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  • DETAIL OF ARCADE IN FRONT SECTION OF THE BUILDING - Cherokee Club, 1318 Ninth Avenue, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

    DETAIL OF ARCADE IN FRONT SECTION OF THE BUILDING - Cherokee Club, 1318 Ninth Avenue, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

  • Tampa Cigar Box Factory, Tampa, Fla. Found 10 small boys and girls. Work is slack now. Bad reputation. Jan. 28, 1909.

    Tampa Cigar Box Factory, Tampa, Fla. Found 10 small boys and girls. Work is slack now. Bad reputation. Jan. 28, 1909.

  • The Tampa Bay Hotel, now the University of Tampa

    The Tampa Bay Hotel, now the University of Tampa

  • A Tampa messenger boy in March 1933

    A Tampa messenger boy in March 1933

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  • U.S. Custom House, Tampa, Fla. 1905

    U.S. Custom House, Tampa, Fla. 1905

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  • View of west side of George Washington Junior High School, facing southeast. - George Washington Junior High School, 707 Columbus Drive, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

    View of west side of George Washington Junior High School, facing southeast. - George Washington Junior High School, 707 Columbus Drive, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

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  • GENERAL VIEW SHOWING FRONT EAST FACADE, FROM SOUTHEAST. Photo supplied by the Florida Division of Archives, History and Records Management, Tallahasse, Florida. - Sulphur Springs Hotel, 8122 North Nebraska Avenue, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

    GENERAL VIEW SHOWING FRONT EAST FACADE, FROM SOUTHEAST. Photo supplied by the Florida Division of Archives, History and Records Management, Tallahasse, Florida. - Sulphur Springs Hotel, 8122 North Nebraska Avenue, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

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  • 1. GENERAL VIEW SHOWING FRONT NORTH FACADE - Gutierrez Building, 1603 East Seventh Avenue, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL -- Ybor Bakery

    1. GENERAL VIEW SHOWING FRONT NORTH FACADE - Gutierrez Building, 1603 East Seventh Avenue, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL -- Ybor Bakery

  • Ybor Cigar Factory, 1916 North Fourteenth Street, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL
Significance: The original building was the first brick cigar factory constructed in Tampa in 1886. Vincent Martinez Ybor, its founder, constructed a model city surrounding the factory where the cigar workers resided. The factory was the focal point for the cigar workers who lived in the area called Ybor City. Ybor's building was the largest hand-rolled cigar complex which was typical of a distinct industry and era in the history of Florida. It was unique because it brought industrialization to a predominantly agrarian town. Large numbers of Latinos who worked in the factory were introduced into a white Anglo-Saxon based society. The success of the factory stimulated other cigar industries to move to Tampa, making Ybor City the cigar capital of the United States by 1900. In less than twenty years Tampa changed from a small port town to a thriving city. From the steps of the main factory building, Jose Marti, a Cuban patriot and martyr, rallied support for Cuban independence. After the Spanish-American War, these steps were removed to Cuba to become a National Shrine.

    Ybor Cigar Factory, 1916 North Fourteenth Street, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL Significance: The original building was the first brick cigar factory constructed in Tampa in 1886. Vincent Martinez Ybor, its founder, constructed a model city surrounding the factory where the cigar workers resided. The factory was the focal point for the cigar workers who lived in the area called Ybor City. Ybor's building was the largest hand-rolled cigar complex which was typical of a distinct industry and era in the history of Florida. It was unique because it brought industrialization to a predominantly agrarian town. Large numbers of Latinos who worked in the factory were introduced into a white Anglo-Saxon based society. The success of the factory stimulated other cigar industries to move to Tampa, making Ybor City the cigar capital of the United States by 1900. In less than twenty years Tampa changed from a small port town to a thriving city. From the steps of the main factory building, Jose Marti, a Cuban patriot and martyr, rallied support for Cuban independence. After the Spanish-American War, these steps were removed to Cuba to become a National Shrine.

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