Winter journeys in the South; pen and camera impressions of men, manners, women, and things all the way from the blue Gulf and New Orleans through fashionable Florida palms to the pines of Virginia, by John Martin Hammond...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hammond, John Martin.

Contributor:

Holloway, Edward Stratton, 1859-1939,., Binding designer.

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southern States--Description and travel.

Southern States.

Southern States--Social life and customs.

Genre:

Signed bindings (Binding) -- 1916.

Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1916.

Travel literature.

Physical Description:

261, [1] p. front., plates. 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia & London, J. B. Lippincott company, 1916.

Contents:

Palmy palm beach

O mi am I

St. Augustine, the fountain of youth

Ormond and round about and the beach

Getting into Florida

Seeing Florida from a time-table in Jax

Swinging the circle of the gulf

A bit of the old in New Orleans

Where is what in Savannah

August Augusta

That well-known Aiken

Long squares and long years in Camden

Charleston, a quiet present in a noisy past

Finding one's way in Summerville

Pinehurst, where good golfers go

Down the Lumbee in a canoe

Asheville in a sapphire sky

The new life of the old white

Hot springs, the rich maiden lady

The comfort of Old Point.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Bound in tan cloth with text in red and tropical design in green, red, and blue, signed "H" for E. S. Holloway.

Athenaeum copy: Stamped on t.p.: "Received Jan 11 1917, The Athenaeum."

Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.

OCLC:

1601669