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.