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Listen: The Latin ProgramYoung women reading aboard the shantyboat "Lazy Bones".
Image Number
Photographer
Date
Rights
Collection
N2011- 7, Photographic collection, 1930s-1970s; Box 4
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Personal Subjects
Corporate Subject
Physical Description
General Note
Photographed during a shanty boat cruise from Ft. Myers to Clewiston between December 28, 1947 and January 6, 1948.
Accompanying note: "Stateroom interior showing compact but comfortable bunks".
Identified in the top bunk is Helen Schoonover and in the lower bunk is the photographer's daughter Lois Duncan Steinmetz.
Biographical Note
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.
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