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1969 Dolph Map Company City Plan or Map of Lakeland, Florida
LakelandFlorida-dolph-1969$100.00
Title
Lakeland and Polk County Florida Indexed Street Map and Information Guide.
1969 (undated) 30.5 x 22.75 in (77.47 x 57.785 cm) 1 : 31680
1969 (undated) 30.5 x 22.75 in (77.47 x 57.785 cm) 1 : 31680
Description
This is a c. 1969 Dolph Map Company city plan or map of Lakeland, Florida.
A Closer Look
Depicting from Providence Road south to Scott Lake, streets throughout Lakeland and the surrounding communities are labeled. Numerous lakes are identified as well, and their elevations provided. Lakeland is shaded a light yellow, with darker yellow highlighting clinics, hospitals, the railroad station, shopping centers, the drive-in theater, the landfill, and the sewage treatment plant. Seaboard Coast Line and Atlantic Coast Line Railroad trackage is illustrated. An alphabetic street index begins along the right border and continues on the verso. A road map of Polk County occupies a quarter of the verso, with the rest of the space taken up by the street index and printed photographs meant to encourage tourism.Publication History and Census
This map was created and published by the Dolph Map Company c. 1969. This is the only known cataloged example of the present edition. We have located other editions of Dolph's Map of Lakeland Polk County Florida, with different art on the front of the brochure and different verso content. We dated the present edition based on the verso text, which states that the Detroit Tigers (Lakeland is their spring training home) won the 1968 World Series.Cartographer
Frank B. Dolph (October 3, 1897 - November 26, 1975) was an American businessman and map publisher. Born in Great Neck, Long Island, New York, Dolph served as a Navy storekeeper during World War I. He began selling maps in 1919 after returning from England, likely for the George F. Cram Company, where he ultimately became an administrative aide. He also worked for the Rand McNally Company for some time before he founded his own map publishing firm, Dolph and Stewart, with his friend, sometime in the 1920s. Dolph and Stewart made maps throughout the 1920s and 1930s until they sold the firm in 1945 when Dolph decided to return to Florida. Dolph opened a new map publishing business, the Frank B. Dolph Map Co. in Ft. Lauderdale and published city plans of cities throughout the United States. Many of his maps were distributed by Chambers of Commerce or sold at newsstands. Real estate developers greatly appreciated his maps, those published by both the Dolph and Stewart Company and the Frank B. Dolph Company. Dolph retired as president of his firm around 1965, when he handed the business off to his son, Frank B. Dolph, Jr. Dolph worked with cartographer Theodore M. Politano for decades while operating the Frank B. Dolph Map Company. More by this mapmaker...
Condition
Good. Wear along original fold lines. Verso repairs to fold separations and at fold intersections. Closed tear extending .5 inch into printed area professionally repaired on verso. Slight loss at a few fold intersections. Light soiling.