View of office and yard of Southern Lumber and Supply Company at head of Tyler Street at Ashley Street, copied from Tampa Tribune Midwinter Edition 1900: Tampa, Fla.
Photograph Order Number PA 4330
Courtesy, Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library System
About this photograph
- Photograph Order Number
- PA 4330
- Negative Number
- TPL 155
- Date
- Creator
- Tampa Tribune.
- 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. TPL 155; taken ca. 1900.; Date indicated is date of newspaper publication, date image copied is unknown.
Subjects
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)