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N2011- 7, Photographic collection, 1930s-1970s; Box 23
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Original Sun Debs organized in 1949. Girls participating were used in beach pictures distributed locally & nationally. All of the girls received basic modeling training.
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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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Steinmetz, Lois Foley, d. 1968. Joe Steinmetz during a shoot for the Sarasota Sun-Debs - Lido Beach, Florida. 1949 (circa). State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/254642>, accessed 9 November 2024.
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Steinmetz, Lois Foley, d. 1968. Joe Steinmetz during a shoot for the Sarasota Sun-Debs - Lido Beach, Florida. 1949 (circa). State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 9 Nov. 2024.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/254642>
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(State Archives of Florida/Steinmetz)