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South Beach Alligator Farm - B – Vintage Wall Art

South Beach Alligator Farm - B, c1910. — historic photograph
South Beach Alligator Farm - B, c1910.. Historic photograph from the Beaches & Waterways 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: South Beach Alligator Farm - B, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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South Beach Alligator Farm - B

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The wide panoramic format, roughly 7.5 by 30 inches, gives this view of the South Beach Alligator Farm room to show a whole enclosure at once. The record suggests it was probably made at the St. Augustine Ostrich & Alligator Farm in Florida and was deposited for U.S. copyright by George Reddington on March 8, 1910. By then, St. Augustine was drawing steady numbers of winter visitors by rail, and attractions like these farms offered a close look at exotic animals. Photographs such as this one document a popular form of tourist entertainment of the period.

Created / publishedc1910.
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 7.5 x 30 in.
GenreGelatin silver prints.Panoramic photographs.
NotesJ138984 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; George Reddington; March 8, 1910. Probably St. Augustine Ostrich & Alligator Farm.
SubjectsAlligators.United States--Florida--Saint Augustine.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,277 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-198862

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