Useful
Resources
1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
2. The Immigrant World of Ybor City: Italians and Their Latin
Neighbors in Tampa, 1885-1985 (Florida Sand Dollar Book)
by Gary R. Mormino, George E. Pozzetta This book contains several
chapters on the history of Latin Culture in Ybor City.
3. Tampa Cigar Workers: A Pictorial History
by Robert P. Ingalls, Louis A., Jr. Perez
From the founding of Ybor City in 1886 to the dispersal of Tampa's
Latin population in the years following World War II, this book
documents the history of the Cuban, Spanish, and Italian immigrants
who created the cigar industry in Tampa and the extraordinary multi-ethnic
community that flourished around it. Over 200 photos capture this
community's personalities and way of life while commentary drawn
from newspaper accounts, oral histories, and archival documents
identifies and explains each photograph's historical place and
significance.
4. Pacheco’s
Art of Ybor City by Ferdie Pacheco - In the Hippodrome
Gallery!
Artist/writer/doctor Ferdie Pacheco, who grew up in Ybor City,
includes reproductions of his oil paintings about the life and
culture of Ybor City in the 30s and 40s and earlier as well as
his narratives about them.
Weblinks
National Park Service site
(A National Park Service site with Ybor City cigar industry info)
Ybor City Museum Society
booklet (PDF format)
An illustrated exhibition booklet from the Ybor City Museum
Society entitled “How We Got Here: Immigration and Ybor
City, 1886-1921.”
Cigar Making in Ybor City
Cigar Making in Ybor City: A Photographic Look
Cigar Art from the University of South Florida
A collection of cigar art at the University of South Florida.
Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library System
The website for the Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library System,
which houses the Burgert Brothers Photographic Collection (with
over 100 images relating to the cigar industry in Tampa).
NPR
All Things Considered
NPR All Things Considered story about lectors
Other Online Study Guides
Pittsburgh
Public Theatre (PDF Format)
McCarter Theatre
Seattle Repertory
Theatre (PDF Format)
South Coast Repertory
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