Polk County, FL (50 items)

POLK COUNTY, FLORIDA

50 items    

Established: February 8, 1861

County seat: Bartow    

1910 population: 5,577

2020 population: 725.046

Bartow   Post cards:  Davis Bros. Cafe & Motor Lodge [chrome]; Wonder House [linen]

Bradley Junction  (1910-50) 1950 LD and FD Bradley, both 4-bars, on cover

Brewster  (1913-1961) 1961 duplex on on LD cover

Cypress Gardens Sta.  1960 machine cancel on post card; 1963 4-bar on cover  

Post cards:  5 chrome views + one Continental  Souvenir booklet “Florida’s Cypress Gardens” Publ. Curt Teich & Co.

Dundee  undated 4-bar on post card

Eloise  (1894/1962) 1962 machine cancel on cover-sized card

Fedhaven RS  1965 4-bar on FD (of postal status) cover-sized card with purple round-dater on back

Florence Villa  (1904-1956) 1916? 4-bar on post card. [no stamp, hinge marks at corners]

Florida Southern College S  1938 FD (of postal status) round dater on Postal Card with Lakeland machine cancel

Frostproof  1912 4-bar on post card, also South Scituate RI Rec’d; 1970 machine cancel on cover

Haines City  1925 duplex on cover with “Postage due 2 cents” applied.  

Post card:  Haines City Motor Court, with poem

Lake Wales  1966 machine “Pray for Peace” slogan on post card; 1971 machine cancel on cover; 1979 machine slogan “Bok Singing Tower 1929-1979” on Continental-size post card 

Post cards:  “Big Oak Motel and Restaurant” [chrome]; Singing Tower (10 mostly linen views);   “Mountain Lake from the Bok Memorial Tower” [1931]; “The Great Masterpiece” [chrome].  Souvenir booklet: The Singing Tower, published by Curt Teich & Co.

Lakeland  1946 machine cancel on post card; 1957 machine slogan “Join March of Dimes” on post card “Florida Southern College” [linen].  

Post cards: “Civic Center on Mirror Lake” [linen]; Peoples Bank of Lakeland [chrome]

Mullinsville  (1941-1955) 1955 4-bar on LD postal card

Nalcrest  1966 4-bar on post card; 1970 4-bar on post card

Searstown S  (Lakeland)  1967 FD [of postal status] cds on cover-sized card, PM autograph

Wahneta B (Winterhaven)  (1964-1975) 1964 FD [of postal status] as backstamp on cover-sized card

Waverly 1970 4-bar on cover

Winterhaven  1912 date-out duplex on post card; 1947 machine cancel on post card.  

Post card: Spring Lake [chrome]