This is a promotional booklet for The (first) Seminole hotel. Not only does it describe the hotel in great detail, including a diagram and layout of each of the hotel's floors, but it also gives an early history of Winter Park with vintage photographs of the town.
A detailed account of the view from the top of The Seminole (page 25) is fascinating to read. The text decribes a birds-eye view of the town of Winter Park, its lakes and its buildings before the turn of the century.
This booklet can be accurately dated by referencing the 1888-9 calendar for Rollins College on page 19.
The booklet's pages are in .pdf format and you will have to use Adobe® Reader® to view them. If you do not have Adobe® Reader®, click HERE to download a copy.
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Special thanks to DeHaven Batchelor, DVM of Sanford, Florida and fifth generation of the Batchelor family, for providing this booklet to The Library's Winter Park History and Archives Collection.
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