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Ruskin - Photo Collection

Description
Historical Photos of Ruskin, Florida
Language
eng
Displaying 1 - 15 of 77

Painting of First Boat named Kilcare in Ruskin

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Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin - Photo Collection
Contributors: Artist is not Identified
Description: Painting (artist unknown) of the first Kilcare, built and operated by A. P. Dickman to serve as transportation to and from Ruskin to Tampa in earliest days of the community.
Full Text: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ …

First Ruskin Bank

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Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin - Photo Collection
Description: First Ruskin Bank Building. The First Ruskin Bank was formed in 1961 and served the community until it was sold to Barnett Bank (at the time, Florida's largest bank) on 12-8-1985. At the time of the sale, the Ruskin Bank held $71 million in assets. more
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Adaline Miller group photo 007 back

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Type: Still Image
Member of: Adaline Miller group photo 007, Ruskin - Photo Collection

Dredging on Ruskin Inlet

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Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin - Photo Collection
Description: Dredging of Ruskin Inlet along west side US 41 in Ruskin. You can see the Coffee Pot Restaurant on the extreme right side of the picture which stood at the SE Corner of US 41 and Shell Point Road. Today's Ruskin Library would be just out of the picture on the right side. Dredging, which was begun by Paul Dickman was used to create additional lands for sale along Ruskin Inlet in several… more
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Georgadda M Miller - house

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Type: Still Image
Member of: Georgadda M Miller - House, Ruskin - Photo Collection
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Georgadda M Miller - House

Georgadda M Miller - House
Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin - Photo Collection
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Porch of Hotel on Shell Point 1908

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Type: Still Image
Year: 1908, 1908
Member of: Ruskin - Photo Collection
Description: There are few photos of the old hotel, reportedly built on the site of native Ucita (native tribe who lived in the area at the time of DeSoto's entry in Florida) mound at the end of Ruskin's Shell Point. This picture, from the Joni Maschek archives and labeled as a 1908 photo of the Ruskin hotel was the first residence for George Miller and his family. In some of the interviews of the… more
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Adaline Miller house

Adaline Miller house
Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin - Photo Collection
Description: This home, which is today listed on the National Register of Historic Places, sits at the corner of today's US 41 and College Avenue. It was reportedly designed by Adaline Miller, based on drawings of a Swiss Chalet that she found in a favored book. The building served Ruskin College as both a classroom and as the home for President George Miller and his wife, and Vice President of the… more
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Reverse Rose Dickman at Tomato Festival

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Type: Still Image
Member of: Rose Dickman attends Ruskin Tomato Festival, Ruskin - Photo Collection
Description: Reverse of hccfl:2014
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Rose Dickman attends Ruskin Tomato Festival

Rose Dickman attends Ruskin Tomato Festival
Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin - Photo Collection
Description: Rose Dickman views the display by the Ruskin Woman's Club Food Display at the undated Ruskin Tomato Festival. more
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Kate O'Hare Exhorts Crowd

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Type: Still Image
Year: 1914, 1914
Member of: Ruskin - Photo Collection
Publisher: St. Louis Times
Description: Kate O"hare was a very well known socialist reformer, author, speaker, agitator for not only socialist causes but women's suffrage and prison reform. She taught at Ruskin College in 1917 on the invitation of Dr. George Miller. That same year, Ms. O'Hare, who lived in Ruskin with her husband and four children, was arrested in Montana and charged under the new US Sedition Act for… more
Full Text: St. Louis Times … http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/ …

Early Transportation Mode to Ruskin at Ruskin Landing

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Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin - Photo Collection
Description: Earliest known photo (c. 1908) of one of two boats that served Ruskin Florida as the only transportation in and out of the town. The name of the boat is not listed. Photo provided by the Ruskin Chamber of Commerce.
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Downtown Ruskin 1950s

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Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin - Photo Collection
Description: Photo of shopping area in downtown Ruskin, 1950s. Photo: courtesy of HIllsborough County Public Library System
Full Text: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ …

Georgadda M Miller - photo 0003 back

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Type: Still Image
Member of: Georgadda M Miller, Ruskin - Photo Collection

1945 Ruskin School Teachers

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Type: Still Image
Year: 1945, 1945
Member of: 1945 Ruskin School Teachers Group Photo, Ruskin - Photo Collection
Description: Group photo of teachers at Ruskin School for the 1945-46 school year. There is some identification of these teachers on the reverse. (Likely Ms. Carrothers in front row, second from left, which will aid in identification.)
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