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Image Number
Photographer
Date
Rights
Collection
N2011- 7, Photographic collection, 1930s-1970s; Box 13
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Community culture--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Entertainment
Service industries--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Tourism--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Attractions--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Halls of fame--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Amusements--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Circus in art
Miniature objects
Models and modelmaking
Amusement rides--Models
Women--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Art objects
Corporate Subject
Physical Description
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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