Source

State Library of Florida, Federal Documents Collection

Description

A photographic travel book illustrating the trip taken by members of the General Passenger Agents Association and their wives from March 17-19, 1888, on a "Special Train to Florida." The photographs are accompanied by quotations from "Paradise Lost" by John Milton; "Evangeline" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; poet Stanley H. Ray; poet Lord Byron; a conversation between Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth I; "Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare; "Castle of Indolence" by James Thomson; and the second canto of "The Pelican Island" by James Montgomery. Based on the photographs and captions, the passengers went to Hagerstown, Maryland; Burnside Bridge in Antietam, Maryland; Natural Bridge and Chattanooga in Tennessee; Luray Caverns in Virginia; and the Ponce de Leon Hotel in St. Augustine, Florida.

Date

1888-03

Publisher

Giles Lithographic and Liberty Printing Company (New York, N.Y.)

Format

Books

Coverage

Late 19th-Century Florida (1877-1900)

Topic

Tourism And Attractions

Subjects

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603
Florida -- Description and travel
Florida -- Pictorial works
General Passenger Agents Association
Hotel Ponce de Leon (Saint Augustine, Fla.)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
Milton, John, 1608-1674
Montgomery, James, 1771-1854
Railroad trains
Railroad travel
Raleigh, Walter, Sir, approximately 1552-1618
Ray, Stanley H.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Thomson, James, 1700-1748
Virginia, Tennessee & Georgia Air Line Railroad

Geographic Term

Chattanooga (Tenn.)
Luray (Va.)
Hagerstown (Md.)
Antietam (Md.)
Saint Augustine
Saint Johns County