Common Sense about Florida (1888)
O. M. Crosby’s promotional pamphlet, the earliest known publication that names Avon Park in print. Its full title is Common Sense about Florida and information regarding Lake Forest and Avon Park, model south Florida enterprises, with a chapter of Florida drawbacks, published in New York by the South Publishing Company from an office at 99 Franklin Street, with Crosby named as General Manager and branches in Florida.
The copy scanned is the Florida State Library’s, accession number 34801.
Title page. O. M. Crosby, Common Sense about Florida (New York: South Publishing Co., 1888). Florida State Library copy, via Internet Archive. Public domain. [crosby-1888-pamphlet]
The frontispiece plate, uncaptioned in the book: a lake through pines and Spanish moss, with a sailboat and two figures. The lake is not named. Florida State Library copy, via Internet Archive. Public domain. [crosby-1888-pamphlet]
References
- crosby-1888-pamphlet — O. M. Crosby. Common Sense About Florida: Lake Forest and Avon Park. 1888. https://archive.org/details/commonsenseabout00cros
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- O. M. Crosby, Common Sense About Florida: Lake Forest and Avon Park (1888)
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