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Early 1900's Courtesy of Alvin Lederer

Early 1900's - Warren Frazier, better known as "Alligator Joe", with a manatee in a pen

South Florida


Thank you to Alvin Lederer for sending this old postcard image of "Alligator Joe" Campbell in an awful pose with a manatee. Alvin says that "Alligator Joe" Campbell owned the Alligator Farm in early Miami and later at West Palm Beach. He hunted gators and North American Crocodiles in what is now called "Joe's Bay" by Card Sound Road. He built wooden crates and when Flagler's train was coming back from Key West they would stop at Card Sound and load the creatures for zoo's up north.

There is also a 1907 article in The New York Times archives at
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9801E6DE1E30E233A25750C0A9659C946697D6CF about "Alligator Joe" making the Palm Beach ladies gasp as he towed a 12 foot crocodile into the ocean and then proceed to wrestle it with his bare hands before bringing it back to shore.


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Don Boyd17-Aug-2014 03:17
I agree, what a POS.

Don
Guest 22-Apr-2010 15:11
He looks so proud and arrogant in this picture. I would like to see what would happen to someone nowadays who would pen and step on a manatee.