Going through Another Florida Orange Grove

If you have been following this blog for a several years, you have seen the picture on the front of this post card before. This is one of at least six post cards in my collection that have this picture,

or some variation of it, on the front. Four of the post cards tell us that the picture was taken in Florida; two say that it happened in California. This post card is part of the Florida camp. The way in which I chose to blog about this post card was as follows: Me – “Honey, choose a number between 1 and 10.” My wife – “Four.” Me – “Now choose a number between 1 and 345.” Her – “two hundred and twelve.” The first number was to choose the album of post cards; the second number was the post card within that album. Thus, we get this post card! The post card right below this one in the album (number 213) tells us that this picture is from near St. Petersburg, Florida. You can type “Florida” in the upper left-hand corner of the blog post and it will find all the posts that include this word in them. You can scroll down through the blog posts and see the other four post cards about which I have already written. They are from January 15, 2015 and February 2, 2018. I really know nothing about the picture on the front of this post card, except that is was very popular. The back of the post card does tell me many things.

The first thing that I see is that it was published by the H. & W.B. Drew Company out of Jacksonville, Florida. This is the only post card in my collection from this publisher. That is the symbol in the upper left-hand of the post card. It also seems to be post card number 1019, but I don’t see if it is part of a series of if this set of post cards was their 1,019th run of post cards. It could be number 1019 of their Florida Artistic Series of post cards. In the bottom left-hand of the post card there is another symbol. This is the state seal of Florida. Or at least it was when the post card was printed. The last thing that I found on the back of the post card was that it was published after 1930 by the Curt Otto Teich company. One series of their card numbers began with a number corresponding to the last digit of the year it was published in followed by a letter series denoting the decade: 1930’s A and AH prefix All cards with an H onwards designate Art Colortone. This post card is numbered A-19515; that means that it was published in the 1930s. This is sort of confirmed by the fact that between June 30, 1928 and January 1, 1952 the rate to mail a post card domestically was one cent. The last thing that I would like to point out is that the message on the back of the post card matches the picture on the front. The writer, Andy, is telling Terra that the oranges on the front look delicious.