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Charles and Isabella Peacock, original owners of the Bay View House, closed the Grove's first hotel in 1902 due to Charles' poor health Ralph Munroe opened Camp Biscayne soon after to offer an alternative to Grove visitors. Pleasant climate, boating…

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Fifty pound king fish and Spanish mackerel

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The photographs were not only the reflection of an aesthetic appreciation of the new land but were also used to study and document the tropical flora and fauna. Some of this work appeared in an 1886 article of the Evening Post which depicted…

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Images are set within the "new" tropical landscape. The Munroe collection includes many photographs of natural and pristine Florida scenery before its rapid urbanization.
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