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City ball park, facing North Broadway.
Softball field was the round white area, left center.
Seaboard Air Line Railway tracks bisect the photo in the lower left quadrant, with a spur line curving off to the south.
Two cylindrical and several rectangular Phillips 66 storage tanks between the two lines of track.
Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company station at far left, on the west side of Broadway.
Lockwood Oil Company in the lower left quadrant near the curving rails.
North Broadway runs diagonally from left to upper right. The highway divides as it approaches the Van Fleet intersection.
Upper left quadrant (above North Broadway) L-R : The American Legion home, Hughes Field Armory, the original District 1, State Road Board headquarters building.
National Guard caretakers home is behind the American Legion home.

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Aerial view of Bartow. 1950 (circa). State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/117865>, accessed 1 July 2025.
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Aerial view of Bartow. 1950 (circa). State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/117865>
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