Historical Significance--This brochure represents a fascinating intersection of four distinct tourism histories.(1) It documents the 'Seabreeze' era of Daytona history when the beach was world-famous as an 'Automobile course' for land-speed records.(2) The 'Ask Mr. Foster' stamp connects the item to Ward G. Foster, whose St. Augustine travel agency became.....
This brochure is historically significant for how it documents Daytona's pivotal transition from a seasonal seaside village to the 'World Center of Racing.' While it advertises a hotel, the interior photography focuses heavily on the automobile culture that defined the roaring twenties in Florida, specifically the land speed record attempts.....
Historical Significance:This brochure documents a pivotal transition in Daytona Beach history.[1][2] The 'Second' Hotel Clarendon (built 1911 after the 1909 fire) was the premier hostelry of the area, known for its 'fireproof' brick construction in an era of wooden hotels. The stamp 'Harrington Mills, Pres.'[3] dates this specific copy to circa.....
A book of recipes - "a number of them hitherto unpublished" - presented to promote buying a home and moving to Cooper City, Florida.Background Information:Cooper City is a city in Broward County, Florida. The city is named for Morris Cooper, who founded the community in 1959.
Chicago: Rogers & Smith Co., c1890. This scarce brochure highlights the Frost Proof Orange Grove on which the Inn was located. Henry Flagler's East Coast Railroad had reached West Palm Beach in 1894. There is a reference to the railroad reaching Frost Proof. "Ercildoune Inn sat atop the bluff on.....
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: FORT LAUDERDALE AND THE POSTWAR TOURISM BOOM. During the postwar decades, Fort Lauderdale developed a distinctive identity around its waterways, recreational boating, residential canals, and expanding tourist accommodations. The photographs capture several elements of this transformation, from Bahia Mar and the New River waterfront to residential developments along.....
The brochure presents Daytona Beach as a resort offering climate, recreation, and convenience rather than luxury. Emphasis is placed on lawn bowling, golf, shuffleboard, fishing, surf bathing, and especially motoring, signaling the growing importance of automobile tourism. The Green Tree Inn is positioned as homelike rather than grand, with heated.....
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1954. Near Fine Folded Brochure. The Bahamas trip was to be on the S. S. Nassau and several hotel choices are pictured and described. The Miami Beach stay would be at the classic Casablanca on "America's Riveria"
St. Augustine: The Record Company, c1935. Stapled Decorated Wraps. Full Title: Key West: Where the Tropics Really Begin; There is All-Year Fishing; There Has Never Been a Frost; You Can Go to Sea in Your Car; The Sun Rises and Sets in the Sea; African Tribal Dances Can Be Seen;.....
Lynchburg, VA: J. P. Bell Co., c1913. Stapled Wraps. An uncommon promotional item with only three institutional holdings all in Florida. Though only one may be an actual print copy at the University of Miami. [OCLC: 1819646]Subjects: Orlando (Fla.) -- Pictorial works. Florida -- Orlando.
Winter Park, Florida: The Rollins Press, Inc., [ca. 1925]. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: SELLING THE CITY BEAUTIFUL. Capturing Orlando during its emergence as a substantial Florida tourist and commercial center, this brochure documents the city decades before its identity became associated with the large-scale attraction industry. Its promotional text presents a population.....
Ray Anthony is an American bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter, and former actor. He is the last surviving member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra.Miami Beach was the number one tourist destination in all of America and the ‘big room’ hotels such as the Fontainebleau, Eden Roc, Deauville and Carillon were collectively a......
Fold-out brochure with 24 plus photographs featuring Charlie Cyprus. Seminole Indians, Ross Allen, Aunt Silla and more.Background Information:In the years right after the American Civil War, Silver Springs began to attract tourists from the North via steamboats up the Silver River. Hart Line and Lucas Line steamboat companies competed for.....
The mailer presents Walt Disney World as a carefully ordered environment of leisure and spectacle, emphasizing architectural icons, attractions, and resort amenities. Designed to be mailed or kept as a compact memento, it reflects early Disney marketing strategies that balanced accessibility, affordability, and visual impact during the park’s opening decade.Contextual.....
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE While St. Augustine is often celebrated for the opulence of the Ponce de Leon Hotel, its secondary economy relied heavily on 'medical tourism.' The Worley Sanitarium represents the transition of private residences into specialized health facilities. Dr. S. M. Worley operated this retreat during a pivotal era of.....
Uncommon with only two institutional copies in Florida libraries. [OCLC/WorldCat].
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Michele Albion explores an important facet of Edison's life that is largely unknown. In doing so, she presents the full story of his professional and leisure time while on holiday. Particularly interesting.....
USA: Alcoa Steamship Company. Background Information:A look to the cruising past when Alcoa operated three passenger cargo liners to the West Indies. Modern ships - elegant yet casual service. Alcoa (formerly the Aluminum Company of America) developed its own shipping line to carry bauxite from its source in what is.....
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —The National Audubon Society guides, particularly the state-specific editions of the late 1990s, set the gold standard for portable American natural history. This 1998 Florida edition remains a high-water mark for the series, reflecting the peak of high-gloss color identification technology before.....
St. Petersburg: Great Outdoors, 1962. Stapled Wraps. Tips and techniques for all types of fishing. Written specifically for Florida waters.
Philadelphia: Art Press, Loughead & Co., 1893. String-tied Wraps. The Hotel Indian River was large resort hotel in Central East Florida built in 1884-1885, near Cape Canaveral, which operated for a few decades. Located in what is now Rockledge along the western shore of the Indian River. It is adjacent.....
Chicago, Ill. Arcadia Groves Co., c.1912. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: SELLING AGRICULTURAL PROSPERITY —Published during the height of the pre-World War I Florida land rush, this pamphlet demonstrates the sophisticated marketing strategies used by northern-backed development companies (the Arcadia Groves Co. was headquartered in Chicago) to draw investment into the Florida interior. By.....
Chicago: M. A. Donahue & Company, 1913. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Motor Boat Boys Series #5. A series of adventure books featuring six teen-aged boys and their adventures on various waterways.
Chicago: Curt Teich, 1938. The Mountain Lake Sanctuary and Singing Tower in Lake Wales, Florida, now known as Bok Tower Gardens, is a historic site established in the 1920s by Edward W. Bok, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor. The sanctuary, situated atop Iron Mountain—the highest point in peninsular Florida—was designed as.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926. First Edition, First Printing. Students of Florida flora find it increasingly fascinating due to its unique blend of northern, southern, and subtropical species, alongside epiphytic air plants, orchids, insectivorous varieties, and endemic species. The flora's diverse habitats, such as prairies, sandhills, fern grottoes, pinelands.....