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Record Group Number: 900000
Series/Collection Number: M98- 22
Creator: Beers Construction Company.
Title, Dates: Beers Construction Company photographs, 1936-1941.
Amount: 12 photographs ; 8"x10"
Medium Included: photographs
Organization/Arrangement: Unarranged.
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Biographical/Historical:     The Southern Ferro Concrete Company formed in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1905. In 1935, Harold W. Beers led an employee buy-out, became CEO, and changed the company's name to Beers Construction Company. Under Beers' leadership, the company constructed churches, hospitals and schools throughout the Southeast, including Florida. The company changed its name again in 2002 to Skanska USA Building, Inc.
Summary:     This collection contains photographs taken by the Beers Construction Company that depict its construction projects in Florida. Most of the photographs document construction of the 1936 addition to the Florida Capitol building. Other images include the federal court house and a women's dormitory on the Florida State College for Women campus. In addition, there are a few images of buildings in the Gainesville, Florida, area.
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Additional Physical Form: Select images 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 P1998-07.
Electronic Records Access: https://www.floridamemory.com/discover/photographs/
Subject Access Fields: Florida State College for Women.
Construction industry Florida
Architecture Florida
Photographs. aat
Florida Capital and capitol
Gainesville (Fla.)
Tallahassee (Fla.)
Added Entries Beers Construction Company.