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Listen: The Folk ProgramSnack bar at the Warm Mineral Springs attraction in North Port, Florida.
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Photographer
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Rights
Collection
N2011- 7, Photographic collection, 1930s-1970s; Box 11
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Physical Description
General Note
Warm Mineral Springs, called the original Fountain of Youth sought by Ponce de Leon, is the warmest of Florida's springs. It's year-round temperature is 87 degrees and the water flows at a rate of 17,000 gallons every three minutes. The attraction functioned as a spa and afterwards served as an important geological and archaeological site. It was later added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on November 28, 1977.
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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