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< p> A dock with stacks of crates overfilled with coconuts, water in the foreground. Handwritten on front: Mrs. L.C. Moffett.
Printed on the back. Jacksonville, Florida.The Cocoanut Dock. Many years ago the Spanish brig "Providencia" cocoanut-laden was cast away off the Florida coast and the cocoanuts were washed ashore to find congenial climate and soil for reproductive growth. Today the nuts form a considerable item of export through the port of Jacksonville. The cocoanut wharf is one of the sights of the city.
In addition, there is a short note written on the back that reads:
Florida wouldn’t be big enough to hold these “crackers” if they had anything here like that falls. How is this for cocoanuts? I think I would like very much to see your western country. I have a cousin in Seattle, Wash.
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Jacksonville, Florida. The Coconut Dock. Undated. Northeast Florida Regional Postcards. Thomas G. Carpenter Library Special Collections and Archives. UNF Digital Commons, https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/flapostcards/182/
Archival file-front and back
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