Sun City Development and Motion Picture Studio Plat Map Sheets, November 17, 1925
Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Brush and Bondy Development Engineers
- Extent:
- 7.00 items
- 0 Linear Feet
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
[Title of Item], [Date of Item], Sun City Development and Motion Picture Studio Plat Map Sheets , Special Collections, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida.
Background
- Scope and content:
The collection consists of seven plat map sheets of Sun City, "Florida's Moving Picture City," filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Hillsborough County on November 17, 1925. In addition to tracts of land, these sheets show all "parks, parkways, boulevards, avenues, drives, streets, alleys, and highways dedicated for public use." They also indicate the locations of the motion picture studio. They are signed by H.C. Van Sweringen, President, and J.H. Meyer, Secretary of the Sun City Holding Company. The plat sheets document how the development appeared shortly after Sun City was dedicated.
- Biographical / historical:
During the 1920s Florida Land Boom, with its burgeoning population, many investors from St. Petersburg, Tampa, and Jacksonville moved to Sun City, near present-day Ruskin, in Hillsborough County. The Florida population was growing four times faster than any other state, spurred by the abolition of income and inheritance taxes and an active road-building program. The 500-acre Sun City (FL) Motion Picture Studio was built at a cost of $300,000 through land investments near present-day Ruskin, in Hillsborough County, in late 1925. It was constructed in the Spanish-Moor style with business offices, a projection room, a carpentry room, and 20 dressing rooms. Unlike any other studio, it offered a visitors gallery where Sun City residents and tourists could watch motion picture stars work. The studio was dedicated in October 1925, and, according to the St. Petersburg Times, "1,500 speculators poured into the new silver-screen development."
- Acquisition information:
- Given by Dr. Richard Alan Nelson, Professor of Mass Communication and Public Affairs, Louisiana State University Manship School of Mass Communication in December 2007.
- Custodial history:
Dr. Nelson acquired the collection from Elizabeth Reeder, Sun City, Florida, date unknown.
- Processing information:
Processed by Burt Altman in January 2008.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
Access and use
- Restrictions:
Collection is open to all researchers.
- Terms of access:
Copyright has not been transferred to the Florida State University Libraries.
All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections and Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
- Preferred citation:
[Title of Item], [Date of Item], Sun City Development and Motion Picture Studio Plat Map Sheets , Special Collections, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida.
- Location of this collection:
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116 Honors WayTallahasseeFL32306-2047USA
