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Record Group Number: 900000
Series/Collection Number: M82- 37
Creator: Darkin, Leonard.
Title, Dates: Darkin family photographs, 1880-1891.
Amount: 84 photographs
Medium Included: photographs
Organization/Arrangement: Unarranged.
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Biographical/Historical:     During the end of the nineteenth century, the Darkin family owned an orange grove farm and packing house near Juniper Creek on the southwest end of Lake George, the second-largest freshwater lake in Florida. Lake George has a significant salt content; the saline level is high enough that numerous salt-water fish and plant species thrive in its waters. Lake George lies approximately halfway between the headwaters of the St. Johns River and the river's closure in the Atlantic Ocean at Jacksonville.
Summary:     This collection contains photographs of the Darkin family and their property in the Lake George area of Florida during the turn of the nineteenth-twentieth centuries. The photographs include images of the exterior and interior of the Darkin family's house and orange packing house. Also included are images of their orange tree farm, Juniper Creek, steamboats, and a post office located at the end of a wharf. The photographs document the relationship between Black and white employees in a work environment during the end of the nineteenth century. The collection contains several photographs of unidentified Black workers in the background of the Darkin family pictures. One photograph depicts the Darkin family watching as three Black men dig a ditch, another is of a Black woman driving Mrs. Darkin and another female in a carriage. One image is of a Black family with one white male on the front porch of their house, which was located next door to the orange packing house.
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General Note: Florida Photographic Collection Number P1982-37
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Subject Access Fields: Darkin, Leonard.
Agricultural industries Citrus fruit.
African Americans
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