Members of the Walker family, with bungalow residence in background: Tampa, Fla.
Photograph Order Number PA 4228
Courtesy, Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library System
About this photograph
- Photograph Order Number
- PA 4228
- Negative Number
- 5400
- Date
- Creator
- Burgert Brothers
- Publisher
- Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library
- Date of Photographic Print
- 1980 printing.
- Source (original item)
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. +1 negative (21 x 26 cm.)
- Format
- JPEG2000
- General Notes
- Neg. no. 5400; taken September 1920.;Members of family from left to right on the back row are as follows:;Edna (Addison-Moore), Carl Nelson, Mattie Nelson, William Albert Walker Sr., Emily May Walker,;Grace Jorden, and Leslie J.L. Jordon.;Middle row:;Bernice Addison, Willie Moore, Bertha Miley, Macon Miley, Mary Elizabeth Walker,;Benjamin Franklin Walker, Florence Walker, and Robert A. Walker.;Front row:;Robert Addison, Charley Miley, Ralph Miley, Franklin Walker Sr., Lilian Walker, Eunice Walker, Margaret Walker,;Mary Walker, Thelma Walker, and Louise Walker.;Family member identifies the address as 930 E. Giddens Ave. from Benjamin Franklin Walker's obituary.;
Subjects
Tampa in the 1920s
The Roaring Twenties nearly doubled Tampa — from about 51,600 people in 1920 to over 101,000 by 1930 — and the Florida land boom is written all over these photographs. Developer D.P. Davis literally dredged up two little islands at the mouth of the Hillsborough River to build Davis Islands, announcing the plan in January 1924. Outlying spots like Sulphur Springs, Palma Ceia, and Temple Terrace took off. Bayshore was still a county brick road when the October 1921 hurricane shoved an 11-foot surge over the waterfront. Streetcars still ruled — nearly 24 million riders in 1926 — even as cars started clogging the streets. Browse this decade's photographs for the boom as it happened — new subdivisions, crowded beaches and boulevards, and a city stretching into its suburbs.
Sources: Davis Islands (City of Tampa); Ahead of its time, Davis Islands promises more than Florida sunshine (Tampa Bay History Center); Tampa Bay / Tarpon Springs Hurricane of 1921 (National Weather Service); Bayshore Boulevard: A Brief Look at its Historic Past (USF Libraries)