Showing posts with label florida. Show all posts
Showing posts with label florida. Show all posts

Friday, December 15, 2017

View of an Excavated Burial Ground of Christianized Native Americans From The 1500's/1600's in St. Augustine, Florida (1936/1937)


View of an excavated burial ground of Christianized Native Americans from the 1500's/1600's in St. Augustine, Florida. Photographed inside protective structure in 1936/1937. By Frances Benjamin Johnston.

Source: Library of Congress.

Friday, February 24, 2017

Animated Stereoview Portrait of a Group of Elderly African Americans Said to Have Been Once Owned as Slaves by George Washington (1800's)

 
Animated stereoview portrait of a group of elderly African Americans said to have been once owned as slaves by George Washington titled "Cooks, chambermaids, nurses and one hostler of Gen. Geo. Washington, found in and around St. Augustine, Florida." Possibly a spurious claim. There are also two younger African Americans and a white woman pictured.

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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Confederate Soldiers Posing on a Ramp Leading From the Sally Port Into the Interior of Fort Barrancas With Two Cannon Barrels Which Are About to be Installed on the Ramparts of the Fort (1861)


Confederate soldiers posing on a ramp leading from the sally port into the interior of Fort Barrancas with two cannon barrels which are about to be installed on the ramparts of the fort in Pensacola, Florida, 1861. By Jay Dearborn Edwards. From Miller's Photographic History of the Civil War.

Thursday, January 1, 2015

Seven Views of Confederate Soldiers of the 9th Mississippi Infantry Regiment Posing in Their Camp in Pensacola, Florida (1861)


Confederate soldiers from Company B of the 9th Mississippi Infantry Regiment posing for a photograph. The soldier with a pan in his hand over the campfire has been identified as Kinlock Falconer. Source.






Uncropped version of the above photograph from Miller's Photographic History of the Civil War.

Seven views of Confederate soldiers from the 9th Mississippi Infantry Regiment posing in their camp in Pensacola, Florida, 1861. By Jay Dearborn Edwards.

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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Calotype View of Workers Standing on a Cast Iron Lighthouse Assembled Temporarily at the Foundry Where it Was Created in Philadelphia Before Its Shipment For Installation on Carysfort Reef in Florida (1849)


Calotype view of workers standing on a cast iron lighthouse assembled temporarily at the foundry where it was created in Philadelphia before its shipment for installation on Carysfort Reef in Florida, August 2, 1849. By the Langenheim brothers.

Source.
Wikipedia entry.