HathiTrust Full-Text Search Results
A full-text query of the HathiTrust Digital Library for the phrase “City of Avon Park” yielded 519 full-view results. The corpus primarily comprises local and state governmental surveys, population estimates, and municipal financial reports.
Validated Records
Several highly relevant government records are confirmed in the collection:
- Florida Works Progress Administration (1936): A status report on Work Project No. 1133 (state and local governmental survey) documents the municipal infrastructure and administration during the Great Depression.[hathitrust-wpa-1133]
- Municipal Accounting and Population Data: Routine references appear in the 1983 Uniform Accounting System manual by the Florida Department of Banking and Finance, as well as in multiple U.S. Census Bureau population estimates and socio-economic summaries spanning the 1970s and 1980s.[hathitrust-accounting-1983][hathitrust-census-1987][hathitrust-census-1975]
- Supreme Court Reports: The results included printed bound volumes of United States Supreme Court reports, specifically containing the landmark 1940 municipal bankruptcy decision involving the City of Avon Park and the Crummer Syndicate (already established in the archive’s records).
Rejected Records
The results included Acts and resolutions of the Legislative Council of the territory of Florida (1842). Because Avon Park was not founded until 1886, any apparent mention of the city in 1842 is an anachronism. This must be rejected as an OCR artifact matching separate occurrences of “Avon” and “Park” or resulting from modern bounding materials erroneously indexed with the 1842 text.[hathitrust-acts-1842]
References
- hathitrust-wpa-1133 — United States. Florida Works Progress Administration. Status of work project no. 1133, state no. S-414 : state and local governmental survey / Florida Works Progress Administration. 30 September 1936. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102193367
- hathitrust-accounting-1983 — Florida. Dept. of Banking & Finance. Uniform accounting system : local units of government, State of Florida. 1983. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/103212986
- hathitrust-census-1987 — U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. Estimates of the population of Florida counties and metropolitan areas, July 1, 1981 to 1985. 1987. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102210974
- hathitrust-census-1975 — E. McCloskey, J. A. Long, R. O. Coppedge. Summary of census socio-economic data for. 1975. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007389543
- hathitrust-acts-1842 — Legislative Council of the territory of Florida. Acts and resolutions of the Legislative Council of the territory of Florida passed at its twentieth session. 5 March 1842. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010433395
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Sources
- United States. Florida Works Progress Administration, Status of work project no. 1133, state no. S-414 : state and local governmental survey / Florida Works Progress Administration. (1936)
- Florida. Dept. of Banking & Finance, Uniform accounting system : local units of government, State of Florida. (1983)
- U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Estimates of the population of Florida counties and metropolitan areas, July 1, 1981 to 1985. (1987)
- E. McCloskey, J. A. Long, R. O. Coppedge, Summary of census socio-economic data for... (1975)
- Legislative Council of the territory of Florida, Acts and resolutions of the Legislative Council of the territory of Florida passed at its twentieth session (1842)
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