Lake Lucerne Postcard

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Title

Lake Lucerne Postcard

Alternative Title

Lake Lucerne Postcard

Subject

Orlando (Fla.)
Postcards--Florida
Parks
Lakes--Florida

Description

Lake Lucerne is one of two primary lakes connected with the earliest days of the city of Orlando, Florida. Along with Lake Eola, it defined one of the natural borders of the young town in the 1860s and 1870s. Lake Lucerne sits at the southern end of the Downtown Orlando area. Today Orange Avenue, the main north-south street through the city, crosses the lake on a causeway which nearly divides the lake in half. The East-West Expressway passes directly to the north. The area was one of the first areas developed with houses outside the business district and continues to be one of the jewels of Orlando's park system. The postcard shows two homes, one of which (on the left) is the Dr. Phillips House which was built in 1893 and is currently on the National Register of Historic Places.

Creator

E. C. Kropp Company

Source

Original 5.5 x 3.5 inch color postcard by E. C. Kropp Company: E. C. Kropp Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Private Collection of Thomas Cook.

Publisher

E. C. Kropp Company

Date Created

ca. 1920

Date Copyrighted

ca. 1920

Is Format Of

Digital reproduction of original 5.5 x 3.5 inch color postcard by E. C. Kropp Company: E. C. Kropp Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Is Part Of

Postcard Collection, Thomas Cook Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

Format

application/pdf

Extent

413 KB

Medium

5.5 x 3.5 inch color postcard

Language

eng

Type

Still Image

Coverage

Lake Lucerne, Orlando, Florida
Dr. Phillips House, Orlando, Florida

Spatial Coverage

28.534409, -81.378263
28.535888, -81.375988

Temporal Coverage

1920-01-01/1920-12-31

Accrual Method

Donation

Mediator

History Teacher
Geography Teacher

Provenance

Originally created and published by E. C. Kropp Company.

Rights Holder

Copyright to this resource is held by E. C. Kropp Company and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.

Curator

Cook, Thomas

Digital Collection

Source Repository

Private Collection of Thomas Cook

External Reference

Antequino, Stephanie Gaub, and Tana Mosier Porter. Lost Orlando. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Pub, 2012.
Rajtar, Steve. A Guide to Historic Orlando. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2006.

Transcript

LAKE LUCERNE, ORLANDO, FLA.
POST CARD
PLACE ONE CENT STAMP HERE
FIVE CENTS TO ANYWHERE IN U.S. VIA AIRMAIL
MADE IN U.S.A. BY E. C. KROPP CO., MILWAUKEE, WIS.

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

1 color postcard

Physical Dimensions

5.5 x 3.5 inch

Collection

Citation

E. C. Kropp Company, “Lake Lucerne Postcard,” RICHES, accessed April 26, 2024, https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/1360.

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