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N. L. HAMPTON MIAMI. 1916. 35x47 inches. Woodward & Tiernan, St. Louis. Condition B+: minor staining and smudges in image; chipping and paper loss at edges. Mounted on card. The history of Miami Beach can be traced back to a single man, Carl Fisher, whose vision of turning a marshy, mangrove swamp into America's Riviera began to take shape around 1913. The City of Miami itself began to grow in 1896 when the Florida East Coast Railroad made the city accessible to the rest of the country. The man responsible for that railroad, Henry Flagler, also opened up the city's first luxury hotel, The Royal Palm, in 1897. In 1913 a two-mile long wooden bridge was built connecting Miami to an inhospitable strip of land that came to be known as the "Billion Dollar Sandbar" and also as Miami Beach. Thanks to the dredging, draining, landscaping and tireless promoting of Carl Fisher, Miami Beach became one of the premier destination resorts in America. This early poster map shows the city of Miami's incredible architecture, opulence and development, with important buildings and public spaces all named at the bottom. Miami Beach, while pictured (and not all that realistically, it would seem) is still relatively undeveloped, something that would change very soon after this promotional poster appeared. The two airplanes in the sky are a tribute to the 15th anniversary of the incorporation of the City of Miami (which took place in 1911) when the population was treated to the thrill of a flight in a Wright Brothers' constructed plane. The excitement of that early flying exhibition enthralled the citizenry and airplanes figured prominently in subsequent Miami promotional images.
