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Miami Beach and Marconi wireless station

Title:     

Miami Beach and Marconi wireless station
Description:     The upper photograph shows Miami Beach with the fishing pier extending from Lincoln Road and the early track of Collins Avenue. The lower photo shows the Marconi wireless station built on a bare sandlot just west of the future site of the Roney-Plaza Hotel.  
Subject:      Collins Avenue (Miami Beach, Fla).   Piers.   Radio and television towers.  
Photographer:      Pancoast, Thomas J.
Date:      1915

Repository:     

Special Collections Division. University of Miami Libraries.
Collection:     ASM0636 Richard B. Hoit Photograph Collection.
Box: 2. Folder: 53. Folder Title: Miami Beach, Florida: New Era Beach - Fishing Pier, washed away at the foot of Lincoln Road and Collins Avenue was laid out, sidewalk skirted the Ocean and some original coconut trees removed..
IDItem 3185    File asm06360000250001001
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