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General Note
In the early 1930s, David Breed Lindsay, a local newspaperman, purchased 10 acres of swampy banana grove to create a botanical gardens. Beginning in 1936, admission fees were charged and in the late 1940s, Jungle Gardens was sold to the philanthropic Allyn family.
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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