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Kalem Studio in Florida
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Photograph of the winter studios of the Kalem Company showing outbuildings on the grounds of the Roseland Hotel on the St. Johns River near Jacksonville, Florida. The canon were used in Kalem's Civil War themed productions like "The Drummer Girl of Vicksburg" and "The Confederate Ironclad." Kalem filmed there from 1908 until 1917.
1908
Hollister, George K., 1873-1952
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