First auction held for flower growers in Florida. The auction took place in November of 1963 at the Armellini building on US 1. Man and woman in photograph may by the sponsors of the auction, Jack and Barbara Grier.
Florida Kitching Speirs (1884-1970) on the beach with an Essex car, a unidentified man in the back seat. Florida later became the Stuart City Clerk.
No. 8596 recorded in Florida Photographic Concern record book #2 (PDF page 37) "8590-8598 Lyons Beach Scenes, Stuart, L" Undated, but no. 8522 is dated 1923, and no. 8633 is dated 1924, so the date of 1923 is probable. Husband John Alexander Yorkston Speirs died in 1922.
Martin County flower farm with employee in foreground likely planting flower seedlings in an otherwise empty flower bed. Cardboard boxes lined up along the stretch of the flower bed row.
