Jacksonville in vintage postcards : between the great fire and the great war.

Publication

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Jacksonville in vintage postcards : between the great fire and the great war.

Entry/Object ID

Library.814

Description

128 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm. Jacksonville in vintage postcards : between the great fire and the great war by Jacksonville Historical Society and Robert Basford. Dedicated to Emily Retherford Lisska. Includes bibliography. Contents: On the waterfront -- City scenes -- Government and commercial buildings -- Clubs and orders -- Hotels -- Houses of worship -- Parks -- Environs -- Jacksonville is amused -- The alligator border series. Jacksonville photographer O. Rust provided many local shots to postcard publishers The Great Fire of May 3, 1901 marked at once the end and the beginning of the City of Jacksonville. A thriving port and a center for business and tourism until that point, Jacksonville was devastated by the conflagration, and yet, even before the ashes had cooled, a building boom began. Prominent and aspiring architects flocked to the area and the opportunities it afforded them to create a "twentieth century city." Jacksonville's ensuing era of reconstruction and growth, which would continue until the United States entered World War I in 1917, helped to define the city's present personality and appearance. The popularity of the postcard reached its zenith in the first decades of the twentieth century, just as Jacksonville was rebuilding, and much of the city's development was illustrated on them. Over 200 postcard views portray the changing face of Jax between the Great Fire and the Great War...back cover Previously published: Charleston, SC; Arcadia Publishing, 2001 Then reprinted in 2003..

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

Jacksonville (Fla.) -- History., Jacksonville (Fla.) -- Pictorial works., Postcards -- Florida -- Jacksonville.

Publication Details

Author

Jacksonville Historical Society, Basford, Robert. Ripley, Joseph W. Gridley, Shannon Jeter.

Edition

Reprint

Publisher

Arcadia

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Charleston, SC

Call No.

F 319 .J1 J37 2003

ISBN

0738506834

LCCN

20010189120