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Listen: The Bluegrass & Old-Time ProgramView showing crane on site during demolition of John Ringling's Ritz-Carlton Hotel at the southern tip of Longboat Key.
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Photographer
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Collection
N2011- 7, Photographic collection, 1930s-1970s; Box 12
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General Note
John Ringling began construction of the Ritz Carlton in 1926. Hard economic times forced Ringling to shut down the project and it was later demolished in 1964.
Biographical Note
Joseph Janney Steinmetz was a world-renowned commercial photographer whose images appeared in such publications as the Saturday Evening Post, Life, Look, Time, Holiday, Collier's, and Town & Country. His work has been referred to as "an American social history," which documented diverse scenes of American life from affluent northeasterners to middle-class Floridians. Steinmetz moved from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Sarasota, Florida in 1941.
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