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Listen: The World ProgramAlhambra Water Tower in Coral Gables.
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Collection
Fishbaugh collection, Fishbaugh, William A Photographic collection, M87-25
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General Note
Built in 1924. Purchased by Consumers Water Company in 1926 and used as part of the City's domestic water supply system until 1931. In response to citizen outcry to save the tower from demolition, the City purchased it for a token sum in 1958. The Alhambra Water Tower was later listed in the Coral Gables Register of Historic Places in 1988.
Biographical Note
William A. Fishbaugh sold his first photographs while serving in the mounted police during the Boer War and later in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War. Upon leaving the service in 1910, he opened a photographic studio in Tampa. In 1920 he moved the studio to Miami, where he did commercial photography for Miami Beach developer Carl Fisher and later for Coral Gables developer George Merrick. Fishbaugh continued photographing the Miami area until shortly before his death in 1950.
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