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Photo, Print, Drawing Thousands of Live Alligators on Free Exhibition.

About this Item

Title

  • Thousands of Live Alligators on Free Exhibition.

Summary

  • This broadside, dating from about 1950, is an advertisement for Osky's, also known as Osky's Curio Shop or Osky's Alligator Store, a Jacksonville mercantile store that sold gift items, rare or bizarre decorative items, and goods made out of alligator skin, including lamps, purses, and wallets. The shop also exhibited live alligators and other reptiles. Jacksonville was home to many of Florida's earliest tourist attractions, including the Florida Alligator Farm. Operating for several decades on Jacksonville's historic Bay Street, Osky's promoted itself through postcards featuring images of its alligators and alligator goods and advertisements such as this one.

Names

  • Osky's Creator.

Created / Published

  • Jacksonville, Florida : Osky's Curio Shop, 1950.

Headings

  • -  United States of America--Florida--Jacksonville
  • -  1945 to 1955
  • -  Alligators
  • -  Broadsides
  • -  Commerce
  • -  Promotion
  • -  Tourism

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "Red printing on buff stock paper. Small red border. "See our live monster alligator. Weighing 900 lbs. Length, 14 feet 3 inches. Pay us a visit. Osky's, 121 West Bay Street.""--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 sheet ; 8.5 x 14 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: State Library and Archives of Florida.
  • -  Content in English.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Florida Broadsides and Other Ephemera, 1800-2000

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021669918

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Osky'S Creator. Thousands of Live Alligators on Free Exhibition. United States of America Florida Jacksonville, 1950. Jacksonville, Florida: Osky's Curio Shop. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669918/.

APA citation style:

Osky'S Creator. (1950) Thousands of Live Alligators on Free Exhibition. United States of America Florida Jacksonville, 1950. Jacksonville, Florida: Osky's Curio Shop. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669918/.

MLA citation style:

Osky'S Creator. Thousands of Live Alligators on Free Exhibition. Jacksonville, Florida: Osky's Curio Shop. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021669918/>.