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Coconut Avenue, Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1910

Subjects
Forests & TreesStreet Scenes
Card type
Lithograph
Date
Postmarked February 1, 1908 (Golden Age)
Front of Coconut Avenue, Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1910, 1908 lithograph postcard
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Back of Coconut Avenue, Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1910, 1908 lithograph postcard
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About this postcard

A broad, pale walkway runs between rows of coconut palms whose long fronds arch overhead and meet above the path, with a white slat bench set on the grass at right and water glimpsed through the trunks at left. The card names the scene as Coconut Avenue in Palm Beach, Florida, one of the palm-lined drives and walks laid out in the resort town developed by Henry M. Flagler's hotels and the Florida East Coast Railway in the 1890s. Such avenues of transplanted coconut palms became a signature sight of the young winter resort.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Dear Charlotte, - Why don't you write? Helen Yitcomb

PublisherG. W. Morris
Coconut Ave., Palm Beach, Fla. --- Post Card For Message For Address Published in Saxony by G. W. Morris, Portland, Maine. 116283
PostmarkedSt. Petersburg, FL, February 1, 1908, 08:30
Stamp
Addressed to
Charlotte Hasset

Sparhawk Street, Amesbury, MA

Postcard record

Postmarked, St. Petersburg, FL
PublisherG. W. Morris
ConditionGood
Place addressedCharlotte Hasset, Sparhawk Street, Amesbury, MA
Place depictedCoconut Avenue, Palm Beach, FL
Place mentionedSaxony, Germany
PublisherG. W. Morris, Portland, ME
Stamp1c Benjamin Franklin, green, perforated on all sides
NotesThin white border; small tear at upper left corner; grainy halftone/litho color printing. Postmark: SAINT PETERSBURG FLA JAN 20 8:30 PM (second, receiving-style mark: FEB 1 8-30 AM 1908 MASS.). Divided back with green "Post Card" heading; imprint "Published in Saxony by G. W. Morris, Portland, Maine."; light toning and minor corner wear.

Cite this card

Coconut Avenue, Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1910, postcard, n.d.. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/coconut-avenue-palm-beach-florida-circa-1910. Accessed October 24, 2026.