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| 5132 |  | Details | J. Walker Pope and Son | 1919 |
| Official Road Map of Polk County Florida, 1919 |
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J. Walker Pope and Son |
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| 1919 |
| LOC:87 |
| $265.00 | J--Walker-Pope-and-Son | Official-Road-Map-of-Polk-County-Florida--1919 | Scarce map of Polk County, Florida highways: "Official Road Map of Polk County Florida, 1919 showing the famous 300 mile system of asphalt paved highways. Approved by J. Walker Pope. President Polk County Good Roads Association, Winter Haven." District roads are shown in dark red. According to advertising copy on the map:
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Polk County ships over a million boxes of citrus fruits and two thousand car loads of winter vegetable annually -- and furnishes over 40 per cent of the world's output of phosphate."
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The map is printed on the verso of a single-sheet folding advertisement for J. Walker Pope and Son of Winter Haven, Florida. Recto with six half-tone photographs including local orange groves, Mountain Lake Golf Course, Lake Wales, and the offices of J. Walker Pope and Richard D. Pope of Winter Haven, Florida.
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J.W. Polk was President of the Polk County Good Roads Association, President of the Winter Haven Motor Club, and Vice-President of the United States Highway Association. |