The Florida Keys and Key West occupy a singular place in Florida’s cultural and visual history. Shaped by isolation, maritime trade, tourism, and mythmaking, the region has generated distinctive travel ephemera, imagery, and printed material.
The pieces gathered here reflect the Keys as both destination and idea, preserving records of a place long defined by passage, weather, and a deliberate distance from the mainland.
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;.....
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.
![Item #21914 Key West Shopping And Vacation Guide [With Associated Newspaper Supplement]. Sue with...](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21914.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1776461331)
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE --Key West in 1957 was a city in transition. While the guide celebrates the 'Old Island' charm and 100-year-old mahogany buildings, the frequent mentions of the Naval Annex and the growing shrimp industry point to an island increasingly integrated into the national economy.The presence of the Coral Tribune.....
![Item #19394 [Angling; Florida History] Adventures with Rod and Harpoon Along the Florida Keys....](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/19394.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1727885263)
New York: F. A. Stokes, 1925. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth Hardcover. Wendell Endicott was one of America's most enthusiastic sports fishermen this book is his magnum opus, an important piece of Florida history and a lasting contribution to folklore and fishing in the Keys. This exciting commentary is filled.....
Key West: Malone & Strunk, 1989. Stiff Illustrated wraps. The history of early Key West is told through this collection of Postcards from the early 1900s.
![Item #19153 The Young Wrecker on the Florida Reef [Key West - 19th Century]. Richard Meade Bach](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/19153.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1725052881)
Key West, Flordia: The Ketch and Yawl Press, 1999. Reprint. A fifteen-year-old boy from New York, in 1839, finds himself thrust into a sea-going adventure in the Florida Keys. A popular book when first published in 1869, The Young Wrecker offers a wonderful depiction of nineteenth-century life in South Florida.....
Key West: Phantom Press, 2003. Third Printing. Softcover in wraps. Key West's past comes alive with thirteen incredible stories of the southernmost ghosts. From Victorian era spirits returning to claim what is rightfully theirs, to haunted dolls that continue to send chills down their visitors' spines, Ghosts of Key West.....
![Item #013668 [Florida History] The Florida Keys: A History of the Pioneers. John Viele](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/013668.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1648075546)
Sarasota, FL: Pineapple Press, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The stories of the Florida Keys hardy pioneers and their predecessors, as far back as the Native Americans who lived on the Keys at least 1,000 years ago, are told, many for the first time, in this.....
![Item #011532 [Florida History] Yesterday's Florida Keys. Stan Windhorn, Wright Langley](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/011532.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1647557006)
Key West, Florida: Langley Press, 1974. Soft cover. A complete record of the subtropical island chain at the southern tip of the Florida peninsula-a nostalgic history in hundreds of photographs, telling of the lives of the powerful and the meek, of joys and sorrows, and the power of the elements.".....
![Item #21672 Key West, Florida [WPA American Guide Series] [Rothstein Photographs] [1941]. WPA -...](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21672.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1772040061)
New York: Hastings House, 1941. HISTORICAL SUMMARY: THE WPA IN KEY WESTBy the mid-1930s, Key West had famously 'declared bankruptcy' and turned its administration over to the Federal Government. This guidebook is the literary result of that intervention. It captures the city in a state of reinvention, moving away from.....