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Listen: The Bluegrass & Old-Time ProgramAerial view looking northeast over the Ringling Art Museum in Sarasota, Florida.
Image Number
Photographer
Date
Date Note
Collection
N2011- 7, Photographic collection, 1930s-1970s; Box 6
Subject Term
Service industries--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Tourism--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Attractions--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota--Aerial photographs
Public institutions--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota--Aerial photographs
Arts facilities--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota--Aerial photographs
Art museums--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota--Aerial photographs
Aerial photographs
Corporate Subject
Physical Description
General Note
The 1980 Legislature designated the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art at Sarasota as the "official art museum of the state." The museum was bequeathed to the State by John Ringling, of circus fame, and has been operated since 1946 by board of Trustees appointed by the Governor. The trustees are authorized to loan paintings and other objects of art to the Governor's mansion and to schools, libraries and other public buildings where such loans are in the interest of the public.
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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