President Calvin Coolidge Visits Sanford

President Calvin Coolidge Visits Sanford

President Coolidge Visits Sanford

Sanford (Fla.)

Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933

Chase, Sydney Octavius, 1860-1941

Chase and Company (Sanford, Fla.)

Citrus fruit industry--Florida

Citrus--Florida

President Calvin Coolidge receiving citrus fruit while visiting Sanford, Florida, in 1929. Sydney Octavius Chase, co-owner of Chase & Company, is photographed on the right, wearing a light suit.

Chase & Company was established in 1884 by brothers Sydney Octavius Chase and Joshua Coffin Chase. The company sold insurance and later invested in storage facilities and fertilizer sales. Chase & Company was known mainly for its agricultural interests and maintained a series of citrus groves throughout Central Florida. The company was based out of Sanford and became one of the city's largest employers into the early twentieth century.

Original black and white photographs, February 1, 1929: Chase Collection (MS 14), box 215, Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

1929-02-01

Digital reproduction of original black and white photographs, February 1, 1929.

Chase Collection (MS 14), box 215, Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

Sanford Collection, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

Folder referenced in Chase Collection finding guide, http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm.

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Entire Chase Collection is comprised of four separate accessions from various donors, including Cecilia Johnson, the granddaughter of Joshua Coffin Chase and the children of Randall Chase.

The displayed collection item is housed at Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Rights to this item belong to the said institution, and therefore inquiries about the item should be directed there. RICHES of Central Florida has obtained permission from Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida to display this item for educational purposes only.

Special and Area Studies Collections, University of Florida

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University of Florida, Special and Area Studies Collections

Warner, S.C. "Development of Marketing Citrus Fruits in Florida." Florida State Horticultural Society vol. 36 (1923): 198-200.

Hopkins, James T. Fifty Years of Citrus, the Florida Citrus Exchange: 1909-1959. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press: 1960.

"Sydney Chase Sr. (1860-1941)." Florida Citrus Hall of Fame. Copyright 2012. http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600.

Sanford Historical Society (Fla.). Sanford. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2003.

"Episode 52: An Interview with Jim Clark, Part 2." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/2506.

Clark, James C. Presidents in Florida: How the Presidents Have Shaped Florida and How Florida Has Influenced the Presidents. Sarasota, Fla: Pineapple Press, 2012.

Sydney Chase is the man in the light suit on the right.

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