The King and Burgert families relaxing : Tampa, Fla.

Courtesy, Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library System

About this photograph

Photograph Order Number

PA 16097

Negative Number

N. A.

Date

[1914]

Creator

Burgert Brothers

Publisher

Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library

Source (original item)

1 photograph : b&w ;21 x 26 cm.

Format

JPEG2000

General Notes

Title text in brackets not supplied in ledger. Attached addendum: "L to R: (Standing) Fred West, Jr. Beb (Sitting), Olive (Sitting), Russell King (Stand), Al Burgert and family, probably Jenette St., Tampa." Written text on back of print: "Dear Olive: Ran across these while unpacking, I enjoyed looking at them so much. They took me back to some happy day even if I was sick. How are you and the children? Surely would enjoy hearing from you. Love from Hazel." Left to right in photo: Fred West Jr., Beverly West, Olive Baker King, Russell King, Al Burgert, Jean Evelyn Burgert, Nettie Burgert, Addie Burgert, Hazel Baker Burgert.

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Notes

The Burgert Brothers Photographic Collection of about 20,000 images presents a unique pictorial record of the commercial, residential and social growth of Tampa Bay and Florida's West coast from the late 1800s to the early 1960s. This portion of the collection is part of the Burgert Family Photographs.

Tampa in the 1910s

Tampa in the 1910s was a working city, full stop. Cuban, Spanish, and Italian immigrants kept the Ybor City and West Tampa factories humming at around a million cigars a day by 1910. And on New Year's Day 1914, pilot Tony Jannus flew former mayor A.C. Pheil across the bay from St. Petersburg to Tampa — the first scheduled commercial airline flight anywhere. Downtown kept building up around Franklin Street and the port, and Gasparilla grew teeth: the Krewe invaded by ship for the first time in 1911 (they took 1918 and 1919 off for World War I). The war hit home, too — Tampa built ships, sold Liberty bonds, and lost the Coast Guard cutter Tampa, torpedoed on September 26, 1918. The Burgert photographs from the 1910s document that working city street by street — its factories and festivals, its downtown blocks, and its neighborhoods filling in.

Sources: Birth of Ybor City, the Cigar Capital of the World (Library of Congress); The St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line: 90 Days that Changed the World of Aviation (USF Libraries); USCGC Tampa (U.S. Coast Guard); The Legend of Gasparilla: Myth and History on Florida's West Coast (USF Libraries)