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One side of a flier handed out by the San Antonio Reptile Garden in the mid-1930s entitled "Reptile Facts." The Reptile Garden opened in the 1930s as a fundraising facility for the Witte Museum. The Garden featured turtle races, snake handling demonstrations, fried rattlesnake meat, and rattlesnake dinner fund raisers. It also became a research center for the use of antivenom. The Garden closed in the early 1940s, its live snakes donated to the San Antonio Zoo.
Date: 1934
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Caption: "Promenade, Daytona Beach, Florida, July 9, 1934." Wide promenade along the beach at Daytona Beach, featuring a row of benches at the left (seaside) and covered seating areas on the right, with palm trees. Daytona Beach was created when the neighboring towns of Daytona, Daytona Beach, Kingston, and Seabreeze merged in 1926. The area's beach was already well-known in both tourist and automobile circles
Date: 7/9/1934
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Caption: "The Ghetto with its Street Venders [sic], New York City. Aug. 12, 1934." Crowded street scene in New York City, with numerous street vendors selling a variety of goods, including vegetables and toiletry supplies.
Date: 8/12/1934
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