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1947 Tyn Cobb Map of Orlando and Winter Park, Florida
$300.00
1947 Cobb City Plan or Map or Orlando and Winter Park, Florida
Orlando-cobb-1947$100.00
Title
Orlando and Winter Park with Adjoining Territory Outside of City Limits.
1947 (dated) 33.75 x 19.25 in (85.725 x 48.895 cm)
1947 (dated) 33.75 x 19.25 in (85.725 x 48.895 cm)
Description
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.CartographerS
Needham Tyndale 'Tyn' Cobb Jr. (December 16, 1898 - August 7, 1984) was and American businessman, printer, and politician. Born in Sanford, North Carolina, Cobb moved from Atlanta to Central Florida in 1922, where he spent the rest of his life. He worked as the assistant manager of the Angebilt Hotel when it opened in 1923. He founded Ten Cobb's Florida Press, which he operated for the next thirty-three years. Cobb was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 1943, 1945, 1947, but lost a bid for the Florida State Senate in 1948. He sold Ten Cobb's Florida Press in 1958. His first wife, Evelyn Pattie Cobb, died on January 24, 1970. He remarried to Vivian Adele Talbot on December 1, 1978. More by this mapmaker...
Allen Ashel Clague (September 12, 1884 - 1962) was an British-American civil engineer. Born on the Isle of Man, Clague registered for the Selective Service in 1918 while living in a hotel in Indianapolis, Indiana. He registered as a British citizen. Clague lived in Florida for most of his working life and died in Orlando. Very little else is known about his life and work. Learn More...
Condition
Very good. Exhibits light wear along original fold lines. Closed margin tear professionally repaired on verso. Map of Orange County and printed images printed on verso.