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Stanley J. Morrow photographic collection, 1882-1886.
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175.00 item Glass negatives 5" x 7"
Medium Included:
photographs 5" x 7"
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Biographical/Historical:
Stanley J. Morrow (1843-1921) was born in Wisconsin and first learned photography as a young member of the Seventh Wisconsin Infantry during the Civil War. While Morrow was stationed at Camp Lookout, Maryland, famed Civil War photographer Mathew Brady visited the site and Morrow became interested in Brady's work. Working as a volunteer assistant to Brady, Morrow learned photography using the wet plate process. After the war, Morrow returned to Wisconsin, married Ida A. Ketchum, and moved to Yankton in the Dakota Territory. He opened the first "photograph gallery" in that area and traveled throughout the Dakota Territory and Upper Missouri taking photographs while his wife ran the gallery at home.
In 1882, Morrow moved to Orlando, Florida, for his wife's health. There Morrow photographed the central Florida area for the South Florida Railroad to attract tourists and businesses to use the railroad. When Morrow moved to Atlanta, Georgia, he lost all his western negatives in shipment and he never recovered them. Morrow later learned that a Jacksonville photographer had bought the negatives for $10 at an unclaimed property sale. Morrow sued for the return of the negatives, but while the case was pending, fire destroyed the business district of Jacksonville, also destroying the negatives.
Fortunately, Morrow retained prints of many of the negatives. These passed to his wife upon his death in Dallas, Texas on December 10, 1921. Ida died in 1927, and nine years later their son, Earl S. Morrow, gave over 300 of the western prints to the University of South Dakota Museum. In 1945, Earl Morrow's widow gave 175 Florida negatives to the Florida State College for Women (now Florida State University), where they became one of the founding collections of the Florida Photographic Collection in 1952.
Summary:
This collection consists of 175 glass negatives of Florida scenes taken by Stanley J. Morrow for the South Florida Railroad. The images depict street scenes along the railroad line, including Orlando, Sanford, Kissimmee, Silver Springs, Saint Augustine, Maitland, Tavares, Winter Park, and Tampa. The collection includes views of alligators, ox-carts, oranges, grapefruit, moss-draped oaks, and cypress and palm trees.
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Associated Materials:
For more of Stanley J. Morrow's images of Florida, see Collection M88-52, the Stanley J. Morrow St. Augustine Photographic Collection, circa 1880s (7 photographs). The W.H. Over Museum, University of South Dakota, houses the Morrow Collection of the approximately 300 prints donated by Earl S. Morrow, and the National Anthropological Archives, Museum of Natural History, has copies of the original prints.
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Ownership/Custodial History:
These negatives were given to the Florida State College for Women (now Florida State University) by Mrs. Earl Morrow (Stanley J. Morrow's daughter-in-law) in 1945 and were transferred to the Florida Photographic Collection ca. 1953.
Publication Note:
Six Morrow photographs from the Crook expedition were published in "Way Out West: The Story of Stanley J. Morrow, A Pioneer Photographer in Every Sense of the Word," in Coronet Magazine, April 1939, pp. 147-153.
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Subject Access Fields:
Morrow, Stanley J.
Photography
Photographs. aat Negatives. aat
Kissimmee (Fla.) Maitland (Fla.) Orlando (Fla.) Saint Augustine (Fla.) Sanford (Fla.) Silver Springs (Fla.) Tampa (Fla.) Tavares (Fla.) Winter Park (Fla.)
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