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	Record Group Number:	900000
	Series/Collection Number:	N2004- 2
	Creator:	Patton, Bryant Grady, 1896-1954.
	Title, Dates:	Apalachicola seafood industry photographs, 1946.
	Amount:	46 photographs
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	Biographical/Historical:	Bryant Grady Patton (1896-1954) was born in Apalachicola (Franklin County), Florida, to George A. Patton and Emma Estelle Shoup Patton. Patton served with the National Guard in World War I and advanced to the rank of colonel. During the 1920s, Patton sold life insurance and worked as a broker for oil leases before becoming an oil company executive in Oklahoma. During this time, Patton helped organize the American Legion, a national veterans association. In 1938, Patton moved back to Apalachicola and formed a partnership in cattle ranch and saw mill businesses in Apalachicola between 1941 and 1943. In 1944, he started his seafood business, the Apalachicola Fish and Oyster Company, which he operated until 1951. In 1946, Patton hired a photographer to take promotional photographs of his seafood business.
	Summary:	This collection contains black-and-white photographs of Bryant Grady Patton's seafood operations in Apalachicola, Florida. Images show employees netting, cleaning, packaging, and shipping seafood caught in the Apalachicola Bay on the Gulf Coast of Florida. A few images of white male employees and a pilot loading seafood and ice onto a plane document what might be the first seafood business to fly seafood from the Apalachicola Bay to other parts of the country. The photographs depict a division of labor based on race and sex, where Black men, women, children, as well as white women clean the seafood, while images of white male employees show activities such as netting seafood from boats out on the bay and assisting the pilot.
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	Subject Access Fields:	Patton, Bryant Grady, 1896-1954. Apalachicola Fish and Oyster Company (Apalachicola, Fla.) Seafood industry. Photographs. aat Apalachicola Bay (Fla.) Apalachicola (Fla.) Franklin County (Fla.)
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