24 Apr 2012
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A beautiful boat full of beautiful women. The matching hats on the ladies are a nice touch. Don’t know any details on this particular shot and it is the only image of a Chris-Craft boat I’ve noticed in the collection but it looks like it may have been shot on the Ortega River looking South […]
09 Jan 2012
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Window display in the Levy’s store in downtown Jacksonville displaying women’s fashions along with a 1960’s Vogue photo spread that featured the new line of 1960’s Ford automobile offerings alongside the clothing featured in the display. Some early cross marketing? “This was one of the many pictures that was taken for the different stores downtown. […]
21 Dec 2011
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You can’t go wrong with fast jets and pretty girls in bathing suites (or is that fast cars?) but this late 1950’s image of a bathing beauty and a Florida Air National Guard F-80 Shooting Star jet makes a pretty good pairing. Loyd Sandgren did not leave any notes with this image but Ron Tittle […]
25 Oct 2011
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One of two variations from the Loyd Sandgren collection of women on a dock pointing excitedly at something outside the frame.
23 Sep 2011
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“This is just one of the many strippers that I had the pleasure of taking pictures of. This was taken in 1953 and she ordered many prints including 20 x 30’s and 30 x 40’s which I made in my darkroom. It was taken in my studio on 22 E. Beaver St. I must have […]
30 Aug 2011
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Two young ladies with flowers in their hair and a whole lot of fishing lures. There are several photos in the Loyd Sandgren Collection shot at the Florida Fishing Tackle Manufacturing Company (Barracuda Brand) in St. Petersburg, FL which would have been shot in 1946 when he was working for the state out of Tallahassee, […]
19 Aug 2011
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Studio portrait of an unidentified female professional wrestler. One of the only wrestler photos I’ve seen in the Loyd Sandgren collection that was not shot at an event.
09 Aug 2011
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Unidentified model on an unknown beach with a conch shell and a beautiful smile. Sorry guys, judging from the ring she is spoken for. Late 1940’s?
05 Aug 2011
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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 […]
04 May 2011
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“A great model and beautiful, her name, Connie Hines. She later won the big prize in New York on the $64,000 game show. Because of that she got a contract in the movies. She appeared in the TV series Mr. Ed. She was the wife on that show. She was in many movies.” LS Hines […]