| | Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
| 5087 |  | Details | Tampa Board of Trade | 1923 |
| Tampa the Strong Box in the Treasure House of Florida |
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Tampa Board of Trade |
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| 1923 |
| LOC:11 |
| $250.00 | Tampa-Board-of-Trade | Tampa-the-Strong-Box-in-the-Treasure-House-of-Florida | Pre-depression advertising map promoting Tampa and Hillsborough County as: "The Strong Box in the Treasure House of Florida". Beneath the map an explanation describes the benefits to be found in Hillsborough County:
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"Containing lands, rich and of infinite variety, adapted for fruit raising, agriculture in all its phases, trucking, poultry farming, stock raising, and all those novelty lines for which Florida is famous. The marketplace of practically all of South and West Coast Peninsular Florida, with over fifty miles of salt water shoreline. Look us over."
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Unusual and scarce. 1923.
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Map image with strong graphics is inside the front cover of 44-page brochure ( 9" x 6") about Tampa, Florida. Brochure wraps covered with images of local leisure activities for Tampa (front) and Hillsboro County (rear). On both covers images of bi-planes cruising aloft attest to the importance of Tampa, Florida as an early aviation center. |