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Duke Merwin, c. 1930
Portrait of Duke Merwin, labeled "unretouched proof, property of Photoreflex Studio." -
Two men in a sailboat, c. 1930
Young men, probably Duke Merwin and Arthur Phillips, on sailboat with a dog. -
Duke Merwin holding a gun on his friends, c. 1930
Duke holds a gun on two friends who feign shock.Tags Firearms -
Black The Druggist, Flagler Avenue, 1920
Black's Drug Store, located just off the corner of Flagler and St. Lucie Avenues, opened in 1920.
In Jan 1921, Samuel Black arrested for dispensing drugs with proper licensing; he was later found guilty, but since no penalty had been specified, he was released. Stanley Kitching's new store was built where Black's drug store had been (set back 35 feet due to the widening of Flagler), and Black reopened his drug store within Kitching's building on the ground floor, with a soda fountain. In 1923, Black and his family moved to Hollywood Florida and opened Hollywood Drug Company, which existed for decades.
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Laura Upthegrove and John Ashley, 1921
Laura Upthegrove and John Henry Ashley embracing.
Low quality digital image.Tags Ashley Gang -
John Ashley in cowboy costume, c. 1920
John Henry Ashley in a cowboy outfit.
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Perle S. Thomas and family, c. 1921
-Mother Lamyra Williams Thomas, Vedder Thomas, baby Elizabeth held by her father Perle Thomas, and oldest son Otho Thomas.
-Interior of the Thomas Grocerteria, located on the ground floor of the Crystal Palace in Fort Pierce (opened 1921).
-Portrait of Perle Sylvester Thomas (1883-1927). In 1927, Thomas was murdered by U.S. Border Patrol Inspectors when they were conducting illegal search stops, saying they were looking for illegal immigrants. The agents were in an unmarked car, flagging down motorists on Dixie Highway at night. After Thomas did not stop, they followed him and fired into the car. Three of federal agents were arrested immediately and found guilty after a trial. Fred Brownlee of Hobe Sound, was given the death penalty (commuted to 8 years in prison in 1934 and he was released in 1938) and two others found guilty of second degree murder and given life in prison (they were paroled in 1930).
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Edna Ashley, c. 1925
Portrait of Edna Gloeckler Ashley. -
Alligator and child in palmetto grove, c. 1924
Alligator poised to attack a crying black infant in a palmetto grove. Quatrain poem on postcard uses racist and exaggerated mock dialect "I'm just scairt as I can be, I'm 'fraid this 'gater's goin' to get me, Oh, mammy, come and get me soon Or you wont have no little coon." Beautiful Florida Series postcard. -
Train through orange grove, c. 1920
Midwinter scene with passengers on the back of a railroad train as it passes through an orange grove. Florida Artistic Series postcard.