Movers and Shakers
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Mary (Mrs. William T.) Wheeler Eaton poses with a parasol. Eaton would go on to found the St. Petersburg Historical Society (1920), and the St. Petersburg Museum of History (1922). c. 1888.
C. Bette Wimbish taking oath of office for City Council. Wimbish was the first Black woman to sit on City Council. c. 1969.
Geo Gandy (R) with Eve Alsman (C) and C.C. Carr discuss the construction of Gandy Bridge. Eve Alsman would go on to marry Walter Fuller, a local historian and real estate developer, and she would serve as the state director of Florida's WPA Federal Art Project.
Fannye Ayer Ponder, a social studies teacher at Gibbs High School. Ponder founded the Non-Pariel Club, the City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, and the St. Petersburg Metropoliton Council of Negro Women.
George Snow Hill Studios enlisted their students, namely Lamar Simpson (L), to paint a mural in the St. Petersburg High School Library. Bette Fischer (C) and John Stephens, both SPHS students, assisted. April 1951.
Portrait of John C. Williams. c. 1890
Williams mansion, 444 5th Ave. S., with buggy in front, John & Sarah Williams moved to what would become St. Petersburg in 1887. John Williams died in 1892. Sarah Williams then married Capt. James Armistead, and the pair lived here for a time. Sarah Williams Armistead stands at the front steps.