Jacksonville story : a pictorial record of a Florida city, The.

Publication

Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

Library.543

Description

x, 114 p. illus., ports., maps, facsims. 32 cm. The Jacksonville story : a pictorial record of a Florida city by Carolina Rawls. Jacksonville story : a pictorial record of a Florida city, The. Cover title: The Jacksonville Story: Fifty Years of Progress, 1901-1951. Published in observance of the fiftieth anniversary of the city's great fire, May 3, 1901. Bibliography: p. 109. Through the years in Jacksonville is a time line of important events and information from 1901 to1950. Contents: In the beginning (Early history) -- Gay nineties and war with Spain -- Awful Visitation, the fire of 1901 -- Florida's gateway including Jacksonville's street scenes, banks, hotels, Federal Buildings -- City is as strong as municipal departments, hospitals, public information and leaders of government -- Story of growth including homes, points of interest, Chamber of Commerce, Transportation, business and industry, The Armed Forces -- Way of living including beaches, movie-making, parks and recreation, clubs, schools and churches, yesterday, today and tomorrow. Selected photographs include: Mayor Bowden -- Police Chief Vizant - Isaiah D. Hart tomb in Evergreen Cemetery after moved there from site on Laura Street where vandalized and damaged by 1901 fire -- Jacksonville's first football team in 1896- Photographs of various buildings burned -- Copy of Metropolis May 4, 1901 issue and the Florida Times-Union and Citizen from same date -- Brittan's Furniture and Trunk -- Bell Telephone crews whose service during and after fire was impressive -- Bay Street in 1892 -- Bay Street few years after fire -- Woolworth building being built in 1917 -- Orpheum Theatre -- Rhodes Furniture Company -- Public Library -- City Hall -- Duval County Courthouse -- Barnett National Bank aka National Bank of Jacksonville escaped fire -- Hemming Park's land deeded to City in January 23, 1866 -- Confederate Monument erected in 1898 -- Hogan Street -- Downtown in 1910 -- Windsor Hotel -- Seminole Club -- Laura Street -- Post office -- Seminole Hotel -- Arcade Select Rooming House -- Roosevelt Hotel -- Fire Department photos -- Police Department photos including Officer Lotsey operating first traffic signal -- Waterworks at Main near First -- Klutho built his Springfield studio -- Movie titled Under the Gun filming -- Southside's old Park Theatre -- Kalem's Fairfield studios -- Florida Theatre built in 1924 -- Ostrich Farm in Phoenix Park -- Confederate Park formerly known as Dignan developed in 1907 -- Dixieland Park -- Memorial Park sculpture -- Florida Musicale building -- Founders of Kathryn Livingston Chapter, DAR in 1910 -- Duval High School -- Edward Waters College -- Big Jim whistle invented by John Einig and named for Jim Patterson -- First city bought truck in 1911 -- Pablo Beach railroad station in the 1920's.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Jacksonville (Fla.) -- History., Jacksonville (Fla.) -- Pictorial works., Great Fire, Jacksonville, Fla., 1901.

Publication Details

Author

Rawls, Carolina, Corse, Carita Doggett, 1892-

Edition

First edition

Publisher

Jacksonville's Fifty Years of Progress Association

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Jacksonville, FL

Call No.

F 319 .J1 R3 1950

LCCN

51000711