Ruskin - Photo Collection
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Ruskin Elementary 1912
Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin - Photo Collection
Description: Photo of children playing in front of the original Ruskin Elementary school in 1912. This building was used for a number of community meetings, as well as religious services, prior to College buildings being erected later in the decade.
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Ruskin property known as "The Quarters"
Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin - Photo Collection, Ruskin property known as "The Quarters"
Description: Ruskin property known as "The Quarters"... farmlands where blacks lived and worked. See interview of Lillie May Jenkins Liverpool. She created a replica of "The Quarters". Note her family's residence circled; including outhouse. more
Harriett Orcutt Arriving in Ruskin with Wheeler Family
Type: Still Image
Year: 1911, 1911
Member of: Ruskin - Photo Collection
Contributors: Harriet Orcutt, Wheeler
Description: Photo of Harriett Orcutt, seated, arriving in Ruskin with the Wheeler Family.
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Shell Point Drive Aerial View
Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin - Photo Collection
Description: Aerial View of Shell Point Drive. Little Manatee River and Ruskin Inlet at the base of the photo. Date unknown, but shows newly developed dredged land on the south side of the River and Inlet.
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Willie Walker: Later Owner of Coffee Cup
Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin - Photo Collection
Description: Photo Willie Walker, owner of Coffee Cup Restaurant (after Paul and Esther Dickman). Picture is taken at the Coffee Cup under the front Portico.. Date of photo unknown.
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Adaline Miller group photo 007
Type: Still Image
Member of: Adaline Miller group photo 007, Ruskin - Photo Collection
Contributors: Adaline Miller Miller, Adaline
Ruskin property known as "The Quarters"
Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin - Photo Collection, Ruskin property known as "The Quarters"
Looking North along US 41 in Ruskin 1929
Type: Still Image
Year: 1929, 1929
Member of: Ruskin - Photo Collection
Description: Circa 1929 photo of US 41 looking north in Ruskin, FL. The Coffee Cup is the farthest building on the right (that you can see). On the left, according to Paul B.Dickman is his original Real Estate Office. In 1933 or 34 this building was converted to a warehouse for Dickman's tomato canning plant. It housed machinery and canning tomatoes. Just north of that building was a filling station… more
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Lavaenders Grocery
Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin - Photo Collection
Description: Lavender's was the principal store for the Ruskin area through the 1940s. Located on the NW corner of Hwy 41 and College Avenue. Utlimately, it burned down more
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Reverse Temporary Women's Dorm: Ruskin College
Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin - Photo Collection, Temporary Women's Dorm: Ruskin College
Description: Temp woman's dorm, post office more
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Ruskin VFW Post #6287
Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin - Photo Collection
Description: Aerial view of Ruskin VFW Memorial Post No 6287. Reverse side of photo indicates this building, which still stands at 5120 US Highway 41 in Ruskin (across from Drive in Theater) was built in 1947. A history of the VFW tells that the chapter was formed in 1946.
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1959 Aerial View of Ruskin
Type: Still Image
Year: 1959, 1959
Member of: Ruskin - Photo Collection
Publisher: Burgert Brothers
Description: January 1959 photograph of the Ruskin area. The river at the bottom of the picture is the Little Manatee River. Ruskin lies on the north shore of the River and the Ruskin Inlet. The developing area, in white, at the extreme left of the picture is Paul Dickman's Bahia Beach area, then under construction. more
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Shell Point Tavern c. 1980
Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin - Photo Collection
Description: Photo of Shell Point Tavern, once part of Shell Point Fishing Lodge and Marina that was a popular tourist destination in the middle part of the 20th Century. Sunbathing, fishing, roller skating, and Olympic sized pool once stood on the site now home to Ruskin's Shell Point Marina. more
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Ruskin Methodist Church - Postcard
Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin - Photo Collection
Publisher: Spalding Publishers
Description: Postcard displaying image of Ruskin Methodist Church. Date unknown. Likely fairly early as tree growth is limited around church. 1930s?
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Ground Breaking for First Ruskin Bank
Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin - Photo Collection
Contributors: Elsworth Simmons, Paul Dickman, Peter Porter
Description: Notes on Reverse: Break Ground for "First Ruskin Bank.: PBD (Paul Dickman) with Shovel. 2nd man to the right of Paul Dickman is Hillsborough County Commissioner Ellsworth Simmons. The bank opened on October 6, 1961 and served the community until it was sold to Barnett Bank on 12-8-1985. more
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