Resources Related to Cigar Making in Florida

Resources at the State Library and Archives of Florida

1. Florida Electronic Library (Some FEL resources are available only in Florida, or with a Florida library card.)

   The Florida Electronic Library is a gateway to select Internet resources that offers access to comprehensive, accurate, and reliable information. Available resources include electronic magazines, newspapers, almanacs, encyclopedias, and books, providing information on topics such as current events, education, business, technology, and health issues. The Florida Electronic Library offers information for all age groups, including homework help for students and resources for teachers.

2. Ask A Librarian

   Ask a Librarian provides Florida residents with live virtual reference services via local library customized web sites from 10 a.m. to midnight Sunday through Thursday (EST), and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday (EST).

Other Resources

1. 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.
2. 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.

3. 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.