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James R. Stockton Sr. in front of a portrait of his father Telfair Stockton, seated at his desk in the old Atlantic Bank Building in downtown Jacksonville in the early 1950’s. Telfair Stockton founded Telfair Stockton and Co. in the late 1800’s and played a major role in establishing Jacksonville as a port city. […]
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Happy couple with bolt action rifle taking aim at something across the St. Johns River. How I wish Loyd left a note telling us the story behind this photo! I guess we are free to let our imaginations run wild…
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“Here two sailors getting ready for a days supply of 50 calibers. They would use 3 million rounds a day at the Yellow Water Gunnery School. Jacksonville, Florida. 1945” LS This was quite a complex in the 1940’s, one of three facilities in the United States used to train Navy gunners in all aspects of […]
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Sailors use their down time to play volleyball at Naval Station Mayport during the 1940’s. Loyd Sandgren was stationed there as the base photographer from 1942 to 1945.
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Men’s roller derby in the Jacksonville Coliseum. It is a little hard to see but a number of fans in the background are smoking. 1960’s.
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Photographer William “Bill” Elsner with models and his Hasselblad camera at the groundbreaking of the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Jacksonville December 12, 1967. A graduate of Lee High School Elsner’s photographic career started in the military during W.W. II where he served as an aerial photographer aboard the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill during fighting in […]
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White protest march dated March 22, 1965 on the city parking lot near the location where the Jacksonville Landing now stands. Warren Folks is leading the march with a sign that reads ‘This Small White March is in Protest of the Big Black March in Alabama’. This would have been three days before the approximately […]
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It seems like in the 1950’s and early 1960’s there was a beauty pageant for everything. There was no information with this particular photo but I was able to glean a little from some other photos that look like they came from the same shoot. This appears to be from a pageant sponsored by the […]
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Nothing like having a pouncing tiger over your head to keep a sales meeting moving along. The poster on the easel is for GE Televisions. There is no information with the original print but I am thinking this might be a stage at Andrew Jackson High School.
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This would have been from 1946, the year Loyd Sandgren worked out of Tallahassee shooting photos around the state of Florida promoting the state for tourism and commerce. Nothing says summer like a kid with watermelon.
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