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Representing the consummation of an ideal, there had been built by Mr. and Mrs. John Ringling one of the largest Art Museums in the U. S. The building has 22 side lighted galleries from 40 to 110 ft. long. For the most part the 450 original paintings from every important school from the 13th century to the 19th hang in separate period rooms. 76 life size statues overlook the garden or patio.

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Joseph Janney Steinmetz was a world-renowned commercial photographer whose images appeared in such publications as the Saturday Evening Post, Life, Look, Time, Holiday, Collier's, and Town & Country. His work has been referred to as "an American social history," which documented diverse scenes of American life from affluent northeasterners to middle-class Floridians. Steinmetz moved from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Sarasota, Florida in 1941.