LIVING HISTORY
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One of Hill’s biggest commissions
at the time came
from a fellow named Henry
M. Flagler. The oil and railroad
tycoon made Hill the official
photographer for his Florida
East Coast Oversea Extension,
the rail line to Key West.
Flagler liked Hill’s work, and
on April 23, 1907, he wrote the
photographer to say so: “the
album containing two hundred
views thus far taken along the
Key West Extension of the F. E.
C. Ry, has given me entire satisfaction.”
With all of the orders coming
into the Florida Photographic
Concern other family members
had to take on more responsibilities.
No one in Fort Pierce
other than Harry and his
brother Fred, listed “photographer”
as their occupation in the
1910 U. S. Census. After Perry
Corell’s departure, the Florida
Photographic Concern was primarily
a family affair. Harry’s
wife, Kate, and his brother,
Fred, maintained the business ST. LUCIE COUNTY REGIONAL HISTORY CENTER
Harry and Catherine Hill and son, Lowell, relax on the family’s Victorian furnishings inside their home next to
the Florida Photographic Concern studio. >>