Automobile Routes / To The / Highlands Of Louisiana / Good Roads All The Way / This Map Shows The Shortest And Best Routes To The Highlands Of / Louisiana -- A New Agricultural District.

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Verlag: Long Bell Farm Land Corp; Kansas City, Mo; (2) pp.; Wraps; Good; nc/nd

Beschreibung

_____Single sheet, 23.75 x 19", printed on both sides and folded to 12ths for distribution. _____ In 1902 the Long-Bell Lumber Company acquired 52,000 acres of forest lands in western Louisiana, apparently near the town of Deridder in Beauregard Parish._____ By the early 1920s that land had been cut over to stumps and the company had to find some means _of disposing of it._____ The Long-Bell Farm Land Corporation was formed to try to market the land in 20 and 40 acre parcels as winter homes and retirement projects._____ . _____ This promotional dates from that first effort with considerable text extolling the prospects for the land . . once cleared of stumps. _____ Of the front of the sheet 1/4 is printed as one page, half is printed as a poster. _____ Designed as a self mailer, but never so used, the remaining quarter are the outermost 3 panels (mailing & 2 blanks) and are rather soiled. _____ The interior is printed as a single poster._____ With 8 black & white photos and a simple road map of routes from Wichita and Kansas City to DeRidder, Louisiana._____ There are brief pencil notes on the map. _____ There are several 1" edge splits to the folds. _____ Not in WorldCat. _____. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers P-01400

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Automobile Routes / To The / Highlands Of ...

Verlag: Long Bell Farm Land Corp; Kansas City, Mo; (2) pp.; Wraps; Good; nc/nd

Einband: No Binding

Zustand: Good

Auflage: 1st Edition