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 of, from left to right: Jenny Jardine; Thomas Neiland Jr; Howard Gebhart; Robert Jardine, and Lizzie Neiland.
The inscription on the verso reads "My mum Lizzie, Bob Jardine, Howard Gebhart, Tom Neiland, Jenny Jardine Neiland Betts, horse Bill 34 1/2 mile [S&Q] Rly Po".
Photograph of the Neiland / Jardine family in 1924. From left to right: Jack Jardine, Lizzie Neiland, Jenny Jardine (standing), Thomas Neiland Sr., Thomas Neiland Jr., and Bob Jardine. The handwriting on the verso reads "1924".
Photograph of the Neiland / Jardine family. From left to right: Bob Jardine, Jack Jardine, Tom Neiland Sr., Tom Neiland Jr., and Jenny Jardine. The inscription on the verso reads "Tom Neiland (senior), Janet Jardine, Jack Jardine, Robert Jardine, Tommy Neiland (Jr), about 1924."
The photograph may be a later copy of the original.
Two identical photographs of (from left to right) Jack Jardine, Tom Neiland Jr., Jenny Jardine, and Bob Jardine with the cottonwood trees they planted near their property at 34 1/2 Mile [Function Junction area]. The handwriting on the reverse of the first photograph (a) reads "The cotton wood trees we planted, Neiland kids, 1920? 34 1.2 PGE." The handwriting on the reverse of the second photograph (b) reads "about 1924, Janet Jardine, Jack Jardine, Robert Jardine, Tommy Neiland (baby), at 34 1/2 mile."
Photograph of land littered with tree stumps during the clearing of the Neiland property at 34 1/2 Mile [Function Junction area]. In the foreground, a bonfire is built up, unlit. Two small boys, almost certainly Thomas Neiland Jr. and Bob Jardine, are wandering between the stumps.
Photograph of the Jardine family standing outside their home on Alpha Lake. From left to right: Bob Jardine, Jack Jardine, Lizzie Jardine (soon to be Neiland), and Jenny Jardine.
Photograph of Bob Jardine in Air Force uniform standing on the Pacific Great Eastern Railway tracks. He is holding a trolley cart built by Wallace Betts, which ran along one of the tracks.
