The Lightsey House, Fort Meade, Fla. – Antique Wall Art
![The Lightsey House, Fort Meade, Fla., [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c5/c53cebd03119-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with The Lightsey House, Fort Meade, Fla., a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Lightsey House, Fort Meade, Fla.
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The Lightsey House stands in Fort Meade, a small town in central Florida's Polk County, and the photograph records the house itself rather than the people who lived in it. The caption card gives no date, so the picture cannot be placed precisely in time, but its composition suggests the vernacular frame construction common in Florida towns of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Fort Meade grew up around an army post and later around the phosphate mining that transformed much of the region, so a house of this kind offers a glimpse of ordinary domestic architecture in a community shaped by both military and industrial history.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,097 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-160403 |
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