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Views of Palm Beach and West Palm Beach, a Souvenir Postcard Booklet of the Midcentury Palm Beaches
KIRKTON, J.F..
Views of Palm Beach and West Palm Beach Florida.
Palm Beach: J.F. Kirkton, 1940.
Souvenir postcard booklet of the Palm Beaches, published by J.F. Kirkton of Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1940. Oblong duodecimo, original printed wrappers, stapled, containing detachable color postcards on linen-finish stock, each captioned and with a postcard verso for mailing. The views record the resort at midcentury: the Breakers Hotel, “the longest popular with the Palm Beach season guests, as it is open especially and fronts the Ocean”; the Beaux Arts Building on the Lake Trail, the “Fashion Center” of Palm Beach; and the Palm Beach County Court House in West Palm Beach, among others. In near fine condition. An attractive survival of Palm Beach souvenir ephemera.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 152235
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West Palm Beach and Palm Beach County: An Early Promotional Booklet for the Palm Beaches, Circa 1915
WEST PALM BEACH BOARD OF TRADE,.
West Palm Beach and Palm Beach County Florida: A Pictorial Tale of Wintertime in Summerland.
West Palm Beach: West Palm Beach Board of Trade, 1915.
Rare promotional booklet for the Palm Beaches, issued by the West Palm Beach Board of Trade circa 1915. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers printed in color and gold, 15 pages, illustrated throughout with photographs, a map of Florida, and a table of comparative climatic data. The booklet presents the winter resorts of Palm Beach County to prospective visitors: among the photographs are the Lake Front Plaza, the gardens of the Royal Poinciana Hotel, Whitehall (described as the winter home of Mrs. Henry M. Flagler, which with the reference to the new Dixie Highway dates the booklet to the years just after Flagler’s death in 1913), a prize sailfish, and the parks of West Palm Beach, with a closing tribute naming Flagler among the world’s great benefactors. A section titled “How to Reach the Palm Beaches” details the named Pullman trains of the Florida East Coast Railway. In very good condition. An evocative survival of the early promotion of the Palm Beaches.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 152215
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Weekly Guide of the Palm Beaches for the Summer of 1952, a Pocket Visitors Guide to the Midcentury Palm Beaches
BOLLING, Jack and Connie.
Weekly Guide of the Palm Beaches: Pocket Size Summer Edition, 1952.
West Palm Beach: Jack and Connie Bolling, 1952.
Summer 1952 issue of the Weekly Guide of the Palm Beaches, the pocket-sized visitors’ guide distributed free throughout the resorts: Volume 3, Number 28, the Summer Edition covering August 17 through September 6, 1952. Duodecimo, original orange pictorial wrappers. Published by Jack and Connie Bolling of West Palm Beach with the approval of the Palm Beach and West Palm Beach Chambers of Commerce, the guide gathers the practical life of the Palm Beaches in the early 1950s: tide charts for the Inlet, airline, railway and Greyhound schedules, the theatre program, church and club directories, news of the Palm Beach Speedway and the West Palm Beach Indians baseball club, a “Welcome, Traveler” column recording arrivals at the hotels and courts by name, and a military activities column reflecting the Korean War years at the Palm Beach Air Force Base. Among the advertisers are the Worth Avenue establishments of the day, including Ocean News at 112 Worth Avenue and Ramon’s Camera Shop at 110 Worth Avenue, “63 steps from the Atlantic Ocean.” In near fine condition. A vivid survival of everyday life in the midcentury Palm Beaches.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 152217
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Souvenir Photographic Folder of the South Florida Hurricane of September 16, 1928, the Okeechobee Storm
SOUTH FLORIDA HURRICANE,.
South Florida Hurricane, September 16, 1928.
West Palm Beach: 1928.
Rare contemporary souvenir folder documenting the South Florida Hurricane of September 16, 1928, one of the deadliest natural disasters in American history. Oblong duodecimo, original printed wrappers in the form of a postcard, opening to an accordion-folded strip of black-and-white photographic views, priced 25 cents on the cover. The photographs record the devastation across Palm Beach County and the Everglades: wrecked store fronts and the ruined business section of downtown West Palm Beach, a vessel blown ashore, the wrecked F.E.C. railway express depot, the new concrete bridge across Lake Worth destroyed, the Lake Court Hotel with its third-story wall and roof carried away, and scenes of desolation south of the courthouse, alongside images from Belle Glade and the Everglades where the loss of life was greatest. The text recounts the storm striking the coast around six o’clock on the evening of September 16, wrecking Pompano, Delray, Boynton, Lake Worth, the Palm Beaches, Jupiter, Riviera and Kelsey City before crossing the Everglades, where the dikes around Lake Okeechobee gave way and the floodwaters drowned the inhabitants of the farming settlements by the hundreds. In very good condition. A sobering documentary record of the 1928 hurricane.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 152238
