C. 1870s photograph of the 1808 City Gate of St. Augustine, Florida.


Photograph of the re-built city gates of St. Augustine, Florida, constructed in 1808 in the waning years of Spanish colonial rule. The gates were part of the city’s outer defenses known as the Cubo Line. Behind the gate’s two massive coquina stone block pillars stretches the causeway over the moat.

The Florida Club, which published this view, was founded after 1873 by two early stereo photographers in St. Augustine, Charles Seaver, Jr. and George Pierron. The views were printed “in Boston and the first selections were for sale in St. Augustine and Jacksonville in early 1874… Some Florida Club views have been found on early-style square cornered mounts [e.g., exactly like the present example] but there is no evidence that any were sold before 1874. These ‘early’ views remain a mystery.”¹


Description: C. 1870s photograph of the 1808 City Gate of St. Augustine, Florida.

[St. Augustine:] The Florida Club, aft. 1873.  Series imprint on left: “St. Augustine Views, By the Florida Club.” Light rubbing and soiling; very good.

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Note. 1. Waldsmith, “The Florida Club” in Stereo World, Vo. 9, No. 5 (Columbus, 1982), p20.


Price: $45.00

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