Collier County Museums Historic Photo Archive | Everglades City, FL

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

81.10.6

Interior of the Rod & Gun Club in Everglades City.  Includes part of the lounge or lobby with an alligator hide displayed on the wall.  Manager, Claus "Snooky" Senghaas shown second from the right, chatting with a guest, c1947.

81.10.11

Interior of the Rod & Gun Club in Everglades City, c1950.  Includes part of the lounge and lobby area with alligator hide, panther pelt, rifles and wildlife trophies mounted on walls.

81.10.16

Rod & Gun Club dining room, Everglades City, c1950.

91.18.8

D. Graham Copeland standing in the front yard of his Everglades City home. The handwritten caption across the top of the photo reads " Front entrance Copeland residence Everglades 1930."

80.99.6

On the dock behind the Rod and Gun Club in Everglades City, c1950s.

81.14.10

Flooding and storm damage in Everglades City during hurricane of September 1926. 

80.98.7

Aerial view of airport under construction in Everglades City looking east, 1953. 

87.71.8

Invitation to Margaret Scott from the Collier Development Corporation to attend a dinner honoring officers, staff & cast of Schulberg Productions, Inc. on location for "Across the Everglades" at the Rod & Gun Club, Everglades, Florida, Monday, 27 January 1958, half past seven o'clock.

Warner Brothers and Schulberg Productions, Inc. released the film Wind Across the Everglades in 1958.  It starred Burl Ives, Christopher Plummer and Gypsy Rose Lee.  Collier County residents Loren "Totch" Brown and Cory Osecola had minor roles in the feature. 

87.71.35

Invitation to Mrs. Elbert A. Read's retirement dinner from the Manhattan Mercantile Corporation (1926-1958) at the Rod and Gun Club on September 10, 1958 at 7:30pm.  Menu and guest list included. 

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Aerial view of Everglades City in January 1956.  Photographed by University of Miami R.O.T.C.

93.56.11

Letter from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Claus "Snooky" Senghaas dated April 5, 1949. 

80.41.1

The dredge, Barcarmil, pictured in background left, was used to pump the fill it dredged from widening the river onto the townsite of  Everglades (City).  Named for Barron Collier's three sons, Barron, Carnes and Miles, it operated 20 hours a day from 1926 to 1929.

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View of downtown Everglades City with Administration Building in center and automobile traffic, c1930-40s.

80.97.10

Caged monkey which was displayed in downtown Everglades City in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

81.16.23

River front view of the Storter home, warehouse and store in Everglades City, c1917.  Barron River in foreground.  The home was later converted to the Rod & Gun Club.

09.14.1

Interior of the Everglades Model Steam Laundry, circa 1927 - 1933.

The commercial laundry offered wet and dry cleaning, dying, alterations and custom tailoring. The Collier Company leased the building to T. M. Sellars, a dry cleaning businessman from St. Louis, MO, who moved from Ft. Myers to Everglades in 1926. The laundry opened October 27, 1927. Today, the laundry is a branch facility of the Collier County Museums. The Museum of the Everglades opened to the public in April 1998.

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Interior of the Everglades Model Steam Laundry, 1929.

The commercial laundry offered wet and dry cleaning, dying, alterations and custom tailoring. The Collier Company leased the building to T. M. Sellars, a dry cleaning businessman from St. Louis, MO, who moved from Ft. Myers to Everglades in 1926. The laundry opened October 27, 1927. Today, the laundry is a branch facility of the Collier County Museums. The Museum of the Everglades opened to the public in April 1998.

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Interior of the Everglades Model Steam Laundry customer drop off and pick up area, 1929.  

The commercial laundry offered wet and dry cleaning, dying, alterations and custom tailoring.  The Collier Company leased the building to T. M. Sellars, a dry cleaning businessman from St. Louis, MO, who moved from Ft. Myers to Everglades in 1926.  The laundry opened October 27, 1927.  Today, the laundry is a branch facility of the Collier County Museums.  The Museum of the Everglades opened to the public in April 1998.

06.24.1

Rachel Wilson - first president of the Womens Club.  The Everglades City laundry (present day Museum of the Everglades) was purchased through efforts by the Everglades Womens Club.

13.9.1 E City map 1950s

1950s map of the town of Everglades City.

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