- Collection:
- Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Postcard Collection
- Title:
- A Florida Memory
- Creator:
- Curteich (Chicago, Ill.)
- Publisher:
- Jacksonville, Fla.: Florida Postcard Co.
- Date of Original:
- 1912/1925
- Subject:
- Bok Tower (Lake Wales, Fla.)
Towers--Florida
Postcards--Florida - Location:
- United States, Florida, Polk County, 27.94888, -81.69767
- Medium:
- postcards
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Postcard (color, linen texture, white border, divided back, 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches) titled A Florida Memory featuring the Bok Bell Tower located in Lake Wales Florida. A copyrighted poem “Florida Memory, A Tribute to the Singing Tower” is featured on the front of the card. - The Singing Tower is a part of the Bok Tower Gardens, a National Historic Landmark that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, nationally significant for its association with Edward W. Bok and its designers. The carillon in the Tower has 60 bells ranging in weight from 16 pounds to nearly 12 tons. A carillon is a musical instrument consisting of at least 23 cast bronze bells that are precisely tuned and arranged in chromatic progression so that music in any key can be played. Unlike other types of bells, carillon bells are fixed in a frame. It is the largest musical instrument in the world. The instrument in Bok Tower was designed and built in 1928 by John Taylor Bellfoundry, Ltd. of Loughborough, England. No descriptive text on reverse. Postage required 1 cent stamp. Card number 3AQ- H868.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz-odom_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-280
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz-odom_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-280#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz-odom_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-280/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 postcard : col. ill.
- Original Collection:
- Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Postcard Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Moultrie-Colquitt County Library System
- Rights:
-
