Formally entitled “Florida, A Guide to the Southernmost State”, the book we’ll examine here is just one of the American Guide Book series. This series is a group of books and pamphlets published from 1937 to 1941 under the auspices of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), a Depression-era works program in the United States. The American Guide Series books were compiled by the FWP, but printed by individual states, and contained detailed histories of each of the then 48 states of the Union with descriptions of every major city and town. In total, the project employed over 6,000 writers. The format was uniform, comprising essays on the state's history and culture, descriptions of its major cities, automobile tours of important attractions, and a portfolio of photographs.
The Florida guidebook in this series offers a broad range of interesting insights and perspectives of life, wildlife culture, events, transportation and more in the late 1920 and early thirties, included are descriptives of a number of fascinating roadtrips.
Florida, A Guide to the Southernmost State