Image Number

Photographer

Date

Date Note

Rights

Collection

Geographic Term

Subject Term

Personal Subjects

Corporate Subject

Physical Description

General Note

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens was officially opened to the public on July 7, 1975. The gardens use approximately 900,000 gallons of water per year, much of it rainwater collected in the cistern or water produced by reverse osmosis.

Identified in the image are Dr. Cal Dodson with Mr. Morgan and an assistant.

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.