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Listen: The Latin ProgramMen viewing a Reverse Osmosis System water machine at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida.
Image Number
Photographer
Date
Date Note
Rights
Collection
N2011- 7, Photographic collection, 1930s-1970s; Box 12
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Service industries--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Tourism--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Attractions--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Botanical gardens--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Water -- Purification -- Reverse osmosis process
Machinery
Men--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Naturalists--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Biologists--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Plant specialists--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Botanists--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Personal Subjects
Corporate Subject
Physical Description
General Note
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens was officially opened to the public on July 7, 1975. The gardens use approximately 900,000 gallons of water per year, much of it rainwater collected in the cistern or water produced by reverse osmosis.
Identified in the image are Dr. Cal Dodson with Mr. Morgan and an assistant.
Biographical Note
Joseph Janney Steinmetz was a world-renowned commercial photographer whose images appeared in such publications as the Saturday Evening Post, Life, Look, Time, Holiday, Collier's, and Town & Country. His work has been referred to as "an American social history," which documented diverse scenes of American life from affluent northeasterners to middle-class Floridians. Steinmetz moved from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Sarasota, Florida in 1941.
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