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  1. 88.42.49 - Print, Photographic

    B&W. View of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad station at Immokalee, completed during Tamiami Trail construction. Double set of railroad tracks on left. Originally captioned "New A.C.L. RR Station". Dated 1927.

    Record Type: Photo

    Print, Photographic
  2. 88.42.52 - Print, Photographic

    B&W. Row of wooden shacks used by engineer crews during Tamiami Trail construction. Sand road in foreground. Originally captioned "The Nerve Center. Main Camp Alexander, Ramsay & Kerr. G.C. Willson, Engineer in Charge."

    Record Type: Photo

    Print, Photographic
  3. 88.42.53 - Print, Photographic

    B&W. Survey and clearing crew marking the center line for the Tamiami Trail through heavily wooded cypress swamp. Originally captioned "Blazing the Way. Surveyors locating the route through the Big Cypress."

    Record Type: Photo

    Print, Photographic
  4. 88.42.55 - Print, Photographic

    B&W. Three-man survey crew with transit, locating the center line for the Tamiami Trail through a cypress swamp. Originally captioned "As it was in the beginning. Clearing Right of Way through the Big Cypress."

    Record Type: Photo

    Print, Photographic
  5. 88.42.56 - Print, Photographic

    B&W. Drover with team of oxen hauling barrels of gasoline through a cypress prairie during Tamiami Trail construction. Originally captioned "Transporting Gasoline by oxen on Immokalee Road."

    Record Type: Photo

    Print, Photographic
  6. 88.42.57 - Print, Photographic

    B&W. Close-up view of workers with 30-ton drill car used during Tamiami Trail construction. Originally captioned "Drilling holes for blasting. Day and night for 28 months, this machine drilled through solid rock." Original typed notation on reverse reads "This is the drill car which preceded the walking dredge. Note three drills. Holes were filled with dynamite and charge loosened rock which was taken out for road bed. Hole became t...

    Record Type: Photo

    Print, Photographic
  7. 88.42.58 - Print, Photographic

    B&W. Drilling and blasting crew gathered in camp in front of two, tent shacks during Tamiami Trail construction. Originally captioned "Drillers and Blasters. In Camp Far from the maddening Crowd."

    Record Type: Photo

    Print, Photographic
  8. 88.42.59 - Print, Photographic

    B&W. Four workmen pulling a loaded dynamite cart over a makeshift log tramway during Tamiami Trail construction, circa 1926. Originally captioned "Munitions to the Front. Across the Bogs of the Big Cypress through which neither man nor beast may walk."

    Record Type: Photo

    Print, Photographic
  9. 88.42.60 - Print, Photographic

    B&W. Four workmen pulling a loaded dynamite cart over a makeshift log tramway during Tamiami Trail construction, circa 1926. Dredge working in distance (center). Originally captioned "Primitive but Sure. Transporting dynamite to blasters ahead of Dredges. Tram Road Express - 2 mile road."

    Record Type: Photo

    Print, Photographic
  10. 88.42.61 - Print, Photographic

    B&W. Explosion from charge of dynamite, used to blast out bedrock during Tamiami Trail / Immokalee Road construction. Wooden tramway on left for transporting supplies. Originally captioned "Blasting in Big Marsh - Immokalee Road."

    Record Type: Photo

    Print, Photographic
  11. 88.42.62 - Print, Photographic

    B&W. Explosion from charge of dynamite, used to blast out bedrock during Tamiami Trail/Immokalee Road construction. Wooden tramway on left, for transporting supplies. Originally captioned "Boom! 600 lbs. 60% nitroglycerine dynamite dislodges solid rock stratum underlying Big Cypress Bogs."

    Record Type: Photo

    Print, Photographic
  12. 88.42.63 - Print, Photographic

    B&W. Distant view of a Marion floating dredge at work in drainage canal with outriggers extended during Tamiami Trail construction. Originally captioned "The Marion Floater. In heavy rock section."

    Record Type: Photo

    Print, Photographic
  13. 88.42.64 - Print, Photographic

    B&W. 3 1/2-cubic yard Marion dredge with 110-foot boom extended, mounding up fill for road bed and railroad embankment on Immokalee Road project during Tamiami Trail construction. Wooden tramway on left for transporting supplies. Original caption on reverse reads "Marion dredge builds Highway and Railroad Embankment."

    Record Type: Photo

    Print, Photographic
  14. 88.42.65 - Print, Photographic

    B&W. Bay City skimmer scoop machine levelling piles of rock and fill material produced by dredges into a rough grade for Immokalee Road project during Tamiami Trail construction. Originally captioned "Skimmer Scoop on Immokalee Road."

    Record Type: Photo

    Print, Photographic
  15. 88.42.66 - Print, Photographic

    B&W. Work tents and supply camp used during Tamiami Trail construction. Graded roadbed in foreground. Originally captioned "Tent Camp. Close by grading operations."

    Record Type: Photo

    Print, Photographic
  16. 88.42.67 - Print, Photographic

    B&W. Tractor-pulled Austin Western scarifier, Number 20, grading roadbed during Tamiami Trail construction. Originally captioned "The Scarifier. With 6-inch square steel teeth does the first finishing operation."

    Record Type: Photo

    Print, Photographic
  17. 88.42.68 - Print, Photographic

    B&W. Caterpillar tractor pulling an Austin Western scarifier, Number 20, during road grading operations for Tamiami Trail construction, circa 1927. Originally captioned "14-foot Grader. Rough grades."

    Record Type: Photo

    Print, Photographic
  18. 88.42.69 - Print, Photographic

    B&W. View of the sawmill at Sunniland where lumber was cut for building bridges and sheds used during Tamiami Trail construction. Railroad bed and track in foreground. Originally captioned "Old Sawmill Near Sunniland."

    Record Type: Photo

    Print, Photographic
  19. 88.42.70 - Print, Photographic

    B&W. View of the sawmill at Sunniland where lumber was cut for building bridges and sheds used during Tamiami Trail construction. Railroad bed and truck in foreground. Originally captioned "Saw Mill where lumber for bridges and camps was cut."

    Record Type: Photo

    Print, Photographic
  20. 88.42.71 - Print, Photographic

    B&W. Distant view of crane and floating dredge quarrying fill material along drainage canal for roadbed during Tamiami Trail construction. Originally captioned "Rock Quarry. Quarrying Surfacing Material for Sandy Sections."

    Record Type: Photo

    Print, Photographic

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