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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Additional cover title: Historical, Pictorial, Legends, Anecdotes. Copyright 1959. Seventh Printing, 1964. Oblong 4to. (23 cm.) 20p. Illustrated with 42 black and white captioned photos One black and white map, and a black and white map inside the rear cover. stapled booklet in green pictorial wrappers with an aerial photo of Jekyll Island on the rear wrapper. Just touches of wear to the extremities, wrappers slightly faded, spine slightly rubbed, faint musty odor, a bit of rust on the staples, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. "As a child growing up in Waycross, Georgia, Tallulah 'Tallu' Fish was captivated by Jekyll Island. 'Her mother would bring her to Brunswick and they would look across the river to where the millionaires were,' says Sarah Tallu Schuyler, Fish's granddaughter. 'She thought it was a magical place.' Years later, after a career in journalism (she was editor of the Democratic Women's Club Journal of Kentucky and a columnist for The Courier-Journal in Louisville) and after the death of her husband, Fish found her way to Jekyll at last, hired by the state to establish the Jekyll Island Museum in Indian Mound Cottage, the former home of William Rockefeller. Fish moved into the cottage's servants quarters and got to work. She salvaged furniture, decorations, porcelain, and taxidermy from surrounding buildings and cottages to recreate the splendor of Club Era island life. The museum opened its doors on December 11, 1954, the same day the causeway to Jekyll Island opened to the public." [from an article on Jekyll Island by Jennifer Senator] Sections in this booklet include the following: Fabulous Jekyll the Island for the Era, The Founders (James Edward Oglethorpe and Sir Joseph Jekyll), The Dubignons, Yachts of Jekyll, Their Own World with Their Own People, The Rockefeller Cottage, Dinner at Jekyll, Life as It was Lived on Jekyll, Sports of Jekyll, A Sanctuary for Birds, and the like." In 1886 Jekyll Island was purchased from the du Bignons for $125,000. A group of tycoons with such illustrious names as Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Harriman, George F Baker, Joseph Pulitzer, J.J. Hill, Cyrus McCormick, John Pierpont Morgan and others desired a resort, exclusive, secluded and warm enough to bask in the sun during the severe months of January February and March. Such a place was Jekyll and for over sixty years it has been said 'no unwanted foot ever touched the island'." [from the front matter] It is now a state park. Most all you might want to know about Jekyll Island in its heyday and up to 1964.