Map of Florida Showing the Distribution of the Pine Forests

Caption

Charles Sprague Sargent; R. H. Scott; publisher U.S. Department of the Interior. Tampa Bay History Center, Touchton Map Collection, U15-9061. Digital image: University of South Florida Digital Commons.

Catalog notes

Florida is divided here by pine-forest information rather than county colors alone. The legend distinguishes pine types and areas where merchantable pine had already been cut. That makes the map a record of resource use as well as vegetation. Its value in the repository is the way it encourages readers to recognize a working landscape behind the familiar state outline and to ask what the categories were intended to measure.

Original catalog record, source and attribution