Bush Key with Fort Jefferson in the background

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Material Information

Title:: Bush Key with Fort Jefferson in the background
Creator:: Ida Woodward Barron Collection
May Hill Russell Library -- History Dept
Monroe County Public Library System
Publication Date:: 1940/1949
Physical Description:: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.

Subjects / Keywords:: Fortification -- Aerial photographs -- Florida ( lcsh )
Aerial photographs -- Dry Tortugas (Fla.) ( lcsh )
Aerial photographs -- Fort Jefferson (Fla.) ( lcsh )
Aerial photographs -- Monroe County (Fla.) ( lcsh )
Monroe -- 12087 ( ceeus )
Aerial photographs -- Bush Key (Fla.)
Aerial photographs -- Long Key (II) (Fla.)
Genre:: picture ( marcgt )
Coordinates:: 24.628038 x -82.868438

Scope and Content:: An aerial view of Bush Key and Long Key (II) approaching over Long Key (II) with Fort Jefferson in the background. The gap between Long Key (II) was filled in with a sandbar Christmas 1998 and the pair are now merged as Bush Key. It is sometimes called "bird key" because it holds a large tern rookery. All 3 keys are part of the "Dry Tortugas Islands". From the Ida Woodward Barron Collection.
Original Location:: History Dept., May Hill Russell Library; 700 Fleming St., Key West, FL 33040.
General Note:: Photo taken between 1940 and 1949.