Tamiami Trail, Florida, circa 1933
THF200203 / Tamiami Trail, Florida, circa 1933
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Artifact Overview
The Taimiami Trail stretches across the southern portion of the Floridian peninsula. Immense marshes and cypress forests stalled completion of the highway for many years. This photograph -- with a caption praising the "splendid highway" that was "successfully thrust through the mysterious Everglades" -- shows the Tamiami Trail in use about five years after it officially opened in 1928.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
circa 1933
Creators
Creator Notes
Originally photographed for Publishers' Photo Service.
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
P.189.11638
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Linen (Material)
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 7.5 in
Width: 11.5 in
Inscriptions
Text under image reads:
TAMIAMI TRAIL / @Publishers' Photo Service / From the Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico this splendid highway has been successfully thrust / through the mysterious Everglades. The drainage canal that parallels the Trail is alive with / small fish and frequently many feathered migrants charm the eye of the traveler.
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