April 12, 2024
Original 1896 FITZGERALD GA Georgia EARLY VIEW!!
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FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER (ex-lib), New York, dated March 19, 1896. COMPLETE in 16 pages, Folio (16" x 11 1/2"). Featured in this issue is an original 3" x 5" photo image of "THE TOWN OF FITZGERALD" accompanied by the 1 1/2 column-long article "A COLONY OF ARMY VETERANS" which reads, "The phenomenon of sudden city growth has been so frequent in the mining regions of the West that it has ceased to provoke special comment. But the spectacle of a city of over six thousand people amid the pine forests of southern Georgia, w six months ago t were only a score or so of people, may be classed as an event of unusual interest...On the fourth of last October the first human habitation was begun in Fitzgerald, as the new town is called. It was completed the same day, and its character may be imagined. It was a shanty or 'shack'...But Fitzgerald presents a very different appearance now. The colony has grown wonderfully. T are nearly seven thousand people now on the area which six months ago contained only half a dozen scattered farm-homes...".Other illustrated articles include: "AN EVENING AT BILLIARDS", "ITALY IN ABYSSINIA", and MORE!! IN VERY GOOD CONDITION!! The Fitzgerald page has a VERY small lower edge tear, affecting blank border only. The front page of the issue has a VERY light library stamp near the title plate. A few other
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