A father and his two children pose in front of what looked to be a great crop of corn, all smiles on this sunny day. They are standing behind a roughly erected but effective barbed wire fence. During this time period, much of Florida was converted to farmland. It was not without a negative environmental impact, particularly to the Everglades.
This image comes to us from the collection of Fred Bodin, who was both a collector and photographer based in Gloucester, Massachusetts. A photojournalist, Fred spent much of his career working for Yankee Magazine. When Fred passed away in 2016, HIP purchased his collection of photographs and negatives from his estate. Fred collected the work of many New England photographers, including the work of his grandmother, Alice Curtis. Unfortunately, we're not sure which of them took this particular shot.
