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(Americana - 20th Century - Photography - World War I - USMC - Marine Flying Field - Miami Florida)Biblio.com

Circa 1918 - 1919 Photograph Album of the Men and Flying Machines of the United States Marine Corps Marine Flying Field Miami Florida

1918réf. 030201Miami Florida: USMC 1918. Over 170 individual images including over 25 larger format 5" x 8" size depicting biplanes seaplanes in flight on the ground in wrecks and being salvaged. Photos pasted-on black album paper pages coming loose from the old post-and-cord binding covers loose and about gone; album approx. 7" x 11" size horizontal format. Photos also include various personnel including a few close-ups and of officers on base and at various duties with occasional views of the town and surrounding areas. Many of the aircraft are training biplanes of the Curtiss Jenny classification with several having their fuselage numbers clearly visible. A few of the photographs are professionally taken by the Miami photography studio of R.B. Hoit with his identifications in the plate. Several dramatic images show grounded and damaged planes and the results of air crashes. At least one of the smaller snapshots show a plane with the fuselage side-marking "Marine Flying Field Miami Florida." A few small 'targeting' photos show aircraft coming into attack range; others show the ground area. Several images give aircraft information "Ng Sea Plane - Curtiss Oxx 6 Motor" HIS - L Flying Boat Liberty Motor." There are also a few photos of blimps. A couple of photos show a downed aircraft in shallow water and being 'salvaged' by personnel floating around attempting to move the plane. Research indicates that "The U. S. Marine Corps leased the old Curtiss Flying Field from Glenn Curtiss. used for training Marine aviators and the first Marine Corps airfield solely used by Marine aircraft. The Marine Flying Field Miami was in operation from March 1918 until September 25 1919 located on the north side of the Miami River at approximately NW 33rd Avenue Miami. The First Marine Aviation Force commanded by Captain Cunningham was formed on April 15 1918 and the four squadrons of this Force designated "A" "B" "C" and "D" rapidly trained for combat flying Curtiss JN-4's and Thomas-Morse Scouts. They were augmented by some 80 Navy pilots who transferred to the Marine Corps in anticipation of a more rapid deployment to the war zone." Information on this USMC base from the Don Boyd pbas website page on this base who also credits Mark Lincoln In addition to the military photographs which are the majority there is a 1911-12 freshman H.S. class photo location unknown; family photographs a few train-schedules pasted-in along with a couple of handwritten notes one by a child; and travel scenery from town and country. A couple of images show a partially-completed Mt. Rushmore South Dakota with George Washington's features the only visible portrait; with other Western America scenery forest & lake vistas mountain ranges; and photographs of folks camping hunting & fishing and the results. A few of the photos edge-and-corner chipped; mostly all in good condition. . Photograph Album. Soft Cover. Good. USMC paperback

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George Fulmer; Florida Sunbelt MigrationBiblio.com

Clearwater Florida Public & Civic Life Archive: 94 Photographs of Elections Political Campaigns Public Works & Community Ceremonies During the Postwar Sunbelt Boom 1951-1954

1950réf. 238291950. The evolution of public and civic ceremonies in Clearwater Florida 1951 to 1954 documenting the ceremonies political activity public institutions youth programs infrastructure projects and residential life through which served critical and symbolic functions in the rapid expansion of Sunbelt cities. George Fulmer photographed Clearwater near the beginning of an extraordinary demographic transformation when the city grew from 15581 residents in 1950 to 34653 in 1960 an increase of 122.4 percent. His assignments record that expansion at street level where campaigns elections welfare organizations public works graduations parades and civic gatherings supplied the institutional framework of a developing Sunbelt community. Photo archive of approximately 94 items comprising 46 silver gelatin photograph prints with 46 corresponding large negatives housed in 12 numbe"red commercial photo studio envelopes bearing manuscript assignment captions Clearwater Florida principally 1951 to 1954. Silver gelatin photograph prints ranging from 4.5 x 2.5" to 5" x 4" and each negative about 4 x 5 inches. Fulmer's photographs show crowds of both men and women registering or voting among curtained booths; men breaking ground for a city water tank; officials planting a camellia at the county courthouse; a large men's banquet and presentation ceremony; a high school graduation with students filling a decorated auditorium stage; young women in performance costumes; and children and teenagers posed outside a local theater. Political assignments include a 1952 Alto Adams gubernatorial campaign rally outside the Bank of Clearwater with women wearing "Alto Adams" hats campaign posters surrounding the speaker's platform and spectators lining the sidewalk; Republican gatherings beneath American flags and a portrait of Abraham Lincoln; and Eisenhower campaign volunteers holding "Eisenhower" and "I like Ike" placards outside a Clearwater business. Another series follows a street parade with marching participants balloons decorated vehicles storefronts and spectators while the envelope is captioned "Youth parade." Fulmer also photographed the Clearwater Welfare Center at 612 where a sign identifies the facility as "Sponsored by the Seventh day Adventist Church" recording a public ceremony at its entrance before an audience of adults and children. The studio envelopes retain captions including "Election day voting" "County court house camellia planting" "Alto Adams for Gov" "Eisenhower for Pres" and "Republican speaker" connecting individual negatives and prints to the assignments under which Fulmer produced them. Clearwater's postwar expansion belongs to the larger redistribution of American population and political influence toward Florida and the Sunbelt but Fulmer's assignments establish that transformation through municipal and community activity. Elections are particularly prominent. In 1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower carried Florida with 544036 votes 55 percent of the statewide total becoming part of a changing political landscape in a state long dominated by Democrats. The gubernatorial photographs belong to the same election year: Alto Adams campaigned for the Democratic nomination in a contest ultimately won by Dan McCarty who became governor in January 1953 while contemporary Florida photographic collections similarly record rallies and campaign activity surrounding that election. Fulmer's numbered envelopes demonstrate the process by which such events entered the local photographic record placing presidential and gubernatorial politics beside voting rooms welfare work school ceremonies youth recreation courthouse landscaping water infrastructure parades and residential scenes. Light handling wear and occasional curling; studio envelopes with expected toning handling wear creasing and manuscript notations. Overall in good condition. unknown