Postcards

Postcards from the 1920s and 1930s

The following postcard format photographs were taken by Jesse S. Wooley on winter trips to Florida taken in the 1920s and 1930s. They are loosely organized below according to their location and when they were taken. Additional photographs are included in the Floyd and Marion Rinhart Collection included in the Special Collections Department at the University of Miami's Otto G. Richter Library.

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1. Alhambra Entrance to Coral Gables

2. Miami-Biltmore Hotel-Facing Coral Gables Golf Course

3. Marion on the Gulf at Clearwater Beach Apr. 10, 1935

4. Ent. to the "A.-F." School Cocoanut Grove-Miami Feb. 22-31

5. The Buick at Miami-Biltmore Hotel & Fountain from Ponce-de-Leon Circle Coral Gables

6. Queer Roots of the Mangrove Tree, Tahati Beach Miami

7. In the Venetian Pool Coral Gables

8. Daytona-Bethune-Cookman Industrial School.-Mrs. Bethune the Founder-Colored

9. 600 Acres of Potatoes in the Everglades near Miami in Muck Soil

10. Everglades & Drainage Canal from Tamiami Trail

11. Gulf of Mexico Atlantic Ocean Auto Bridge Feb. 24-32
One of these Concrete Viaducts is 7 Miles Long

12. Buying Oranges & Grapefruit at the Grove, Homestead Fla

13. Bayfront Park Miami all Made by Filling In the Bay
Biscayne Blvd 4 Streets Wide-Big Hotels Face this Blv'd

14. Main Business St. in Key West

15. A Very Good Catch for One Day in the Gulf Stream off Miami

16. The Carribean Clipper at Miami-the First 4 Motored "American" Our Party

17. "Hammerhead" Shark 1000lbs. Miami Feb. 23-31

18. 850 lb. "Sun Fish" Caught at Miami

19. Miami Sky Line from Biscayne Bay

20. Pres Roosevelt Coming Down Biscayne Blv'd-(Street Cleared) Apr. 12-34

21. The Cuban Presidential Yacht on a Visit to Miami Apr 13-34

22. The Cuban Cruiser on a call to Miami- for Pan-Am. Day Friday Apr. 13-34

23. A Seminole Indian Mother & Children Preparing Dinner

24. Private "Tea" Served by Sergeant Stanford on Board "H.M.S. Danae" Miami Mch. 4-1932

25. Miami's "Madison Sq. Garden" Where Boxing Fights are held

26. The Kellog Southern Sanitorium at Miami Springs

27. Oriental Architecture At "Opaloca" Miami

28. Entrance to Administration Bldg (Moorish Type) Opa-Locka Miami Suburb

29. Mirror Lake St. Pete & Tampa Bay from the Blimp

30. Plane in front of P.O St. Pete that carried the First Air Mail Direct to N.Y.

31. Old Mammy Feeding Peacocks at Peacock Farm-120 Birds Here

32. Granada Entrance To Coral Gables

33. The Coliseum Largest Auditorium in Miami at Coral Gables
Douglas Rd. Dividing City of Coral Gables & Miami

34. Dixie Highway Between Daytona and New Smyrna

35. Holly Hill Club at Davenport Fla.
Surrounded by Large Orange Groves
Here is where Ralph Davison own a large orange grove and invested (?) about $18,000