Joseph Janney Steinmetz Photographic Collection

Thousands of photographic negatives and print photographs and contact sheets from the photography studio of local photographer Joseph Janney Steinmetz. Subjects include portraits, views of Sarasota from the top of the Orange Blossom Hotel, oxcarts and oxen at Myakka River State Park, the Ringling Hotel on Longboat Key, the Twitchell House, the Lambie Houses, the Rus Russell House, Bill Tracy's studio, Kate Wheelan's home and studio, Labor Day sailing races in Sarasota Bay, the Ringling Museum of Art, the exterior of Ca' d' Zan, the Lido Casino, the Florida Power and Light Company, Ben Stahl and his paintings, Mrs. Hester Ringling Sanford, Mrs. Philip Hiss, the Sarasota Art Association Show, the Sarasota Garden Club, a party hosted in 1950 by MacKinlay and Irene Kantor, the Plaza Restaurant, the Cocoon House, Thelma Sears, the Myakka River, the U.S.S. Sarasota, George Singletary, the Florida Dolomite Company, Rainbow Springs, the M-Bar-M Ranch, Sarasota Jungle Gardens, the Palm Tree Theater, the Philip Hiss House, the Sarasota Concrete and Block Company, the Florasota Apartments, Sarasota Bay, WPSB Radio staff, Port o' Call Apartments, Gulf Beach Motel, the Dort Ranch, First Federal Savings and Loan Association, Herb Fields Apartments, the Azure Tide Hotel, red tide, Colony Beach Resort Hotel, Arvida Bird Key Yacht Club, waterskiing, New College (1963), Saint Boniface Church, Jerry Ludwig, Mike Shea, Hurricane Alma, Galloway Furniture, etc.