Miscellaneous correspondence
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- Created Date
- 1916
- Description
(Funding) Electronic format produced as part of Reclaiming the Everglades, a collaborative project of the University of Miami, Florida International University, and the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, funded by the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Program.
(Biographical) South Florida attorney James Milton Carson actively promoted drainage and reclamation of the Florida Everglades during the first quarter of the 20th century. In 1915, Carson convinced Judge Ion Farris to make drainage the central issue in his gubernatorial campaign platform. Although Farris lost the election, the drainage issue returned to the forefront of state politics.
- Creator
Carson, James Milton
Farris, Ion L
Reclaiming the Everglades
- Contributing Institution
- Florida International University Libraries
- Type
- text
- Format
- 25 items (69 l.)
- Language
- English
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- Please contact the owning institution for licensing and permissions. It is the users responsibility to ensure use does not violate any third party rights.
- Chicago citation style
- Carson, James Milton, Farris, Ion L, Reclaiming the Everglades. Miscellaneous correspondence. 1916. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/JC00010003/00001. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Carson, James Milton, Farris, Ion L, Reclaiming the Everglades, (1916) Miscellaneous correspondence. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/JC00010003/00001
- MLA citation style
- Carson, James Milton, Farris, Ion L, Reclaiming the Everglades. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/JC00010003/00001>.