Bird's Eye View of Orlando, 1884
Orlando (Fla.)
Post offices
An elevated view of Orlando, Florida, in 1884. The lithograph focused on Sinclair's Real Estate Agency, located on the corner of Pine Street and South Orange Avenue. Other sites highlighted in the lithograph include the home of J. G. Sinclair, the home of N. L. Mills, the new Orange County Jail, and Orange County Courthouse, the opera house, the Orlando Masonic Hall, the South Florida Seminary, the Charleston House, and the Summerlin House. The lithograph also marks various manufactories, mills, churches, and the South Florida Railroad Depot. The Orlando area was originally occupied by the Creek and Seminole tribes. In 1838, Fort Gatlin was erected on the shores of Lake Gatlin, just a few miles south of present-day Downtown Orlando. Centered around Church Street, Orlando became a city in 1884, the year that this lithograph was created<br /><br />Originally a cattle town, Orlando grew into a major citrus growing center by the 1920s. The city continued to grow during the Great Depression with aid from the Work Progress Administration (WPA). During World War II, Orlando became a major military center as well, with the development of the McCoy Air Force Base and Pinecastle Air Force Base, and with the addition of the Naval Training Center (NTC) Orlando in 1968. Downtown Orlando declined in the 1960s and 1970s. Redevelopment began in the 1970s and continued into the 1980s, with projects such as the Church Street Station entertainment complex. In 1998, a building boom began and continued through the 2000s.
Beck, Adam
Pauli, Clemens J.
Original black and white lithograph by Adam Beck and Clemens J. Pauli, 1884: Private Collection of Texann Ivy Buck.
Stoner, J. J.
Buck, Texann Ivy
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Sinclair's Real Estate Agency, Orlando, Florida
Hotel Villa Plumosa Postcard
Tarpon Springs (Fla.)
Hotels--Florida
A postcard depicting the exterior of the Hotel Villa Plumosa, am historic hotel in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Located at the corner of West Orange Street and Grand Boulevard, the hotel was incorporated in 1937 by Crawford Staley and his wife, Marion L. Parsons Staley, who ran Hotel Villa Plumosa for 40 years. The business was voluntarily dissolved in 1985.<br /><br />This postcard is part of a collection of postcards kept by Lucile Campbell, a schoolteacher in Sanford, Florida, for 30 years. In 1931, she took advantage of a special rate for teachers and sailed to Europe, where she traveled for several months and is thought to have acquired many of these postcards. During the 1940-1941 school year, Campbell taught at Sanford Grammar School. Before her retirement in 1970, she taught at many other area schools, including the Oviedo School, Westside Grammar School, and Pinecrest Elementary School. Campbell used these postcards as aids in her classrooms to teach advanced subjects, such as Shakespearean drama. The collection, along with her other teaching aids, papers, and photographs, was later found at Sanford Grammar School after it became the University of Central Florida's Public History Center. Campbell's postcard collection and photographs provide insight into the life of a respected Florida educator.
Gulf Stream Card and Distributing Company
Original 4 x 6 inch color postcard by the Gulf Stream Card and Distributing Company: ACC# SM-00-243, file folder 1 (U.S. blanks), box 10A, Lucile (Mary Lucile) Campbell Collection, <a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>, Sanford, Florida.
Curt Teich and Company
Campbell, Lucile
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Hotel Villa Plumosa, Tarpon Springs, Florida
Grant's Tourist Guide of Orlando, Florida with Map
Orlando (Fla.)
Tourism--Florida--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Tourist guide of Orlando, Florida published in 1919. Grant's Tourist Guide includes a sketch of Orlando written by Samuel A. Robinson and delivered as a speech in 1918 to the Orlando Board of Trade. The guide has numerous printed photographs of Orlando landmarks and ads for various hotels, boarding houses and other tourist-orient businesses.
Grant, Homer D.
Original booklet by Homer D. Grant: <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11004577" target="_blank"><em>Grant's Tourist Guide of Orlando, Florida with Map</em></a> (DeLand, Florida: E. O. Painter Printing Company, 1919).
E. O. Painter Printing Company
Cook, Thomas
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