Tag: Clyde Steamship Company

  • October 18, 1925The last day of the S.S. Comanche

    October 18, 1925

    The last day of the S.S. Comanche

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    In the last two decades of the 19th century and well into the 1930s, the best route to Florida was by sea on a ship operated by the Clyde Steamship Company. Clyde was a transportation line connecting New York City with several ports in Florida, but primarily Jacksonville. William “Bill” Clyde founded the company in…

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George Miller
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Few people today remember when someone who wanted to take photographs had to buy a camera. That’s right, telephones with cameras are a fairly new combination. A telephone was a telephone; a camera was a camera! Kodak’s Model No. 3A camera is how all those real photo postcards came to be.

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