Image Number

• JJS1841

Year

• 1977

Date Note

• Photographed in November 1977.

Series Title

• General: Steinmetz collection.
• Specific: Steinmetz collection N2011- 7, Photographic collection, 1930s-1970s; Box 12

General Note

• Accompanying note: "Barbara Lee dog act".

Rights

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Biography 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.

Photographer/Personal Author

• Steinmetz, Joseph Janney, 1905-1985.

Physical Description

• 1 photonegative - b&w - 60 mm.

Subject Term

• Circuses and shows
• Trained animals
• Community culture--Florida--Sarasota
• Entertainment
• Amusements--Florida--Sarasota
• Circus--Florida--Sarasota
• Teenagers--Florida--Sarasota
• Teenage girls--Florida--Sarasota
• High school students--Florida--Sarasota
• Animal specialists
• Animal trainers
• Working dogs
• Circus animals
• Working animals

Geographic Term

• Sarasota County (Fla.)
• Sarasota (Fla.)

Subject Corporate

• Sarasota High School (Sarasota, Fla.)--Students.
• Sailor Circus (Sarasota, Fla.)

Shelf Number

• Location: 30713, C.

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