Sunbelt Expansion, pt. 2 (23368)

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Photo archive of 43 items including 21 silver gelatin photographs and 22 large format negatives measuring 5 x 4 inches, with prints averaging 5 x 3.5 inches, Clearwater and Tampa Bay area, May 1951 and circa 1950s. Many prints have correlating negatives while some negatives contain unique images. Contained in six original studio envelopes which identify "Bombers Hunter," dated May 1951; "oil on beach"; "Tampa vs St Pete"; "Stone Malcolm N. 1374 Pinbrick Dr."; and an Eckerd Drug Co. packet with a Paul Harris note requesting pictures of glasses with reflections to show their fronts. Many negatives original snapshots while most duplicate the gelatin photographs. Baseball scenes include uniformed men at a fenced night field, a Bombers runner rounding a base under floodlights, a player pointing toward the infield, teammates walking off near spectators, and men steadying a figure beside fencing where one uniform back reads "Sporting Good." Racetrack views show a jockey in silks receiving a presentation object from a well dressed woman and a bow tied man, standing with a pale horse at the rail, and riding near a tote board, finish markers, and a large American flag. The beach oil assignment records dark mats and streaks at the surf line, a woman scraping or sampling material from wet sand, a bridge or pier over shallow water, and a black globular mass tangled with seaweed and beach debris. Specialty work includes aviator sunglasses on draped fabric with circular lens reflections; an older couple seated before shelves of cut glass, bowls, decanters, and small trophies at the Malcolm N. Stone address; a decorative bouquet print; and an "An Hieroglyphic Epistle" panel. The baseball work is especially notable as wartime and immediate postwar Americans treated the game as public morale and community life. Fulmer brings that national appetite down to Tampa Bay local play: Tampa versus St. Pete, a Bombers assignment dated May 1951, uniforms, floodlights, crowd fencing, and players moving through the dust of a Florida ballfield. Another shows "Captain Deck[s] +Boat" and depicts five men docking a row boat, and another image of a likely grandfather and granddaughter posing as the man wears a souvenir style tee-shirt reading "New Port Richey Florida."

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