1947 Cobb City Plan or Map or Orlando and Winter Park, Florida

This is a 1947 Tyn Cobb city plan or map of Orlando and Winter Park, Florida. Streets throughout the cities are illustrated and labeled, along with numerous lakes, the botanical gardens, and the Rollins College campus. Both the Orlando Commercial Airport and 'Orlando's New Airport', today's Orlando International Airport, appear in the lower right. Detailed street indexes for Winter Park, Orlando, and the surrounding county are situated along the left border and dominate the lower left. Blue overprinting highlights the location of Harlow G. Fredrick's real estate business. A smaller map of Orange County occupies the lower third of the sheet on the verso.

Publication History and Census

This map was created and published by Tyn Cobb's Florida Press in 1947. Allen Clague drafted the map of Orange County printed on the verso. The whole was published as an advertisement for Harlow G. Fredrick's real estate business. At least two editions of this map were published as advertisements for real estate companies. The present edition and another published for Brass and Haynie Realtors, an example of which is part of the collection at the Touchton Map Library at the Tampa Bay History Center. We have been unable to locate any other surviving examples of the present edition.