Open the scan · O. M. Crosby, Common Sense about Florida (New York: South Publishing Co., 1888). Florida State Library copy, via Internet Archive.
Common Sense about Florida, 1888
The full 26-page scan of O. M. Crosby’s promotional pamphlet, the earliest publication found so far 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, with Crosby named as General Manager at 99 Franklin Street.
The copy digitized is the Florida State Library’s, stamped on the title page and carrying the accession number 34801.
What is in it
An address “To the interested but suspicious reader,” which opens by admitting that Florida land promotion had earned its bad name; a frontispiece plate of a lake through pines; descriptions of Lake Forest and Avon Park as going concerns; and, unusually for the genre, a chapter on Florida’s drawbacks. The references page names C. H. Mallory & Co., ex-Governor J. L. Chamberlain, Hamilton Disston, and three Florida banks.
Credit line
O. M. Crosby, Common Sense about Florida (New York: South Publishing Co., 1888). Florida State Library copy, via Internet Archive.
Rights
Published in the United States in 1888. Copyright expired.
Original item: https://archive.org/details/commonsenseabout00cros
Related
- Reference: Crosby, Common Sense about Florida (1888)
- Oliver Marvin Crosby
- Image: the title page
- Image: the frontispiece plate
- Full text of this pamphlet, transcribed
Where this comes from
- Review
- unverified — Drafted from sources but not yet checked by a volunteer.
- Rights
- public-domain — Published in the United States in 1888; copyright expired Held by Internet Archive. Original item
Sources
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