Illustrated Florida. by Dodge Art Publishing Co - 1882

Buffalo: Dodge Art Publishing Co.. Very Good. 1882. Set of twenty chromolithographic views of Florida nineteen of which are on card stock (the twentieth serving a cover for publisher's slipcase). Some erosion to cloth on back panel of slipcase, to which is adhered a large oval tradecard for Ashmead Brothers, Publishers and Stationers, Jacksonville, Florida. Set is complete, as collated against the University of Miami copy. This early piece of Floridiana was produced when Florida had a total population of only 270,000. It was produced several years before oil baron Henry Flagler's discovery of St. Augustine. With Flagler's boosterism and investment the first northerners with money enough to escape cold winters began to descend on the state. The set includes illustrations of Lower St. Johns River (slipcase card); Bay Street, Jacksonville (title card); Residence Street, Jacksonville; Views in St. Augustine; Street in St. Augustine; Old Spanish Fort and Harbor, St. Augustine; Balls Orange Arch, St. Augustine; On the Upper St. Johns River; The Mitchell Estate, St. Johns River; Orange Grove, St. Johns River; Moonlight on St. Johns River; Ocklawaha River by Day; Ocklawaha, Night; Sunrise, Orange Lake; Fernandina Harbor; River Front, Palatka; Ruins of Dungeness; Silver Spring; Way Down in Dixie and The Sunny Land of Fruit and Flowers (Richard West).; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.