Florence Martus, 1869-1943, Savannah's waving girl [model]. [ca. 1950]

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Martus, Florence, 1868-1943

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Florence Martus (1868–1943), also known as "the Waving Girl", took it upon herself to be the unofficial greeter of all ships that entered and left the Port of Savannah, Georgia, between 1887 and 1931. A few years after she began waving at passing sailors, she moved in with her brother, a light keeper, at his small white cottage about five miles up the river from Fort Pulaski. From her rustic home on Elba Island, a tiny piece of land in the Savannah River near the Atlantic Ocean, Martus would wav...

De Weldon, Felix, 1907-2003

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