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Image Number
Date
Date Note
Collection
N2011- 7, Photographic collection, 1930s-1970s; Box 13
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Community culture--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Entertainment
Attractions--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Amusements
Circus--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Animal feeding
Circus animals--Feeding and feeds
Children--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Giraffe--Feeding and feeds
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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Chicago Manual of Style
Steinmetz, Joseph Janney, 1905-1985. Children feeding giraffe at the Ringling Circus in Sarasota, Florida. 1947. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/253703>, accessed 26 January 2023.
MLA
Steinmetz, Joseph Janney, 1905-1985. Children feeding giraffe at the Ringling Circus in Sarasota, Florida. 1947. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 26 Jan. 2023.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/253703>
AP Style Photo Citation
(State Archives of Florida/Steinmetz)
