Florida: the fountain of youth

Publication

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Florida: the fountain of youth

Entry/Object ID

Library.1692

Tags

Library Rare books collection as of June 4 2023

Description

p. 1-93 : illus. (part col.) ; 26 cm. National Geographic magazine, v.17, no. 1, January 1930. Florida: the fountain of youth article. Contains all photographs. Includes information on: Ponce de Leon -- De Narvaez -- Tourist mecca -- Commercial food production -- Yellow fever and mosquitoes -- Flagler and his vision -- Trade with Cuba -- St. Petersburg and its 31 different clubs and societies -- Everglades -- Plants, fruits, vegetables and trees -- Thomas A. Edison -- Various industries such as grinding oyster shells in Jax -- Cigar industry -- Turpentine industry -- Fishing for sport and industry -- Citrus groves and industry -- Railroad growth -- Truck industry -- Cattle industry -- Jacksonville fire of 1901, union depot train station, lumber and shipping port (472 industries making 483 different things). Photographs (some in color) of local interest: Old Fort Marion, St. Augustine -- Ponce de Leon's statue, St. Augustine -- Fountain of Youth, St. Augustine -- Over the St. Johns River Bridge, Jacksonville -- Oldest house in U.S. under 3 flags the Old Spanish Mission Building, St. Augustine -- Alligators on alligator farm on Anastasia Island near St. Augustine -- Famous Hastings potato crop belt in St. Johns County -- Northern Florida tobacco crops and cheesecloth shades -- Cypress lumber piles at Palatka on St. Johns river -- Seminoles -- Cigar-banding machine and cigar-wrapping machine -- Azaleas in bloom along the St. Johns River -- Thomas A. Edison in his laboratory at Ft. Myers -- St. Augustine, oldest house, Ponce de Leon celebration and pageant -- Florida fishing/shrimp trawlers.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Florida -- Description and travel., Florida -- History., Ponce de Leo´n, Juan, -- 1460?-1521., Cigar industry -- Florida -- History., Jacksonville (Fla.) -- History., Saint Augustine (Fla.) -- History., Great Fire, Jacksonville, Fla., 1901., Jacksonville (Fla.) Union Terminal., Saint Johns River (Fla.) -- History.

Publication Details

Author

La Gorce, John Oliver, 1880-1959, National Geographic Society.

Publisher

National Geographic Magazine

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Washington, D. C.

Call No.

Rare Book F 311.5 .L3