First Street 1877
This is an especially dated dry plate photograph of approximately the same area as the 1910 cityscape. The contrast between the two images are quite striking. Taken at about the same time as the Palmetto House photograph, it is apparent that the majority of Sanford's buildings prior to the fire of 1887, were built of wood, without much structural integrity. If one were to subtract the palm trees from the photograph, this image of Sanford could easily be mistaken for a frontier mining town in the American West. The photograph shows signs of flaking emulsion, as there is mildĀ discoloration throughout the image, and blurring along its edges.