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  • Advertising trade card for the Three Ball Brand Household Sundries company. Image on front consists of several alligators dressed in clothing and seated around a dining table with an Egyptian obelisk and pyramids in the background.

    The back of the card describes several cleaning products offered by the Ball Brand Co.
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  • Advertising trade card for the Arbuckle Bros. Coffee Co, card No. 59. On the front is a Map of Florida and the adjoining states of Alabama and Georgia. The images around the map includes a bunch of oranges and a Florida resort. The front also gives the sq. miles of Florida as 58,680 and the population as 269,493.

    On the back is an advertisement for Arbuckles' Ariosa Coffee and a description of the trading card series.
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  • Advertising trade card for the Arbuckle Bros. Coffee Co, card No. 12. According to statement on the card "This is one of a series of fifty (50) cards giving a pictorial history of the United States and Territories." A few tidbits of Florida history on the right side of the card include the mythic tale of Ponce de Leon's search for the Fountain of Youth and a brief mention of the Seminole and Civil Wars. The left half of the card is an advertisement for Arbuckles' Ariosa Coffee.

    Illustrations on the front of card titled "Fighting the Seminoles in the Swamps (1835-42)," "Spaniards in Florida" and the "Old Gate at St. Augustine."
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  • Card printed (on back) with information about Ayer's Ague Cure, a patent medicine to treat Malaria, fevers and "liver complaints." Main scene on card shows a log cabin with two figures next to it and a man in a rowboat nearby. Bottom right corner shows two frogs offering the Ayer's Ague Cure tonic to an alligator.
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  • Four men, William H. Leopard, Frank Sheeran, Stuart mayor John E. Taylor and an unidentified man, hold large boards with titles affixed: "At Your Service" Leopard & Sheeran, real estate, insurance, investments. Stuart Florida. Exhibited through the courtesy of A.W. France."

    Boards are pasted with photographs and newspaper articles from 1926. The display was created to be shown at Young's Million Dollar Steel Pier in Atlantic City. A.W. France, owner of the France Apartments, would display them while attending a convention of engineers there.

    William H. Leopard & Frank Sheeran formed Leopard & Sheeran in August 1926, with offices in the Peacock Arcade and on Dixie Highway in Rio.
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  • The Sunshine Special, South Florida Wildlife Council Edition, 23 June 1939, Vol. XII, No. 13.

    The Sunshine Special was published weekly in West Palm Beach.

    Table of Contents:
    Goin' fishin' by Donald Hough
    Salt water big mouthed bass by C.R. Crandall
    No fanfare nor feathers by Donald McCarthy
    Lake Okeechobee partly fresh water
    What the pilgrim didn't see and why by A.C. Fordham
    Over the top
    Indian River County and gun club by J.B. Tippin
    Adding another page to Florida's black book by Ernest Lyons
    U.S. opens drive on duck bootleggers and buyers
    Half minute interviews (includes Earl Ricou, Theodore Dehon, John DuBois)
    Letters to the editor
    Ramblings
    Dogs
    Martin County (report on the backlash to the seine net law)
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  • Booklet advertising West Palm Beach, featuring photos of buildings and landscapes in West Palm, and descriptions of climate, activities, agriculture, roads, educational facilities, local organizations, churches, and hotels.
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  • Program of the twenty-eighth annual convention of the Florida State Federation of Labor (former name of the Florida AFL-CIO) and Allied Bodies at Stuart, Martin County, Florida, Feb. 28-Mar. 7, 1928. Advertisements of local businesses, program of speakers and activities.
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