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Photo archive of 49 items, including 11 silver gelatin photographs and 29 large format negatives approximately 4" x 5", Clearwater, Florida, circa 1950s. Downtown parade routes pass McCrory's, Fussell's Drug Store, Jay W. Cavellier Optician, Purelube, Sinclair, Gulf, and other storefronts, with spectators lining sidewalks beside parked midcentury automobiles. Women occupy much of the ceremonial foreground: a crowned older woman sits in a satin gown and cape before large floral arrangements; young attendants and adult women pose beneath bunting and a star flag; and a Miami Chpater of Women of the Moose float carries seated women around a small shrine-like structure. Moose floats advertise "Mooseheart, Home for Our Widows and Children," "Moosehaven, Home for Our Old Folks," "Little Lodge with a Big Heart," and "On Way to Moosehaven, Orange Park, Fla." Additional convention scenes include men in Moose caps and light suits shaking hands before a mural, a speaker addressing seated officers from a stage extend the same civic setting through veterans, color guards, marching bands, baton twirlers, children carrying American flags, drum corps, honor guards, and majorettes moving down palm lined streets.

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."

Photo archive of 45 items, including 19 silver gelatin photographs, and 26 large scale negatives of many original images, ranging from 3.5 x 5 inches to 4 x 5 inches, contained in 14 annotated studio job envelopes, Clearwater and Pinellas County, Florida, 1951 to 1952. The envelopes identify dated assignments for Francis Paint Store, Y B Refrigeration, Rehbaum Display, Floor Center, Daniels Electric, Kenson Supply, a Flower Show at the Clearwater Civic Center, and Charles R. Fischer's real estate office, with several descriptions reading "Home Show," "Home Show Booth," or "Home Show Board." Charles R. Fischer's brick storefront appears with a projecting sidewalk canopy, a hanging sign reading "Charles R. Fischer Real Estate Appraisals," window cards advertising property listings, and three men in matching dark shirts and white slacks positioned on the bench, sidewalk, and doorway. The home show interiors include Daniels Electric Co. at 204 S. Garden Street advertising fixtures, contract wiring, electric heating, and Wesix "Wiredheat"; Rehbaum's Kelvinator Maytag booth with refrigerators, washers, stoves, and a "House of Gifts" display; flooring and paint booths with sample boards, cans, placards, and counters; and an athletic scoreboard overhead in the exhibition hall. The residential scenes record one story ranch houses with low rooflines, attached garages, broad windows, concrete drives, sparse new lawns, palm trees, patio umbrellas, screened porches, and backyard service areas, while the flower and table setting assignments include folding screens, draped fabric, "Section B" and "Class 4" placards, potted tropical plants, formal place settings, glassware, and checkerboard flooring.

Photo archive of 70 items including 34 silver gelatin photographs with 36 corresponding and original large format negatives and 15 studio sleeves with some annotations, ranging from 3" x 5" to 4" x 5", Clearwater, Florida, circa early 1950s. Storefronts and signs identify Billie Moran Hair Stylist, Spotlite Cleaners Launderette, Family Loan Co. Loans, Lane's Pharmacy, Harris Drive In Pharmacy, and a downtown block with the Capitol Theatre marquee and McCrory's along a traffic-filled street. Other scenes include audio equipment demonstations, musicians performing before seated audiences, children handling rabbits, a youth band rehearsal, commercial laundry workers, golfers near a clubhouse, and staged presentation or prize events. Original sleeves stengthen the local identification, with handwritten client names, addresses, dates, and job numbers including "Postal Office U.S. Post Office," "P.G.A. Clinic," "Family Loan Office," "Lane Pharm," "Harris Pharmacy," and "Helpy Selfy Laundry." More scenes place people inside the social and commercial interiors of the city: a woman stands before a seated audience in a hall draped with streamers; children and an adult handle rabbits in what appears to be a club or youth program setting; a school band director leans into a room packed with young musicians and music stands; workers stand at wash stations in a commercial laundry; golfers pose and shake hands near a clubhouse; a woman and man stand on a small platform before a seated crowd during what appears to be a staged presentation or prize event.