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Listen: The Bluegrass & Old-Time ProgramClose-up view showing Spanish Renaissance architecture at the Hotel Ponce de Leon in St. Augustine, Florida.
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Collection
N2011- 7, Photographic collection, 1930s-1970s; Box 11
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General Note
Built by Henry M. Flagler and opened in 1888. The hotel was closed in 1967 and sold to Flagler College. It was later added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and then it became a U.S. National Historic Landmark on February 21, 2006.
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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