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Listen: The Assorted Selections ProgramKoreshan Julius Koester sitting next to an alligator in Estero, Florida.
Image Number
KOR0948
Date Note
Photographed on February 20, 1918.
Rights
Collection
Koreshan Unity collection
N2009- 3, Papers, ca 1887-1990; Box 2, folder 12
N2009- 3, Papers, ca 1887-1990; Box 2, folder 12
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Subject Term
Personal Subjects
Corporate Subject
Physical Description
1 photoprint - b&w - 4 x 5 in.
General Note
Accompanying note: "Julius Koester and the alligator Brother Charlie Hunt shot. It came up under the bank where I was standing, in a white dress on 'the point' in the park, and I went after Brother Charlie to dispatch it."
Biographical Note
Julius, also known as Caesar, was born November 15, 1895 in Muscatine, Iowa. He died July 1980 in Florida.
Koreshan Julius Koester sitting next to an alligator in Estero, Florida.
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