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Record Group Number: 900000
Series/Collection Number: N2017- 5
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Title, Dates: Alice Wilder photographic collection, 1925-1970.
Amount: 0.25 cubic ft.
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Biographical/Historical:     Alice Stewart Wilder, born Alice Lucille Stewart on July 14, 1921, was born and raised in Tampa, Florida. Her parents were William and Catherine Stewart. Alice graduated from H.B. Plant High School in 1938, married John Wilder on May 19, 1944, and eventually moved to California. She died on December 18, 2001, in Mission Viejo, California.

    John Robert Wilder was born on November 11, 1916, in Americus, Georgia, to Edwin and Marilu Wilder. Raised in Tampa, he graduated from Hillsborough High School in 1935. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps as a B-17 pilot. While stationed in England, he flew missions over Germany. John died on August 7, 1995, in Bakersfield, California.

Summary:     This collection consists of photographs that Alice Wilder and her husband John Wilder collected. The photographs document their travels through Florida and other places in the United States, friends, and family. Places, events, and people depicted in the photographs include the Gasparilla Festival and parade, Clearwater Beach, Ballast Point, Hialeah, Governor Fred Cone riding in a car during a parade, and trips to northern states and Death Valley in California.

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Ownership/Custodial History: Karen Calzago sent the photographs, which she found while cleaning out her grandmother's house, to the Society of Florida Archivisits (SFA) in March 2017. Since SFA is not a collecting institution, they sent the photographs to the State Archives of Florida.
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Subject Access Fields: Cone, Fred P. 1871-1948 (Frederick Preston),
Beaches Florida
Parades
Travel Florida.
Photographs. aat
Clearwater (Fla.)
Florida Description and travel
Hialeah (Fla.)
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