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	Record Group Number:	900000
	Series/Collection Number:	N2006- 4
	Creator:	McDonald, Cory.
	Title, Dates:	Key West photographic collection, ca. 1945-2005.
	Amount:	500 photographs (color and b&w)
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	Organization/Arrangement:	Numerical by staff-assigned image number.
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	Biographical/Historical:	Cory McDonald was born in Key West, Florida on March 30, 1946 to Helen and Howard McDonald, and lived there all his life except one year in the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. He worked for the federal government for over 35 years and retired in 2002. He worked in the Key West Naval Air Station photo lab for more than 8 years taking photos, shooting movies, and printing black-and-white and color photos. Cory McDonald became interested in photography at a young age and bought his first camera when he was in the 4th grade. He developed his first photo a few years later as a Boy Scout at Camp Sebring, Florida in the late 1950s. He started doing serious photography in high school, and shortly after graduating started photographing weddings. Around that time he also started taking flying lessons and then became involved in aerial photography. He worked for the Key West Citizen newspaper for a short time in the late 1960s as the social photographer and still holds the unofficial record of having more photos in one daily issue than anyone else (54 photos). His brother, Dale McDonald (1949-2007), was also a prolific Key West photographer.
	Summary:	This collection contains color and black-and-white photographs, negatives, and slides taken in and around the Key West area. The images include aerials; public figures such as Presidents John F. Kennedy and Harry S. Truman and concert pianist Yehuda Guttman; military boats and planes; and hurricane damage.
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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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	Associated Materials:	For more images of Key West, see Collection N2003- 10, Dale McDonald's Key West Slides and Photographs, 1935-2000 (2500 photographs).
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	Electronic Records Access:	https://www.floridamemory.com/discover/photographs/
	Subject Access Fields:	Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963. (John Fitzgerald), McDonald, Cory. Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972. United States. President (1961-1963 : Kennedy) United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman) Airplanes, Military. Hurricanes Florida Military sealift. Transportation, Military. Aerial photographs. aat Negatives. aat Photographs. aat Slides. aat Key West (Fla.)
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