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Listen: The Blues ProgramA family on the drawbridge looking up at a costumed Spanish Conquistador - Saint Augustine, Florida.
Image Number
C640044
Photographer
Sweet, Ozzie.
Date
1960 (circa)
Rights
Collection
Department of Commerce collection
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Physical Description
1 photoprint - b&w - 4 x 5 in.
General Note
The Castillo is built of large blocks of a kind of rock called coquina. Coquina was cut in a quarry on nearby Anastasia Island and taken by raft across Matanzas Bay to the site of the Castillo. When cannon balls hit, the walls were not broken, but only dented.
A family on the drawbridge looking up at a costumed Spanish Conquistador - Saint Augustine, Florida.
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