A Winter Retreat

A northern-style frame house in an oval vignette above a young orange grove.

An engraved plate from Oliver Marvin Crosby’s Florida Facts, Both Bright and Blue (1887). Crosby founded Avon Park two years earlier; these plates are the imagery he and his contemporaries used to sell Florida land to northern buyers, and they should be read as promotion rather than as record.

Credit line

Oliver Marvin Crosby, Florida Facts, Both Bright and Blue (1887), page 22 of the scan. Via Internet Archive.

Rights

Published in the United States in 1887. Copyright expired.

Original item: https://archive.org/details/floridafactsbot00crosgoog

Related

• Document: Florida Facts, Both Bright and Blue, full scan
• Oliver Marvin Crosby

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 1887; copyright expired Held by Internet Archive. Original item

Sources

1. Oliver Marvin Crosby, Florida Facts, Both Bright and Blue

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