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Lowell Showalter Photograph Collection, Circa 1922-1957

 

Summary

Extent:
1 Folder
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Lowell Showalter Collection, Broward County Historical Archives, Broward County Library.

Background

Scope and content:

The Lowell Showalter Collection contains photographs that document real estate development in South Florida. The photographs include aerial photographs of the development of the intracoastal waterway. Also included are images of houses and plots being developed in the 1930s. It also includes a photographs of local agriculture in the 1920s.

Biographical / historical:

Lowell Everest Showalter was born on July 25, 1940 in Pulaski, Ohio. He moved to South Florida after graduating high school in Ohio, and he served in the Army Reserves as a Military Police Procedures Instructor. Later in life he became a Nursery Supervisor with Broward County, where he was integral in distributing and planting several seedlings from Gulf Coast's Friendship Oak tree in public spaces. He was a Horticultural Aborist with leadership over the City of Boca Raton Beautification Division, a member of the Broward County Historical Commission, and a member of Plantation's Landscape Planning and Review Board. He was to married Barbara Danielson Showalter, and had five children. Lowell died on October 10, 2006 in Diamondhead, Mississippi.

Acquisition information:
Lowell Showalter donated the materials to the Broward County Historical Commission on October 1, 1992 (BCHA-1992.15). Showalter donated an accrual on March 16, 1993 (Accession BCHA-1993.14).
Processing information:

This collection received container level processing. This finding aid may be updated to reflect new descriptions as well as acquisitions to the collection.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Lowell Showalter Collection is open for research.

Preferred citation:

Lowell Showalter Collection, Broward County Historical Archives, Broward County Library.

Location of this collection:
Broward County Historical Archives, Broward County Library
100 S. Andrews Avenue
Fort Lauderdale
FL
33301
USA