DESCRIPTION: Map of Lake County, Florida on an advertising brochure from the Lake County Chamber of Commerce. Fine graphics focused on the agricultural bounty available in a fertile and water-rich Florida. Shows numerous cities in central Florida including Altoona, Eustis, Howey, Clermont, Tavares, Sanford, and Orlando. Inset half-tone black and white illustrations of scenes typical to the area.
Brochure was issued by the Lake County Chamber of Commerce in Tavares, Florida to registrants at the Florida Exhibit during the Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago (the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair).The appeal also reveals how intertwined speculation and infrastructure were along the Georgia coast. The same investors held stock in the City of Brunswick Land Company, the Canal Company, and related ventures such as the Brunswick Land Company trust deed later cited in congressional records. The letter’s rhetoric promised that, once the canal opened, emigrants from Maine would build sawmills, lots near the wharves would sell instantly, and the city would finally justify earlier hopes of becoming a major southern port. It was both a financial circular and a piece of booster propaganda.
In the broader context, the letter marks one of the last organized attempts to complete the antebellum Brunswick Canal before the project faded into insolvency. It ties together every thread found in later documentation—the Ocean Bank trusteeship, D. Randolph Martin’s role as fiduciary, and the continuing pattern of Georgia infrastructure financed through northern capital. The document stands as a vivid example of how local ambition, speculative land companies, and Wall Street banking combined in the mid-nineteenth century to promote internal improvements along the southern seaboard.
PUBLICATION DATE: 1933
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States
BODY OF WATER: Atlantic Ocean
CONDITION: Very good.
Clean with no issues. Folds as issued.
COLORING: Bright process colors with half-tone inset photo illustrations.
ENGRAVER:
SIZE: 11
" x
16 "
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PRICE: $175
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