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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.
Unless otherwise noted under the right bottom of the photo, all images are copyrighted by Don Boyd
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Don Boyd | 17-Aug-2014 03:17 | |
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