Art

[Lunch hour on the levee, Jacksonville, Fla.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Lunch hour on the levee, 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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Longshoremen taking their midday break on a Jacksonville levee are the focus of this view, shown eating and drinking at the working edge of the waterfront. In the early 1900s, the St. Johns River was an active shipping route, and levees like this one were where cargo was loaded and unloaded largely by hand. The glass negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, which documented American towns, landscapes and working life in the years before 1915, so the picture preserves a glimpse of everyday dock labor.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 7816" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500032. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsLongshoremen. Eating & drinking. Levees.United States--Florida--Jacksonville.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74466

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