The Cigar Industry Changes Florida

Resources at Other Institutions

• Teaching with Historic Places Lesson Plans, National Park Service
  • Ybor City: Cigar Capital of the World
    Discover how immigrant cigar makers in this section of Tampa, Florida, adapted to life in the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th century while maintaining their ethnic identity.
    
    
• Burgert Brothers Photographic Collection, Hillsborough County Public Library
  The Burgert Brothers Photographic Collection 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.
  
  
• Special & Digital Collections, University of South Florida Libraries
  • Burgert Brothers Collection of Tampa Photographs
    Burgert Brothers was Tampa’s leading commercial photographic firm from 1918 to the early 1960s.
  • Tampa Cigar Industry and Art Collection
    The department's near-complete run of the Tobacco Leaf industry journal and its collection of lithographic cigar box labels represent an important aspect of American culture and Floridiana.

Bibliography

Cooper, Patricia A. Once a Cigarmaker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919.

Ingalls, Robert P. and Louis A. Perez, Jr. Tampa Cigar Workers: A Pictorial History. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003.

Long, Durward. “The Open-Closed Shop Battle in Tampa’s Cigar Industry, 1919-1921.” Florida Historical Quarterly 47, no. 2 (Oct. 1968): 101-121.

Mendez, Armando. Ciudad de Cigars: West Tampa. Tampa: Florida Historical Society, 1994.

Perez, Jr., Louis A. “Between Encounter and Experience: Florida in the Cuban Imagination.” Florida Historical Quarterly 82, no. 2 (Fall 2003): 170-190.

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