| BOK TOWER GARDENS (RG900) 1929-2001 |
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SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE |
Edward W. Bok, publisher and author, created the gardens and tower in Lake Wales, Polk County, Florida, "to make America more beautiful because he had lived in it." The singing tower with its adjacent sanctuary was dedicated by Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States, on February 1, 1929.
The collection consists of ephemera in Box 1: brochures, fact sheets, schedules and notices of events, photographs and postcards from Bok Tower Gardens. Box 2 contains newsletters from 1990-95 and news releases from 1992-Feb. 2000. The collection also includes 2 phonograph records of Carillon music and 3 catalogued books: The Americanization of Edward Bok (SC, B, B686b), The Development of the Art of the Carillon in North America, by Milford Myhre (SC, 789.5, M977m), and America's Taj Mahal, by Edward W. Bok (789.5)
| BOX | FOLDER | FOLDER TITLE | DATES | | 1 | 1 | Annual Report | 1991 | | | 2 | Biographic Data and Fact Sheets | | | | 3 | Brochures | 1930-92 | | | 4 | Brochures: Pinewood Gardens | 1990 | | | 5 | Newspaper and Magazine Articles | 1929-98 | | | 6 | Photographs and Postcards | n.d. | | | 7 | Program Schedules | 1986-2001 | | | 8 | Miscellaneous (Dedications) | 1929-94 | | 2 | | Newsletters and News Releases | 1990-2000 |
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