Author: Parks, Arva Moore
Title: The Forgotten Frontier Florida Through the Lens of Ralph Middleton Munroe
Description: Miami, FL, Banyan Books, 1980. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. paper boards with gilt titles in sepia illustrated jacket. 5 preliminary pages, 177 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm. "Here, in this remarkable, previously unknown collection of 230 of [Ralph Middleton Munroe's] photographs from 1800s to 1900, we see a Florida we will never see again. We see people carving out a life on a frontier that was in many ways more unique than any other. Here sailboats were the counter-parts of the covered wagon and the barefoot mailman of the pony express. Through Munroe's camera we see carefully detailed scenes that historians cannot fully describe: the Gold Coast before settlement; the first pictures of the Seminole Indians; Key West as the wrecking capital of the world; beauty primeval and untouched."--Book jacket. VG/G. Minimally marked ex-art lib, with sicker on spine of jacket and inside rear end paper. Book itself in very good condition. Jacket has tape repairs at head and tail of spine and light edge wear.

Keywords: Photography ; Munroe; Ralph Middleton ; ;


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