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Listen: The Folk ProgramView showing flamingos at the Sarasota Jungle Gardens attraction.
Image Number
COM03412
Photographer
Florida. - Division of Tourism.
Date
1986
Date Note
Photographed in December 1986.
Rights
Collection
Department of Commerce collection
Series/Collection number: S 1047, Publicity photographs, 1940-1996 ; Box 2, FF20
Series/Collection number: S 1047, Publicity photographs, 1940-1996 ; Box 2, FF20
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Subject Term
Physical Description
1 slide - col.
General Note
In the early 1930s, David Breed Lindsay, a local newspaperman, purchased 10 acres of swampy banana grove to create a botanical gardens. Beginning in 1936, admission fees were charged and in the late 1940s, Jungle Gardens was sold to the philanthropic Allyn family.
View showing flamingos at the Sarasota Jungle Gardens attraction.
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