DAN SANBORN'S LAKELAND:
IMAGES OF THE CITY

Dan Sanborn chronicled the history and development of Lakeland in pictures for more than thirty years.  Fortunately for future generations of Lakelanders, Sanborn donated more than 6000 negatives of his photos of Lakeland to the Special Collections unit of the Lakeland Public Library.  

This is the fifth in a series of  online tours of "Dan Sanborn's Lakeland," in which we share with our patrons what Dan saw through his camera lens. .  During his long career, Dan documented in pictures the changing face of Lakeland, from the Ku Klux Klan marching on Florida Avenue to the Detroit Tigers in spring training, to army air force cadets training for war at the Lodwick School of Aeronautics, to the ever evolving architectural  landscape of the city. 

This installment features the students and campus of Florida Southern College, which has been a fixture on the shores of Lake Hollingsworth since its arrival in Lakeland in the early 1920's.  This installment also gives a lens-eye view of the citrus and phosphate industries, the basis for much of Lakeland's early prosperity.

Just click on the links below to get to "Dan Sanborn's Lakeland." 

FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE    Campus          Students                                                       Ludd Spivey    Marguerite Wills

CITRUS INDUSTRY    Citrus

PHOSPHATE INDUSTRY     Phosphate