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Episode 5 Image Credit & Resources

Scene 01 – Completion of the Oversea Railroad

Resources:

  • Book: “Last Train to Paradise”.

Images:

  • Train on Oversea Railway track. Courtesy of Smartt Inc.
  • FEC construction locomotive. Courtesy of Jerry Wilkinson.
  • FEC railroad arrival into Key West. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
  • Flagler and wife arrive in Key West. Courtesy of Daily Herald.
  • Flagler escorted in Key West. Courtesy of Oversea Railroad.
  • The Rambler train car in 1967 at Whitehall. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • The Rambler train car at Whitehall. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Royal Palm Hotel in 1912. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Royal Palm Hotel garden postcard in 1912. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Interior of Royal Palm Hotel. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Postcard of Whitehall in Palm Beach. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Interior of White Hall in Palm Beach. Courtesy of Wikipedia.
  • Exterior of White Hall in Palm Beach. Courtesy of Florida Memory.

Scene #2: Everglades Reclamation

Images:

  • Everglades dredge in 1907. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Everglades drag line. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Everglade’s drainage. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Portrait of Hamilton Disston. Courtesy of Wikipedia.
  • The Disston Land Company. Courtesy of Scripo Philly.
  • Disston’s Saint Cloud Canal. Courtesy of Wikipedia.
  • Portrait of Napoleon B. Broward. Courtesy of Wikipedia.
  • Everglade’s drainage cartoon with Broward. Courtesy of Wikipedia.
  • Broward’s blueprint of Everglade’s drainage. Courtesy of Wikipedia.
  • Map of Everglade’s drainage. Courtesy of Rare Maps.
  • Drainage canal in 1910s. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • North fork of Miami River. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Internal Improvement Fund district camp. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Portrait of Richard J. Bolles. Courtesy of Wikipedia.
  • Bolles Hotel. Courtesy of Wikipedia.
  • Portrait of Tatum Brothers.
  • Everglade’s foliage. Courtesy of National Park Service.
  • Everglade’s bird species. Courtesy of National Park Service.
  • Everglade’s fires. Courtesy of University of South Florida.
  • Miami Women’s Club in 1900. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Construction at Royal Palm State Park. Courtesy of National Park Service.
  • Royal Palm State Park. Courtesy of University of South Florida.
  • Dedication of Everglades National Park in 1947. Courtesy of Wikipedia.
  • Harry Truman during Everglade’s dedication in 1947. Courtesy of National Park Service.

Scene #3: Beginnings of Miami Beach

Images:

  • Miami Beach in 1912. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Miami Beach as a barrier island in 1914. Courtesy of Miami New Times.
  • Portrait of J.N. Lummus. Courtesy of Miami and Dade County Florida book.
  • Portrait of John Collins. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Map of Collins Bridge in 1919. Courtesy of Florida State Archives.
  • Portrait of Carl Fisher. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Lincoln Highway dedication in 1913. Courtesy of Lincoln Highway Museum.
  • Indianapolis 500 in 1916. Courtesy of Wikipedia.
  • Prest-O-Lite Advertising.
  • Opening of Collins Bridge on June 12, 1913. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Collins Bridge in 1913. Courtesy of Miami Beach 411.
  • Clearing of land for Lincoln Road in 1924. Courtesy of Florida Memory. Part of Wendler Collection.
  • Alton Beach Realty Company. Courtesy of Florida Memory. Photographer: William A. Fishbaugh.
  • Ocean Bach Realty Company. Courtesy of Ocean Drive Magazine.
  • Map of Dixie Highway. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Picture of part of Dixie Highway in 1922. Courtesy of Florida Memory. Photographer: William A. Fishbaugh.
  • Picture of Dixie Highway. Courtesy of Florida Memory.

Scene #4: Happenings of 1910s

Images:

  • Article on Miami Growth in 1920.
  • Another article on Miami Growth in 1920.
  • Parade down Flagler Street in 1911 to celebrate 15 year anniversary of incorporation. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Howard Gill and airplane in 1911. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Howard Gill and flight in 1911. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Everest Sewell at work. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Miami promotional brochure. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • “Come to Miami” advertisement. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Advertisement to support bill to make Dade County Dry on October 24, 1913. Courtesy of Miami Metropolis.
  • Article about Dade County voted dry in the Miami Metropolis in 1913.
  • Map of newly created Broward County in 1915. Courtesy of Florida History Network.

Scene #5: Vizcaya

Images:

  • Portrait of James Deering. Courtesy of Vizcaya Museum.
  • International Harvester Tractor from 1920. Courtesy of Wikipedia.
  • Portrait of William Deering. Courtesy of Wikipedia.
  • Land comprising Vizcaya. Courtesy of Vizcaya Museum.
  • Map of Vizcaya. Courtesy of Vizcaya Museum.
  • Vizcaya property. Courtesy of Vizcaya Museum.
  • Picture of Francis Burrall Hoffman. Courtesy of Vizcaya Museum.
  • Picture of Paul Chalfin. Courtesy of Vizcaya Museum.
  • Back of Vizcaya in December of 1916. Courtesy of Vizcaya Museum.
  • Aerial view of Vizcaya barge in bay. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Vizcaya barge in 1931. Courtesy of Vizcaya Museum.
  • Three pictures of Vizcaya gardens. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Marble table in Vizcaya gardens. Courtesy of Vizcaya Museum.
  • Vizcaya ornate garden. Courtesy of Vizcaya Museum.
  • Vizcaya fountain. Courtesy of Vizcaya Museum.
  • Vizcaya workers in 1915. Courtesy of Vizcaya Museum.
  • Vizcaya construction. Courtesy of Vizcaya Museum.

Scene #6: World War I and Miami

Images:

  • War resolution in the Miami Herald in 1917.
  • World War I propaganda.
  • T. Highleyman home on Point View hosing sailors from Dinner Key in 1917. Courtesy of Daly Highleyman.
  • Marines and planes in 1918. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Dinner Key air base in 1917. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Dinner Key bi-plane in 1918. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Dinner Key during WWI in 1917. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Dinner Key hangar in 1918. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Dinner Key naval aviator. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Eddie Rickenbacker during WWI. Courtesy of Wikipedia.
  • Pan Am at Dinner Key after the war. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Anti-German propaganda.
  • Portrait of John Seybold. Courtesy of Find A Grave.
  • Seybold Building in 1940. Courtesy of HistoryMiami.
  • Portrait of Glenn Curtis. Courtesy of Wikipedia.
  • Curtiss Bright Ranch. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Glenn Curtiss Mansion. Courtesy of Glenn Curtiss Mansion.
  • Bond drive at Halcyon Hotel in 1917. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Home guard in Miami during WWI. Courtesy of Florida Memory.
  • Armistice peace headline. Courtesy of the Ogden Standard.
  • Armistice peace headline. Courtesy of the New York Times.
  • Announcement of war ending. Courtesy of the Evening World.
  • Armistice Day on Flagler Street in Miami. Courtesy of Miami Metropolis.
  • Armistice Day celebration on Flagler Street on November 11, 1918. Courtesy of Miami Department of Tourism.