Fort Lauderdale, Florida: “Gateway to the Everglades”.

$750.00

Item Number: 103801

Fort Lauderdale: Snyder & Hortt, Real Estate and Investments, c. 1915.

Rare first edition promotional brochure for the city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Octavo, profusely illustrated with photographs taken c. 1914-1915 of the business district, boulevards, markets, railways, farms, orange groves, beaches, marinas, streams, and homes of Fort Lauderale. Map of Florida on the final page. In near fine condition. Scarce, OCLC/WorldCat locates only one other example housed in the Alachua County Library which lists the publication date as 1915, the year Fort Lauderdale was designated the county seat of the newly formed Broward County.

Fort Lauderdale, from a village of 200 in 1911, swiftly developed into one of the largest business centers in South Florida with over 5,000 inhabitants by 1920. Published to lure the homebuyer and tourist alike, the present pamphlet features an impressive assortment of rare photographs of the earliest phases of the city's establishment.