Hampton Dunn Phototouring Florida Collection

Journalist Hampton Dunn wrote Photouring Florida as a syndicated column for various Florida newspapers in the 1960s and 70s, such as the Tampa Tribune and Pensacola Daily News. The column featured a brief story written about a single photograph of a Florida landmark. In 1959, he had become head of public relations for the Peninsula Motor Club, an affiliate of the American Automobile Association (AAA), later serving as vice president and president. His constant driving around the state gave Dunn the inspiration for the column, which once ran in as many as fifty newspapers.

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Bok made world more beautiful and better

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Typescript of Photouring Florida column that describes Edward Bok's Singing Tower in Lake Wales. Date is approximate. Ca. 1960s.
Boom-time hotel now a military school

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Typescript of Photouring Florida column that describes the Jungle Country Club Hotel, later turned into a school by the Farragut Military Academy. Date is approximate. Ca. 1960s.
Boom-time inn still a delightful spot

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Typescript of Photouring Florida column that describes Wakulla Springs and the Wakulla Springs Lodge. Date is approximate. Ca. 1960s.
Brick wall a memento of early Navy yard

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Typescript of Photouring Florida column that describes the old Navy Yard in Pensacola. Date is approximate. Ca. 1960s.
'bride's church' graces Coconut Grove

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Typescript of Photouring Florida column that describes the Plymouth Congregational Church in Miami's Coconut Grove neighborhood. Date is approximate. Ca. 1960s.
Bridge is Florida's largest public works

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Typescript of Photouring Florida column that describes the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Date is approximate. Ca. 1960s.
Bronson Methodist Church 100 years old

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Typescript of Photouring Florida column that describes the Bronson Methodist Church. Date is approximate. Ca. 1960s.
Cable-drawn ferry collides with 'progress'

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Typescript of Photouring Florida column that describes Florida's last functioning cable ferry in Marion County's Orange Springs. Date is approximate. Ca. 1960s.
Campbelltonians say, "we're the oldest!"

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Typescript of Photouring Florida column that describes the oldest chartered Missionary Baptist Church in Florida, located in Campbellton. Date is approximate. Ca. 1960s.
Canal false start left old bridge piers

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Typescript of Photouring Florida column that describes the bridge piers between Ocala and Belleview on U.S. 301. Date is approximate. Ca. 1960s.
Capital's oldest public building is a church

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Typescript of Photouring Florida column that describes First Presbyterian Church in Tallahassee. Date is approximate. Ca. 1960s.
Carl Fisher's honeymoon house still stands

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Typescript of Photouring Florida column that describes Carl and Jane Fisher's honeymoon house on Miami Beach. Date is approximate. Ca. 1960s.
cars go around grave in street

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Typescript of Photouring Florida column that describes the grave on Charles Dummett in the middle of new Smyrna Beach's Canova Drive. Date is approximate. Ca. 1960s.
Cathedral facade truly a landmark Hampton Dunn collection

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Typescript of Photouring Florida column that describes the Cathedral of St. Augustine. Date is approximate. Ca. 1960s.
Catholics 'needed competition,' so supported Methodists

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Typescript of Photouring Florida column that describes the relationship between the Methodist church in San Antonio, Florida, and the Catholic church in neighboring St. Leo. Date is approximate. Ca. 1960s.
Cedar Key Museum tells exciting story

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Typescript of Photouring Florida column that describes the St. Clair Whitman Museum in Cedar Key, now known as the Cedar Key Museum State Park. Date is approximate. Ca. 1960s.
Chuluota didn't make it as boom town

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Typescript of Photouring Florida column that describes the town of Chuluota in Seminole County and a few homes in the area. Date is approximate. Ca. 1960s.
church Harriet Beecher Stowe built

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Typescript of Photouring Florida column that describes the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour, founded by Harriet Beecher Stowe in the Jacksonville neighborhood of Mandarin. Date is approximate. Ca. 1960s.
Church in same spot but in four counties

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Typescript of Photouring Florida column that describes New Hope Methodist Church in Istachatta. Date is approximate. Ca. 1960s.
Church, pre-fabbed in N.Y., brought to Florida by schooner

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Photouring Florida column that explores the history of Trinity Episcopal Church on Gorrie Square in Apalachicola, Florida. Date is approximate. Ca. 1960s.
Circus king left Florida a great legacy

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Typescript of Photouring Florida column that describes the private art collection acquired by John Ringling. Date is approximate. Ca. 1960s.
city hall that doesn't look like one

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Typescript of Photouring Florida column that describes City Hall in Coral Gables. Date is approximate. Ca. 1960s.
Clewiston Inn is local landmark

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Typescript of Photouring Florida column that describes the Clewiston Inn in Hendry County's Clewiston. Date is approximate. Ca. 1960s.
Collier memorialized in Royal Palm Hammock

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Typescript of Photouring Florida column that describes the memorial to Barron G. Collier in the Collier-Seminole Stake Park near Naples. Date is approximate. Ca. 1960s.
Colonial Hotel princess of yesterday

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Typescript of Photouring Florida column that describes the Colonial Hotel in White Springs. Date is approximate. Ca. 1960s.