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1905 · rif. 423731 — Florida Louisiana 1905. Hardcover. Very Good. Oblong octavo measuring 7.5" x 4.5". Brown half-leather and cloth over stiff paper boards with "Florida" stamped in gilt on the spine. Contains 34 sepia-toned albumen photographs measuring 3" x 4" with captions on the verso. Album chipped at head of spine photo mounts foxed some fading to photographs thus very good. A photo album documenting a visit by yacht to the West Coast of Florida at the turn-of-the-20th-century with photographs by F.E. Hammann of Bethlehem Pennsylvania. Hammann served as chief clerk of the general passenger department of the Lehigh Valley Railroad until his 1905 appointment as the railway's assistant general manager in the New York office; he was serving as secretary of the Photographic Society of Bethlehem in 1896. The album offers a range of subjects encountered on a cruising tour of southern Florida and the gulf coast; the photographs record Hammann's party in Florida: displaying recently caught fish preparing meals and other activities aboard the yacht party members visiting coconut and date groves and lounging aboard the yacht shoreline landscapes Key West Homes and African Americans working on the New Orleans levees. Roughly 26 of the photographs feature scenes in the "Thousand Islands" region among them Marco Florida Fort Myers and the Caloosahatchee River. The others picturing anglers with fish passing yachts palm and coconut groves and activities aboard the boat. The other eight photographs show scenes in Key West Florida and New Orleans and passengers aboard a "Havana Steamer." An uncommon look at developing West Coast areas of Florida decades before its boom. hardcover