Common Sense about Florida — title page, 1888
The title page of O. M. Crosby’s promotional book, the earliest known publication that names Avon Park in print. It gives the full title, Common Sense about Florida and information regarding Lake Forest and Avon Park, model south Florida enterprises, with a chapter of Florida drawbacks, and identifies Crosby as General Manager, writing from an office at 99 Franklin Street, New York, with branches in Florida.
The stamp is the Florida State Library’s, from the copy that was digitized.
Credit line
O. M. Crosby, Common Sense about Florida (New York: South Publishing Co., 1888), title page. 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
- Report: the founding of Avon Park
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- Rights
- public-domain — Published in the United States in 1888; copyright expired Held by Internet Archive. Original item
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