Collier County Museums Historic Photo Archive | Everglades City, FL

This album contains historic images and documents from Everglades City, FL.

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50th anniversary of Collier County (1973) in Everglades City.  L to R: Totch Brown, Forest Walker, Charlie McKinney, Dan House, Robert Storter and Meese Ellis. 

Courtesy of Lucy House Storter. 

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Front view of Everglades High School in Everglades City. 

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Workers constructing a one-story building addition to the Everglades High School in Everglades City.  The addition housed the city's elementary school.

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Collier County News article from January 21, 1949 "New Everglades School Ready for Classes Monday". 

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The Rod & Gun Club (center right) in Everglades City, looking north from the top floor of the Post Office building with water tank on the far right, and the Barron River on the left.

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The waterfront and construction bulkhead at Everglades City.

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The Everglades Inn (right) on Broadway West in Everglades City, looking south, and showing the Manhattan Mercantile Dry Goods Store located on the ground floor.

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Interior of the Manhattan Mercantile Corporation Drug Store, located on the ground floor of the Everglades Inn on Broadway West in Everglades City. The pharmacy is on the left, with the marble top counter and soda fountain on the right.

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Downtown Everglades City, looking east along Broadway from the top floor of the Post Office building. Shows (right from bottom to top of photo): the Everglades Inn, Everglades Community Center, Central Garage, and Jail. The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Station in the distance. Bank of Everglades, center left, and County Courthouse, top left.

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The Everglades Inn (right) on Broadway West in Everglades City, showing the hotel entrance and the Everglades Club community center on the far left.

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A two-story wooden frame house and outbuildings along the Barron River in Everglades City, as viewed from across the water. The original caption reads "Hiram Stephens House On Site of Present Kingston Cottage Across from Rod & Gun Club ( Now Charlie Boggess)." Photograph taken c1925.

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A black workman with a handcart loading crates of tomatoes into a railroad boxcar for shipment. The loading dock and packing house are on the right. The original handwritten caption reads "Loading house." Believed to be photographed at Carnestown in Everglades City.

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Unidentified location in Everglades City, c1920s.

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The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad station in Everglades City at the terminus of Broadway East, looking due east, with a freight train pulling into the station.

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The drafting and payroll offices building in Everglades City with striped awnings over the side windows and an unidentified man standing in the doorway.

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The dredge "Barcarmil" under construction at Port DuPont. There is a work crew in the foreground and a fuel tank in the back. Dated August 1926.

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Side view of Glade Cross Mission in Everglades City.

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Juliet Carnes Collier Hospital in Everglades City, c1920s.  Hospital named after Barron G. Collier's (County namesake and founder) wife. 

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Unidentified location in Everglades City, c1920s.

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Handwritten caption on top reads "Latest picture of Deaconess Bedell". Deaconess Harriet Bedell at Glade Cross Mission in Everglades City. The mission's trellis can be seen out the front door on the left. Bedell is seated with patchwork in her lap.

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