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	Record Group Number:	900000
	Series/Collection Number:	M74- 13
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	Title, Dates:	Sugar industry promotional materials, 1925-1929.
	Amount:	0.25 cubic ft.
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	Organization/Arrangement:	Unarranged.
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	Biographical/Historical:	One of Florida's top agricultural products is sugarcane, primarily grown in South Florida due to the area's tropical climate and sugarcane's high susceptibility to freezing. Florida's first major sugarcane operations arrived while the British had possession of the territory in the 1700s, but the sugar industry didn't boom until the turn of the 20th century. Florida sugarcane production boomed again in the 1960s when the United Stated embargoed Cuban sugar imports.
	Summary:	This collection contains various promotional publications and brochures dealing with the sugar cane industry in Hendry and Palm Beach Counties and real estate development in Citrus and Martin Counties. These publications date from Florida's boom period in the 1920s and serve as clever advertising to lure people and industry to "tropical, seashore Florida." Included are promotional brochures on Olympia-Picture City (Martin County) and Citrus County, a pictorial supplement to the Homosassa Herald of the Citrus County area, and newspapers that chronicle Florida's development in the 1920s. There are also several sugar industry publications that trace the development of Celotex (used in the refining process) and of the Southern Sugar Company at Clewiston (Palm Beach County), which proposed to cultivate land in the Everglades for growing sugar cane. Finally, the collection contains promotional material of the Florida Land Trust, which formed in 1926 in Chicago for the acquisition of land and the industrial and agricultural development of natural resources.
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	Subject Access Fields:	Southern Sugar Company (Clewiston, Fla.) Florida Land Trust (Chicago, Ill.) Real estate development Florida Sugar trade Florida Sugarcane industry Florida Tourist trade Florida Homosassa Springs (Fla.) Olympia-Picture City (Fla.) Clewiston (Fla.) Hendry County (Fla.) Palm Beach County (Fla.) Martin County (Fla.) Citrus County (Fla.)
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