Item is a postcard labelled "A "Joy Ride" in Florida," sent from Aunt [Margaret?] in Leesburg, Florida to Bobbie Neilan [sic] at 35 1/2 Mile. The front of the card has an image of 9 African-American children riding a large alligator along a palm tree-lined stream.
On the back of the card is a handwritten message from the sender to her nephew Robert Jardine-Neiland. In the top left-hand corner is a printed poem. There is a green one-cent American postage stamp in the top right corner. The card is postmarked February 27 9 PM 1935 in Leesburg.
Photograph looking over Alta Lake towards Wedge Mountain. There are two cabins on the East side of the lake. This could be the cabins of the Barnfield family or Grace Woollard.
Photograph of a building taken from across Alta Lake around 1930. The building is presumably that belonging to Ernie Archibald. The inscription on the verso reads "Archibald Place, Alta Lake, about 1930."
Photograph of Donald Jardine as a baby in a hand-made sleigh made out of an old apple crate at 34 1/2 Mile [Function Junction area]. The handwriting on the verso reads "Dec. 30 after a sleigh ride, 1947-48, Donald Jardine at 34 1/2 mile, north side."
Photograph of Jenny Betts with her children Louise, Sam, and Jerry and a cousin of the children's, Alfred. The annotation on the recto reads "Us again" and on the verso reads "Janet Betts, Louise Betts, Sam Betts, Jerry Betts, Alfred Betts (cousin), about 1947 at 34 1/2 mile."
![Alpine scene on [Sproatt Mountain?]](/uploads/r/null/2/0/20209/WA_2011_014_052_SMITH_142.jpg)
![[Alta] Lake with Wedge Mountain in the background](/uploads/r/null/2/0/20501/WA_2011_014_088_SMITH_142.jpg)
