Celebrate Thanksgiving with this 1958 Burgert image of a Children’s Thanksgiving program at Baptist Goodwill Center in Tampa, Florida. Courtesy of Burgert Brothers: Neg. no. 765372 | PA 12713.
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Celebrate Universal Children’ Day with this 1953 Burgert image of Children’s Day on the Midway at Florida State Fair in Tampa, Florida. Courtesy of Burgert Brothers: Neg. no. F5593-1 | PA 6512.
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Remember the men and women who serve with a 1949 Burgert image of the American Legion Seminole Post 111 men’s group in Tampa, Florida. Courtesy of Burgert Brothers: Neg. no. 65523| PA 11170.
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This handsome volume is published by the University Press of Florida and claims to be the “largest number of Uelsmann images collected in a single volume”.
Jerry N. Uelsmann is considered a forerunner of 20th century photomontage. He began teaching art at the University of Florida in 1960 and has continued to live and work in Florida. He is considered a master in his field and his work gathered great popular and critical attention and has continued to do so for over half a century.
The Library Art Collection has 2 works by Uelsmann in the John F. Germany Permanent Collection. “Garth” and “Photofield” can both be accessed at the following link:
http://digitalcollections.hcplc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15391vra/id/5/rec/1
Uelsmann Untitled Florida Collection R 770.92 Uelsmann
Celebrate Aviation History Month with this 1928 Burgert image of three Florida Airways planes parked in proximity to each other at Drew Field in Tampa, Florida. Eddie Rickenbacker, the WWI ace and aviation visionary founded the pioneering, although financially unsuccessful airline. Courtesy of Burgert Brothers: Neg. no. V1057 | PA 1555.
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Remember Halloween of yesteryear with this image from the Helping Hand Day Nursery and Kindergarten, which was located at 1609 Central Avenue in Tampa (1947). Courtesy of Burgert Brothers: Neg. no. 34289(R467) | PA 10901.
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On Saturday, November 1st, at 11:00 AM the Florida Genealogical Society presents its annual Show and Tell. Members bring documents, artifacts and other items to describe and share with everyone.
The meeting will be held in the Auditorium of the John F. Germany Public Library, 900 N. Ashley Drive in Tampa.
Celebrate with these two images were taken, during HMS Resolution’s visit to Tampa (1944). It was a Royal Navy WWI era battleship, which was used in WWII, but in 1944, was converted to a stoker’s training ship. These two images capture the crew member’s visiting the ship’s bridge. Courtesy of Burgert Brothers: Neg. no. 53147 (921) and 53142 (916) | PA 10655.
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What best-selling crime fiction writer lives in Tampa?
Michael Connelly, who is best known for his detective novels featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch and for his fiction about criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller (The Lincoln Lawyer).
“This is the story of a dog, a beautiful Irish Setter, which played a heroic part in one of the worst tragedies in the history of the Florida West Coast . . . . The dog was brought to Fort Brooke early in the winter of 1838-39 from New Orleans by an army officer. He was still a puppy when he arrived at the camp – a mischievous, frolicsome puppy which romped all through the garrison. All the officers and men liked him and saw to it that he had plenty of nourishing food. Perhaps because of that it grew with amazing rapidity and by late spring weighed more than 60 pounds. He had a friendly disposition and rarely got into fights with other dogs, but when he did he fought with vicious ferocity and soon became dog king of the fort.” (pg. 513)
The dog, named Romeo by a sutler (a civilian merchant who sells provisions to an army unit in the field) who spent the most time with him, became known as King Romeo, hero of the Caloosahatchee, after a massacre on July 22, 1839, that subsequently ended the truce with the Seminole Indians.
You can find this intriguing story, and many more, in Volume II of Pioneer Florida by D.B. McKay, a Tampa native who became the owner/publisher of the Tampa Tribune newspaper in 1900. He was elected Mayor of Tampa in 1910, serving in that position for 14 years, and was again elected Mayor in 1927. In 1949, he was appointed Hillsborough County Historian and began writing a column in the Sunday Tampa Tribune called “Pioneer Florida,” which he wrote until his death in 1960. His writings were collected into a three-volume set of books called Pioneer Florida.
This book (and its companion volumes) can be located in our online catalog at http://www.hcplc.org (or directly at http://bit.ly/1dk6E7D) or here in the Florida History and Genealogy Library (Fla 975.9).
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