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Record Group Number: 900000
Series/Collection Number: M87- 25
Creator: Fishbaugh, William A.
Title, Dates: William A. Fishbaugh photographic collection, 1920-1940.
Amount: 15000 photographs : 8" x 11"
Medium Included: photographs 8" x 11"
Organization/Arrangement: Alphabetical by subject according to the subject filing system of the Florida Photographic Collection.
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Biographical/Historical:     William A. Fishbaugh sold his first photographs while serving in the mounted police during the Boer War in South Africa and later in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War. Upon leaving the service in 1910, he opened a photographic studio in Tampa, Florida. In 1920 he moved the studio to Miami, where he did commercial photography for Miami Beach developer Carl Fisher and later for Coral Gables developer George Merrick. Fishbaugh continued photographing the Miami area until shortly before his death in the early 1950s.
Summary:     The collection contains photographs taken by William A. Fishbaugh that document the development of Coral Gables and Miami in the first half of the twentieth century. Images of Coral Gables include the Miami Biltmore, early town houses in several ethnic motifs, single family dwellings, street scenes, and individual businesses. Images of Miami include construction of some early skyscrapers, hotels, and other businesses, as well as many street scenes.

    Also included in the collection, and available upon request, are about 100 "circuit" negatives and prints.  These images are 10" high and 60" wide and were produced using a "circuit" or panoramic camera.
Finding Aids: Three volumes of dated assignment books. 0
Additional Physical Form: Select images from this collection have been digitized and are available on the Florida Memory web site: https://www.floridamemory.com/discover/photographs/
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Associated Materials: Some later negatives were given to the Miami Dade Public Library.
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Ownership/Custodial History: Original Fishbaugh nitrate negatives were given to the Florida Photographic Collection at a time when the collection was housed in an un-airconditioned upper floor of Dodd Hall, Florida State University.  To avert the possibility of spontaneous combustion of the nitrate negatives, prints were made of the most valuable images, and the negatives were destroyed.
Fishbaugh prints comprising collection M87-25 were interfiled in the photograph subject files of the Florida Photographic Collection.
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Electronic Records Access: https://www.floridamemory.com/discover/photographs/
Subject Access Fields: Fishbaugh, William A.
Commercial photography
Photography
Photographs. aat
Coral Gables (Fla.)
Miami (Fla.)
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