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Fort Lauderdale Memories:
A Postcard History 1900-1960
By Todd L. Bothel
Tour historic Fort Lauderdale, Florida, through 276 color postcard images that depict the growth of the "Venice of America" and "Gateway to the Everglades." Be transported to earlier days before urban sprawl and renewal. From the 1900s through the 1960s, images of Seminoles, farming, tourism, the beach, buildings, and the New River will appeal to everyone interested in Florida history, architecture and water activities.
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Fort Lauderdale: Playground of the Stars
By Jack Drury
Few Southern cities have stronger claims to fame than Fort Lauderdale. As one of the great vacation destinations in America, over the years it attracted such celebrities as Bob Hope, Jayne Mansfield, Johnny Carson, Cary Grant and the world champion New York Yankees. This beach towns history is star-studded and rich with interesting stories and photographs from that period.
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Historic Photographs of Fort Lauderdale
By Sue Gillis
In less than one hundred years, Fort Lauderdale grew from a wilderness stagecoach stop and trading post to become one of Americas favorite tourist destinations and the seat of government for Floridas second-most-populous county.
Historic Photos of Fort Lauderdale captures the story of that remarkable growth, through striking black-and-white photographs carefully selected from the finest collections. In these pages are seldom-seen images of a dramatic past: the Seminoles, early residents of the tropical wilderness; the arrival of railroads and the growth of tourism; farmers and their crops; and the creation of canals and roads and airfields.
From the wooden stores and empty beaches to the era of high-rises and Spring Break crowds, through hurricanes, wars and times of boom and bust, Historic Photos of Fort Lauderdale tells the story of the "Venice of America," presented in a unique collection of never-to-be forgotten images.
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Fort Lauderdale: The Venice of America
By Sue Gillis
Taking its name from a fortification established more than 160 years ago during the Second Seminole War, Fort Lauderdale boasts a history stretching back 5,000 years before the first white settlers arrived in the eighteenth century. From beautiful tales of the mysterious New River that helped launch the community to more recent stories of rum running and gambling, segregation and integration, and boom and bust, the history of this Florida city is told here through the everyday lives of those who lived it.
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Images of America: Fort Lauderdale
By Susan Gillis and Daniel T. Hobby
Surveying Fort Lauderdales fascinating history chronologically, this pictorial retrospective begins with the 1890s, a time when this part of the country was still part of Americas frontier, isolated and wild. With the coming of the railroad and the twentieth century, an agricultural economy developed, and, soon, the Florida land boom would bring thousands of new settlers to the area. Fort Lauderdales glistening beaches and comfortable climate earned the city an early reputation as a tourist town and, eventually, as a Spring Break mecca.
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Fort Lauderdale in Vintage Postcards
By Susan Gillis
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is a well-known tourist destination whose very name evokes the image of a postcard. What is today one of Florida's largest cities was not always prized for its beautiful beaches and tropical climate. In the early 20th century, it was hailed as the "Gateway to the Everglades" and a "vegetable shipping capital." By the 1920s, Fort Lauderdale found itself at the very center of the phenomenal Florida land boom. Development and tourism became driving forces for the new economy-and there has been no looking back.
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Florida's Big Dig:The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway
By William G. Crawford Jr.
This book is the story of people of vision and courage. A small group of prominent Saint Augustine investors who conceived the Florida waterway and began the first dredging work to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who conducted all of the Florida waterway's early surveys and assumed the project's control in 1929 to convert what was once a private toll way into Florida's modern-day, toll-free Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.
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Images of America: Broward County
The Photography of Gene Hyde
By Susan Gillis
In 1915, the South Florida communities of Fort Lauderdale, Dania, Pompano, Hallandale, Deerfield, and Davie joined together to form a county. They named it Broward, in honor of the governor whose Everglades drainage program had brought them such prosperity. Today, Broward is Floridas second largest county, with 1.6 million people. Photographer Aaron Eugene Hyde came to Fort Lauderdale in 1933, at the age of 16, to begin a 40-year career, serving as one of the countys few professional photographers and the photographer for the Broward edition of the Miami Herald. Gene recorded fascinating people, places, and times pivotal in the countys development. His photos evoke nostalgia for the not-that-distant past, a way of life Broward County residents will never see again.
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For more information please call Linda Rosen
Linda Rosen at 954-463-4431 ext. 14
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The Fort Lauderdale Historical Society, Inc. is a non-profit charity as defined within section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service Code.
This project has been financed in part with Historic Preservation grant assistance provided by the Bureau of Historic Preservation, Division of Historical Resources, Florida Department of State, assisted by the Florida Historical Commission.
Funding for this organization is provided by our members and by the Broward County Board of Commissioners as recommended by The Broward Cultural Council. |
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