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- Title
- Florida Land and Improvement Company Hamilton Distton's purchase, 4, 000, 000 acres Showing area in which lands have been selected. Offices: Chestnut & Third Sts. Philadelphia, Pa, no. 113 Broadway, New York, Jacksonville, Fla
- Description
- Shows Florida including towns, townships, counties, lakes, islands, and railroads. Also shows the Florida Keys, and parts of Alabama and Georgia. Disston, son of Philadelphia saw mill magnate Henry Disston, purchased the Florida land in 1881., Includes inset of middle and southern Florida showing Orange, Sumter, Polk, Hernando, Manatee, Hillsborough and Monroe counties. Includes towns, rivers, lakes, islands, and railroads, Contains promotional text below neat line describing the advantages of the purchasable land including "Orange Groves, Vineyards, Early Vegetables, Tropical Fruits and Farming - Ready Access by Railroad and Steamboat Lines - Below general frost line - Ready market for products - Social advantages" as well as notice of a "Homestead Installment" plan. Also states to apply to the Florida Land & Improvement Co., N. E. cor. Third & Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia for descriptive map and full information., Includes "References" to railways finished and in progress; townships of 36 square miles; the embracing lands of Florida Land & Improvement Co. and Atlantic & Gulf Coast Canal & Okeechobee Land Co.; and route of Atlantic Coast Steamboat Canal & Improvement Co., Uncut informational pamphlet pages for the land company printed on verso including the names of the officers; descriptions of the area's history topography, politics, society, and climate; financial and legal information about purchases of land; farming tips about where, when, how and what to plant and market; and descriptions of the counties.
- Creator
- Bourquin, F. (Frederick), b. 1808
- Date
- [ca. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***maps -Florida [132 M]
- Title
- An accurate map of the West Indies with the adjacent coast of America
- Description
- Detailed map of the West Indies and depicting part of Florida, Central America, and South America, including the names of the islands, capes, bays, rivers, lakes, and keys of the region. From 1794 to 1815 Britain and France fought for dominion of the West Indies., Title from item., Manuscript note on verso: Winter Botham's America; William Priestman Philadelphia 266 Arch St. 1944., Relief shown by hachures and landform drawings., Depth shown by soundings., Prime Meridian: London., Published in William Winterbotham's An Historical, geographical, commercial and philosophical view of the American United States (London:... H.D. Symonds, Paternoster Row, 1795) vol. IV, between pages 228 and 229, and in later editions of the same work., Accessioned 1879., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
- Creator
- Russell, John, active 1733-1795, engraver
- Date
- Novr. 29, 1794
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *maps-West Indies 1794 [Log 1303.F.6]