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Henry Flagler

Akin, Edward N. Flagler: Rockefeller Partner & Florida Baron, Florida: University Press of Florida, 1988.

*Chandler, David Leon. Henry Flagler, New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1986.

Flagler Museum: An Illustrated Guide, Henry Morrision Flagler Museum, 2010

Gordon, John Steel. The Master Builder, Audacity Magazine (Winter 1996): 40-53.

Lefevre, Edwin. Flagler and Florida, Everybody's Magazine 22 (1910): 168-186.

Martin, Sidney Walter. Florida's Flagler, University of Georgia Press, 1977.

Martin, Sidney Walter. Henry Flagler: Visionary of the Gilded Age, Tailored Tours Publications, 1999.

Sammons, Sandra Wallus. Henry Flagler Builder of Florida, Florida: Tailored Tours Publications, Inc., 1993.

Wiggins, Larry. The Birth of the City of Miami, Tequesta: Journal of the Historical Association of Southern Florida (1995): 5-38.

America's Gilded Age

Aslet, Clive. The American Country House, New Haven and London: Yale University Press,1990.

Blades, John M. and Loring, John. Tiffany at the World’s Columbian Exposition, Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, 2006.

Braden, Susan R. The Architecture of Leisure: The Florida Resort Hotels of Henry Flagler and Henry Plant, University Press of Florida, 2002.

Cashman, Sean Dennis. America in the Gilded Age, New York: New York University Press,1993.

Dorsey, Hebe. The Age of Opulence, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986.

Dwight, Eleanor. The Gilded Age: Edith Warton and Her Contemporaries, New York: Universe Publishing, 1995.

Folsom, Merrill. Great American Mansions and Their Stories, Mamaroneck, New York: Hastings House, 1963.

*Gregory, Alexis. Families of Fortune: Life in the Gilded Age, New York: Rizzoli,1993.

Barghini, Sandra. Henry M. Flagler’s Paintings Collection: The Taste of a Gilded Age Collector, Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, 2002.

Hofer, Margaret K. The Games We Played: The Golden Age of Board & Table Games, Princeton Architectural Press, 2003.

Howsbawm, Eric. The Age of Capital 1848-1875, New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1995.

Larson, Erik. The Devil in the White City, Crown Publishers, 2003.

McAlester, Virginia & Lee. Great American Houses, New York: Abbeville Press, 1994.

Rydell, Robert and Carol Kinder Carr. Revisiting the White City: American Art and the 1893 World's Fair, Hanover: University Press, 1993.

Sandler, Martin. Inventors, New York: Harper Collins, 1996.

FEC Railroad

Bramson, Seth. Speedway to Sunshine: The Story of the Florida East Coast Railway, Boston Mills Press, 2003.

Florida East Coast Railway. Announcement: Key West Extension of the Florida East Coast Railway, 1912, reprinted, Key West, Florida: The Conch Tour Train, 1985.

*Gallagher, Dan. Pigeon Key and the Seven-Mile Bridge 1908-1912, Marathon, Florida: Pigeon Key Foundation, 1995.

Meltzer, Milton. Hear that Train Whistle Blow: How the Railroad Changed the World, Random House, 2004.

Parks, Pat. The Railroad that Died at Sea, Florida: Langley Press, Inc., 1968.

Standiford, Les. Last Train to Paradise, Crown Publishers, 2002.

Florida and Palm Beach

Ayers, R. Wayne. Florida’s Grand Hotels from the Gilded Age, Arcadia Publishing, 2005.

Barghini, Sandra. Palm Beach Panorama: Turn-of-the-Century Photography by W.E. Hazard, Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, 1996.

Barghini, Sandra. A Society of Painters: Flagler's St. Augustine Art Colony, Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, 1998

Earl, Polly Anne. Palm Beach an Architectural Legacy, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. 2002.

Earl, Polly Anne. Palm Beach: The Way We Were, Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach, 2003.

Gannon, Michael. Florida: A Short History, Florida: University Press of Florida, 1993.

O’Sullivan, Maureen and Sphritz, Dianna. Palm Beach: Then and Now, Lickle Publishing, 2003.

Pierce, Charles W. Pioneer Life in Southeast Florida, Coral Gables: University of Miami Press,1970.

Tuckwood, Jan and Eliot Kleinberg. Pioneers in Paradise: West Palm Beach The First 100Years, Palm Beach Post, 1994.

Wilson, Joyce C. Palm Beach Splendor: The Architecture of Jeffery W. Smith, International Publications, Inc. 2005.


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