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FLORIDA SOUTHERN
COLLEGE: ANNIE PFEIFFER CHAPEL 2017 (1938 -
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FLORIDA
SOUTHERN COLLEGE ANNIE PFEIFFER CHAPEL EXTERIOR
2017 ANNIE PFEIFFER
CHAPEL INTERIOR 2017
E. T. ROUX LIBRARY EXTERIOR
2017
ADDITIONAL WRIGHT STUDIES |
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Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 - S.251). Set
of 20 exterior and 38 interior photographs of the Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel, photographed on April 4, 2017. On a trip to
Florida, we took the opportunity to visit and photograph the
Florida Southern College Campus. Designed by Frank Lloyd
Wright between 1939 to 1954, the Annie Pfeiffer Chapel was
the first, designed in 1939. April 4 was a beautiful, sunny
Florida spring day.
Wright's first visit to the
Florida Southern College campus was in May, 1938. The ground
breaking ceremony was held on May 24, 1938. Wright's second
visit was in December, 1938 to oversee construction of the
Chapel. Dedication of the Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel was held on March 9, 1941.
Henry-Russell Hitchcock wrote: “The largest commission
Wright has undertaken since the Imperial Hotel twenty years
before, in the number of separate buildings and the
organization of the group plan the most elaborate and
complex that has ever come to execution, is Florida Southern
College in Lakeland, Florida. The project dates from 1938
and the first of the sixteen buildings planned were begun in
1940. The Ann Pfeiffer Memorial Chapel and three seminar
buildings have been completed; the library is now in
construction; so that the general character of the whole can
now be appreciated, although it will doubtless be many years
more before the whole group is completed...
“The separate buildings, woven together as one by the
covered esplanades, are chiefly constructed of cement
blocks, their delicately patterned surfaces contrasted with
smooth vertical concrete slabs. The scale of the blocks is
smaller than in the California work and the Arizona projects
of the twenties. The more frequent use of pierced blocks,
with the interstices sometimes filled with cast coloured
glass, gives a rather textile effect, light, cool and
serene, almost feminine in the manner of crisply starched
white hamburg lace. Since the natural environment is all a
matter of the flat planes of land and water in which the
quality of the light and of the air are the most important
elements, the architecture, unlike the houses in the wooded
North or on the rock-ribbed desert, makes no use of wood or
of natural stone. It is, indeed, a very unmaterial
architecture and yet not papery, since the blocks give a
certain visible thickness to the thin-spun, tenuously
interwoven planes, and the whole is penetrated by the air
and animated by the delicate pattern of the shadows cast by
the brilliant sun....” In The Nature of Materials, 1942,
p.99-100.
On October 19, 1944 Lakeland was struck by a hurricane with
winds up to 75 mph. Part of the main structure of the Chapel
collapsed, the huge skylights were shattered, and many of
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seats in the auditorium were damaged.
It took more than a year to repair the chapel.
In 1948 Mr. Wright wrote: "Dr. Ludd M. Spivey is the hero of
Florida Southern College. When he flew from Lakeland to
Taliesin about ten years ago (1938) he came for the avowed
purpose of giving the U.S. at least one example of a college
wherein modern life was to have the advantages of modern
science and art in actual buiding construction. The overall
plan of the buildings shown here was the result. Since that
time indefatigable efforts of the good Doctor have found
ways and means to build them. We have finished the chapel,
the library and several seminars; the administration
building and the swimming pool are under construction.
"The entire scheme is given an outdoor garden character fit
for Florida by the continuous esplanades which connect all
the buildings. When building is completed, the U.S. will
have at least one example of the cultural value of organic
buildings well suited to time, purpose and place.
"All walls and structural members are reinforced
cast-concrete. Roofs, eventuating into trellises are
intended to be vine-covered. Color of the buildings inside,
as out, is a warm tan - lighter on the plane sur-faces.
Roofing edges down over the eaves are in verdigris bands of
copper detailed to drip, so that no gutters are needed.
Acoustics are especially fine. The buildings do not crowd
each other, each has its own stretch of esplanade and
intervening trees."
Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph, 1937-1941,
Pfeiffer, 1986/1990, p.104.
Textile block construction was used throughout the Frank
Lloyd Wright designed buildings at Florida Southern College
from 1938 - 1954, and again in 2013 in the FSC Usonian
House. Two “C” shaped channels can be found in this
fragment. The block’s pattern on the face of the block can
also be found. The aggregate mixture for the concrete block
would consist of soil and crushed stone from the building's
site, creating a light tan mix. Explore the campus and
you’ll discover textile blocks used throughout the Frank
Lloyd Wright designed buildings at Florida Southern College.
We
have assembled a set of 20 exterior and 38 interior
photographs of the Annie Pfeiffer Chapel, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. These photographs aim
to capture and preserve a moment in time, documenting the
intricate details that contribute to the overall design and
reflecting the current condition of the home. To expedite
their addition to our website, we have chosen to omit
individual descriptions for each image. Original 23 X 15
high res digital images. |
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EXTERIOR 2017
INTERIOR 2017 |
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ANNIE PFEIFFER
CHAPEL - EXTERIOR 2017 |
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| 1) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Exterior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-1). |
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| 2) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Exterior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-2). |
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| 3) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Exterior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-3). |
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| 4) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Exterior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-4). |
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| 5) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Exterior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-5). |
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| 6) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Exterior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-6). |
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| 7) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Exterior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-7). |
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| 8) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Exterior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-8). |
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| 9) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Exterior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-9). |
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| 10) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Exterior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-10). |
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| 11) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Exterior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-11). |
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| 12) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Exterior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-12). |
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| 13) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Exterior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-13). |
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| 14) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Exterior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-14). |
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| 15) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Exterior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-15). |
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| 16) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Exterior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-16). |
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| 17) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Exterior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-17). |
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| 18) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Exterior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-18). |
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| 19) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Exterior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-19). |
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| 20) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Exterior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-20). |
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ANNIE PFEIFFER
CHAPEL - INTERIOR 2017 |
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| 21) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-21). |
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| 22) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-22). |
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| 23) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-23). |
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| 24) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-24). |
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| 25) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-25). |
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| 26) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-26). |
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| 27) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-27). |
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| 28) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-28). |
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| 29) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-29). |
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| 30) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-30). |
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| 31) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-31). |
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| 32) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-32). |
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| 33) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-33). |
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| 34) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-34). |
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| 35) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-35). |
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| 36) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-36). |
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| 37) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-37). |
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| 38) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-38). |
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| 39) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-39). |
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| 40) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-40). |
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| 41) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-41). |
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| 42) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-42). |
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| 43) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-43). |
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| 44) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-44). |
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| 45) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-45). |
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| 46) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-46). |
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| 47) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-47). |
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| 48) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-48). |
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| 49) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-49). |
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| 50) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-50). |
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| 51) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-51). |
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| 52) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-52). |
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| 53) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-53). |
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| 54) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-54). |
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| 55) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-55). |
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| 56) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-56). |
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| 57) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-57). |
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| 58) Florida Southern College, Annie
Pfeiffer Chapel Interior, Lakeland, Florida, 2017 (1938 -
S.251). 23 X 15 high res digital image, photographed by
Douglas M. Steiner on April 4, 2017. Copyright 2026.
(ST#2017.62.0426-58). |
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