Just as Heidi Rich had almost finished designing and assembling A Pictorial History of Palm City Florida, serendipity came into play.
http://Jupiter Lighthouse and Museum
Daughter, Jacqui Thurlow Lippisch, and I attended a meeting of Southeast Florida Archaeological Society at the Hobe Sound Library on January 13, 2024. Josh Liller, the Historian and Collections Manager of the Jupiter Lighthouse and Museum, sat next to us. We talked about our Palm City book project. The following Monday morning I received an email from Josh alerting me to early photos of Palm City being sold on eBay.http://Southeast Florida Archaeological Society
I was amazed when I checked them out. They were the work of Florida Photographic Concern, the main subject of my previous blog posts.
The photographs were found in a flea market near Detroit, Michigan by John Monaghan. They were in a booth selling records where John noticed a stack of photographs for sale. Some of them were identified as Palm City in 1912 and 1913.
Josh Liller’s computer is set up to notify him when something pertaining to Palm Beach history is for sale on eBay. There was one photograph of the Royal Poinciana Hotel in the batch. He already had the Royal Poinciana photograph but he knew Jacqui and I would be interested in the Palm City photographs. We certainly were.
When I contacted John Monaghan, he said that he had just picked out what he thought were the most interesting photographs and he would see if the rest of the photographs were still there when the flea market opened again on the following Sunday.
The photographs were still there and he let me purchase them for what he thought was a fair price. There were 35 photographs in all and I was delighted to obtain them.
I am going to share only one of the Palm City photographs
and take this opportunity to share ones that will not be published in A
Pictorial History of Palm City.