Resources

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