Family Portrait with Taxidermied Alligator, Jacksonville, Florida. RPPC postcard. 1900-1910. American, photographed in Jacksonville, Florida by J.A. Hollingsworth, Tourist Photographer, Hogan Street, Opposite Park Hotel, Jacksonville, Florida. In the Richard Mette Postcard Collection at the University of South Florida. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/mette_postcardimages/228/Young man posing in front of stuffed alligators. RPPC postcard. 1900-1910. Photographed in Jacksonville, Florida by tourist photographer J. A. Hollingsworth. Claude Pepper Papers, Claude Pepper Library, Florida State University. In the Richard Mette Postcard Collection at the University of South Florida. In the public domain due to age. via https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:34529Portrait of Couple with Taxidermied Alligators; April 12, 1915. American. Photographer not given but presumably Mr. Hollingsworth. Richard Mette Postcard Collection at the University of South Florida. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/mette_postcardimages/225/Thanksgiving Day, Jacksonville, Florida. ca. 1910. . American, photographed in Jacksonville, Florida by J.A. Hollingsworth, Tourist Photographer, Hogan Street, Opposite Park Hotel, Jacksonville, Florida. Jacksonville Public Library Special Collections @jaxlibrary on Instagram. Taken from their Instagram account.Couple posing with stuffed alligators. The alligator the lady is sitting on looks to be the same stuffed alligator as the one in the first image of this blog post. 1908. American, Jacksonville, Florida. Studio photograph printed on a RPPC (Real Picture Post Card). by J. A. HOLLINGSWORTH, Tourist Photographer, Hogan Street opposite the Park Hotel. Found on an internet auction. via Tim Jackson/Florida: A History in Pictures (the Group) on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/124tg7EEH8r/
All but one of these stamped/otherwise marked by popular Tourist Photographer, J.A. Hollingsworth, whose studio on Hogan Street was across from the Park Hotel in Jacksonville but I think the other one is by him too.
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