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Sunday school class, 1914
Group of young girls under a coconut tree. Handwritten on back: "This is Edna's Sunday school class and teacher got a little mark on Edna's head." Edna Winifred Roebuck Platt (1900-1984) -
Sunday school class, 1914
Group of young girls under a coconut tree. Handwritten on back of similar photo: "This is Edna's Sunday school class." Edna Winifred Roebuck Platt (1900-1984)Tags Sunday schools -
Thatched hut in forest, c. 1920
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The Henderson brothers, everglades surveying crew members, 1913
Three men in hats, part of the team surveying the everglades. The Henderson brothers, Randall, Bill, and Bud.
The Everglades Drainage District was established in 1913 (Ch. 6456, 1913 Laws) for the purpose of draining and reclaiming lands located near the Everglades. To carry out this mandate, Florida Everglades Engineering Commission was established and the everglades was surveyed from 12 May 1913 to about 25 July 1913 in preparation for a drainage system being imposed. The Northern Survey group, led by George B. Hills, went from the Atlantic to Lake Okeechobee via the Loxahachee Slough, also surveying Lake Okeechobee. The second group, the Southern Survey, was led by J.B. Phinney, assisted by J.A. Moore. Their intent was to establish the southern limit of the Everglades; this was split into two parties, a main one to run a transit and level line and the auxiliary party running "offsets" up and down to get information about the limits of fresh and salt water in the Big Cypress. This series of images is probably the auxiliary group and includes, according to an article in the Miami News (1913-07-28), J.A. Moore (chief); E. Hendrickson and Ned Pynchon (instrument men); W.W. Meyers; brothers Randall, Bill, and Bud (Daniel) Henderson; A.A. Bennet; L.V. Darling; F.A. Mathis; H.L. Capplenen; and H. Thalmer.
Published in Lawrence E. Will's book Okeechobee Catfishing (Glade Historical Society, 1965), p. 141, with the caption: "The Henderson Brothers, Rand, Bill and Bud, while on the George B. Hills Survey Party through the Everglades from West Palm Beach to Canal Point in 1913. Bill was one for the Possemen killed by the Rice Gang at Jewfish Bridge in 1916." -
The Liberty's Stinger, c. 1953
The Air Force Missile Test Center's exhibition missile, the Liberty's Stinger, which displayed at several events in Florida.Tags Missiles -
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Three girls, c. 1925
Three unsmiling girls. On the right is Elizabeth Frazier Murray (1914-1985).Tags Children -
Three women, c. 1945
Three women. Middle person is Josie Elizabeth Roebuck Frazier (1891-1980). -
Three young girls, c. 1900
Three girls. The leftmost girl is probably Flossie A Byrd Wann (1892-1960) -
