New bridge at Tampa, Florida, 1914 – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of New bridge at Tampa, Florida, 1914. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: New bridge and Plant Park, Tampa, Fla.
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New bridge at Tampa, Florida, 1914
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Tampa, Florida, in 1914 was a port city built on cigar making, shipping, and the phosphate trade that moved out through Hillsborough Bay. Cigar factories in Ybor City and West Tampa employed many of the city's workers, and Cuban, Spanish, and Italian families gave the district much of its character. Bridges and causeways were needed to connect the growing neighborhoods on both sides of the Hillsborough River to the downtown core and the rail lines that served the port. Tampa residents of the period knew their city as a center of tobacco and commerce on the Gulf coast, and a new crossing was a sign that the town was expanding faster than its older roads could handle. When war broke out in Europe that summer, cigar makers and shippers in Tampa began to feel the effects on trade and credit.
| Created / published | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Creator | fishbaugh, w. a. (william a.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Florida |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,163 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | New bridge and Plant Park, Tampa, Fla. |
| Reference | FL New bridge at Tampa 1914 |
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