Preview
Item Type
Image
Creation Date
1919
Description
Baby Alligators just kicking out of the shells. Alligators lay 40 to 60 eggs to a nest. Thousands hatched yearly at the FLORIDA ALLIGATOR FARM ("Young Alligator Joe's Place), Jacksonville, Florida. The Largest Alligator Farm in the World. Circa 1919
Printed by Arnold Printing Co, Jacksonville, Florida
On the back is a note written to Aunt Katie dated Saturday March 8, 1919 that reads:
Aunt Katie and I went to the Ostrich farm and also alligator farm at South Jacksonville today—saw a trained alligator and saw Ostrich harnessed to a wagon and driven around the (illegible). 2 different ladies rode (illegible) the colored driver—(illegible) you were home Auntie said she (illegible) I would go and ride but I did not even want to.
C.R. H. M.
Archival file
Keywords
Northeast Florida Regional Postcard Collection; Collectors and collecting -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- Photograph collections; Postcards -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- History -- 20th century; Jacksonville (Fla.) -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works; Florida Alligator Farm (Jacksonville, Fla.) -- Pictorial works; Alligator farming -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works; Picture postcards