Leve, Gustave (sold)
Gustave Leve (1847 - February 1, 1919), also known as Gaetan Leve, was a German American inventor, travel agent, investor, and printer based in New York. Leve was born in Breslau, Germany and emigrated to New York in 1863. In the 1870s he ran the Grand American Excursion Company, which organized luxury tours throughout New England. Later, with Henry Philip Alden (February 12, 1826 - December 31, 1897), he founded the Leve and Allen Printing Company. The firm printed mostly travel and real-estate promotional materials. In 1885, the firm went insolvent after Leve became involved in a fraud dispute with ink manufacturer William D. Wilson. Leve went back to tourism, capitalizing on rail travel to the south. He also patented multiple useful inventions, including a new kind of bed and a railroad car. Leve died in New York in 1919.
Mapping Florida's first land boom!
The Florida Land and Mortgage Company, Limited owns 2,300,000 Acres of Land...
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The map that launched the first Florida land boom. This important 1884 map of Florida was issued by the Colton firm for the Florida Land and Mortgage Company. The map captures the beginnings of the first Florida Land Boom (1881 - 1894), illustrating the vast Hamilton Disston (1844 - 1896) and Edward James Reed (1830 - 1906) real-estate empire. Operating as the Florida Land and Mortgage Company, Disston and Reed redefined central and western Florida. (more details)