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	Record Group Number:	900000
	Series/Collection Number:	M82- 78
	Creator:	Johnson, Malcolm B.
	Title, Dates:	Dale Mabry Airfield and Jackson Bluff Hydroplant opening photographs, 1927-1930.
	Amount:	27 photographs
	Medium Included:	photographs 8" x 10"
	Organization/Arrangement:	Unarranged.
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	Biographical/Historical:	Malcolm B. Johnson was the Executive Editor of the Tallahassee Democrat from 1954 to 1978, writing a daily column called "I Declare" and editorials. He was born in Wardner, Idaho, and his family homesteaded in Alberta, Canada, before moving to Jacksonville, Florida. Johnson received a degree in Journalism from the University of Florida in 1936. He worked for the Jacksonville Journal and the Daytona Beach Sun-Record before moving to Tallahassee in 1937. In Tallahassee, Johnson covered home-front stories during the Second World War. As Executive Editor of the Tallahassee Democrat, Johnson was part of the power elite of Tallahassee, allowing him the opportunity to gather city leaders in his office to determine policy. Some of the many policies to which Johnson contributed were transportation and the development of roads and airports, improving public services in the community, and economic development. However, typical of southern political leaders before the Civil Rights Movement, Johnson had a distaste for the movement towards integration and he criticized and belittled the movement when he could not avoid the topic. Johnson's columns and editorials lead him to establish organizations to improve living conditions in the city. He created the Funders Incorporated to raise money to send children from low-income families to camp. He also created the Upsy Daisy Plant Uplift Society that arranged with landowners to transplant landscape specimens from sites about to be leveled for new roads or other development, which saved thousands of native plants from the bulldozer's blade.
	Summary:	This collection contains photographs taken in Tallahassee, Florida, during the grand opening of Dale Mabry Airfield in 1927 and the Jackson Bluff Hydroplant in 1930. Most of the photos document the opening of the airfield and include images of the attendees such as community leader Lewis Lively, City Manager Bill Galt, President of the Florida State College for Women Dr. Edward Conradi, Congressmen Tom You and R.A. Green, local newspaper reporters Joe Campbell and George Anderson, and newspaper editor John M. Tapers. One photograph depicts the opening of the Jackson Bluff Hydroplant by the Tallahassee Rotary Club. Also included in the collection is a photograph of Malcolm Johnson standing in front of the Florida Power Corporation.
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	Additional Physical Form:	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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	General Note:	Florida Photographic Collection Number P1982-78: Print Collection PR76010-76029.
	Electronic Records Access:	https://www.floridamemory.com/discover/photographs/
	Subject Access Fields:	Conradi, Edward, 1869-1944 Johnson, Malcolm B. Tallahassee Democrat (Tallahassee, Fla. : Newspaper) Airports Florida Newspaper publishing Florida Photographs. aat Tallahassee (Fla.)
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