1947 Tyn Cobb Map of Orlando and Winter Park, Florida

Orlando-cobb-1947-2
$300.00
Street and Index Map of Orlando and Winter Park and adjacent territory outside of these city limits. / Large Aerial view of the Orlando Business District. / County Map Showing All oft Paved Roads. - Main View
Street and Index Map of Orlando and Winter Park and adjacent territory outside of these city limits. / Large Aerial view of the Orlando Business District. / County Map Showing All oft Paved Roads. - Main View
Street and Index Map of Orlando and Winter Park and adjacent territory outside of these city limits. / Large Aerial view of the Orlando Business District. / County Map Showing All oft Paved Roads. - Alternate View 1
Street and Index Map of Orlando and Winter Park and adjacent territory outside of these city limits. / Large Aerial view of the Orlando Business District. / County Map Showing All oft Paved Roads. - Alternate View 2
Street and Index Map of Orlando and Winter Park and adjacent territory outside of these city limits. / Large Aerial view of the Orlando Business District. / County Map Showing All oft Paved Roads. - Main View Thumbnail
Street and Index Map of Orlando and Winter Park and adjacent territory outside of these city limits. / Large Aerial view of the Orlando Business District. / County Map Showing All oft Paved Roads. - Alternate View 1 Thumbnail
Street and Index Map of Orlando and Winter Park and adjacent territory outside of these city limits. / Large Aerial view of the Orlando Business District. / County Map Showing All oft Paved Roads. - Alternate View 2 Thumbnail
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1947 Tyn Cobb Map of Orlando and Winter Park, Florida

Orlando-cobb-1947-2

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$300.00

Title

Street and Index Map of Orlando and Winter Park and adjacent territory outside of these city limits. / Large Aerial view of the Orlando Business District. / County Map Showing All oft Paved Roads.
  1947 (undated)     34 x 19.75 in (86.36 x 50.165 cm)     1 : 22600

Description

An impressive 1947 Tyn Cobb folding city plan or map of Orlando and Winter Park, Florida. It presents the area early in its post-World War II (1939 - 1945) population boom.
A Closer Look
Streets throughout the cities are illustrated and labeled, along with numerous lakes, the botanical gardens, Rollins College, Tinker Field, the Exposition Grounds, golf courses, hospitals, schools, and rail lines. Both the Orlando Commercial Airport (now Orlando Executive Airport) and 'Orlando's New Airport', today's Orlando International Airport, appear at 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 the Central Title and Trust Co. A small legend appears at center towards bottom-right near Lake Underhill.

A smaller map of Orange County occupies the lower third of the sheet on the verso. The verso also includes an aerial photograph of downtown Orlando to the west of Lake Eola, including, it would seem, the office of the Central Title and Trust Co.
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, which is dated. The whole was published as an advertisement for the Central Title and Trust Co. At least three variants of this map were published by Tyn Cobb as advertisements for real estate companies, the present one, and others 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, and the realtor Harlow G. Fredrick, previously sold by us (all three companies had offices near each other in Downtown Orlando). The map was also printed for the Orlando Chamber of Commerce and is noted among the holdings of the Library of Congress, State Library of Florida, Stanford University, the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, and the Jacksonville Public Library. We have been unable to locate any other surviving examples of the present variant.

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. Some wear on old fold lines and scuffing on verso.

References

Tampa Bay History Center, Touchton Map Library, L2018.097.025 (another state). OCLC 5481348 (another state).