Gasparilla II Royal Court of 1905 with King William C. Gaither and Queen Mary Carnes; Captain George W. Hardee on left: Tampa, Fla.
Photograph Order Number PA 1998
Digital scan coming soon
The library hasn't digitized this image yet — but the original print exists in their archive, so Bob can still produce it for you. Quote order number PA 1998 when you reach out.
About this photograph
- Photograph Order Number
- PA 1998
- Negative Number
- 38935
- Date
- Creator
- Burgert Brothers
- Publisher
- Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library
- Source (original item)
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. +1 negative (26 x 21 cm.).
- Format
- JPEG2000
- General Notes
- Gasparilla II Royal Court of 1905 with King William C. Gaither and Queen Mary Carnes; Captain George W. Hardee on left: Tampa, Fla.
Subjects
Notes
Image part of the Burgert Brothers Digitization Project; to be added.
Tampa in the 1900s
The 1900s were Tampa's boomtown years. Ybor City was already being called the Cigar Capital of the World by 1900, and across the river, West Tampa — built up from 1892 by Hugh Macfarlane, incorporated in 1895 — kept adding factories until more than 200 of them were rolling out over a million cigars a day by 1910. Electric streetcars tied it all together: downtown, Ybor, West Tampa, Tampa Heights, all the way south to Ballast Point. Phosphate, citrus, and shipping kept the port humming, and Henry Plant's 511-room Tampa Bay Hotel was still the place to winter, even after the city bought it in 1905. And in May 1904, Tampa threw its very first Gasparilla pirate parade — on horseback. Photographs from this decade show that boomtown confidence up close — downtown commerce, the port at work, streetcars on new lines, and Tampa's first Gasparilla parades.
Sources: Birth of Ybor City, the Cigar Capital of the World (Library of Congress); Tampa's historic streetcars (Tampa Bay History Center); Tampa Bay Hotel (U.S. National Park Service); Gasparilla (City of Tampa)