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Guests around table at Sunrise Inn pool, c. 1955
Group of people gathered around a table near the pool at the Sunrise Inn in Port Sewall. -
P.O. Thomas ranch, 1960
P.O. Thomas and another man with cattle. Thomas purchased twenty Aberdeen-Angus cows for his ranch in the St. Lucie Farms section. -
P.O. Thomas ranch, 1960
P.O. Thomas and another man with cattle. Thomas purchased twenty Aberdeen-Angus cows for his ranch in the St. Lucie Farms section. -
Boat Candie Kidd, c. 1952
Drift fishing boat Candie Kidd and men-probably the boatyard crew. Envelope labeled "Saley's boatyard, Candie Kidd boat lengthing [?] often" -
Man chased up a palm, 1936
Black man chased up a palm tree by a large alligator. Caption on postcard uses racist and exaggerated mock dialect: "’Honey, Come Down,' We'se waitin fo' you in Florida.’” Similar postcard made with a black baby chased up a tree by an alligator as well. -
Alligators attacking, c. 1940
Two alligators chase and bite at a black man. Racist caption on postcard reads "A Darkies Prayer" and uses racist and exaggerated mock dialect. -
Man eating alligator, c. 1934
An alligator eats a black man in the Florida Everglades. Racist and dehumanizing gallows humor used in caption: "Free lunch in the Everglades, Florida." -
In front of log cabin, c. 1930
Woman, seven children and a dog pose in front of a small log cabin house. Beautiful Florida Series postcard. -
Child with banana bunch, c. 1936
Young black boy poses next to a bunch of bananas on a tree. Racist caption on back of postcard reads "The banana is not a fruit of a tree but of a giant herb, which, in the tropics, attains the height of 40 feet and leaves of a foot wide and 6 to 10 feet long. A large flower bud of small, purple flowers appears, each flower developing into a small banana pointing upward. Fully as popular with the small darkie as the watermelon wine, the banana coaxes a smile from the little black boy, who pokes his kinky head through a large leaf." -
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.