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Record Group Number: 900000
Series/Collection Number: M82- 39
Creator: Mangold, Jacob G.
Title, Dates: Hotel Punta Gorda photograph, 1880-1890.
Amount: 1 photographs
Medium Included: photograph 8x5 inches
Organization/Arrangement: Unarranged
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Biographical/Historical:     Jacob G. Mangold was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1825 and moved to Putnam County, Florida, by the end of the century. He established a photography studio in Palatka, called J.G. Mangold Portrait and Landscape.

    In the late 1800s, Punta Gorda (Charlotte County), Florida, was a bustling town located at the end of Henry Plant's railway system. Plant bought several small bankrupt rail companies serving the South and put them together to form the Plant System of Railways. Shortly after, he began to build hotels at strategic locations along his rail lines in Florida, including the Hotel Punta Gorda, which catered to wealthy tourists who brought their yachts and private rail cars. The Hotel Punta Gorda was open to the public only in the winter months. Wealthy and famous people from all over the world dined and vacationed at the hotel. The city became a major port for steamships going between New Orleans and Havana, Cuba. In the early 1920s, Florida Governor Baron Collier bought the hotel and changed its name to Hotel Charlotte Harbor. A fire in 1959 destroyed the hotel.
Summary:     This collection contains a single photograph of the Hotel Punta Gorda in Punta Gorda, Florida. The image depicts the exterior of the building facing the hotel's docks.
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General Note: Florida Photographic Collection Number P1982-39
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Subject Access Fields: Flagler, Henry Morrison, 1830-1913
Mangold, Jacob G.
Hotels Florida
Tourism Florida.
Photographs. aat
Punta Gorda (Fla.)
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