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Dublin Core
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Title
Tampa Collection
Alternative Title
Tampa Collection
Subject
Tampa (Fla.)
Description
Collection of digital images, documents, and other records depicting the history of Tampa, Florida. Series descriptions are based on special topics, the majority of which students focused their metadata entries around.
Before European settlement, the present-day Tampa area was inhibited by the Tocobaga and Pohoy tribes, which were decimated by European diseases and warfare. In 1824, the U.S. Army established the area's first permanent settlement called Fort Brooke, located at the mouth of the Hillsborough River.
Siding with the Confederacy during the American Civil War, Tampa served as the site of the Battle of Tampa, an inconclusive battle from June 30 to July 1, 1862; the Battle of Fort Brooke on October 16, 1862; and the Battle of Ballast Point on October 18, 1863. Incorporated as a town in 1949, Tampa experienced immense growth in the 1880s with the arrival of the railroad, the discovery of phosphate, and the development of the cigar industry.
From the 1920s to the 1950s, Tampa became a major center for organized crime, Prohibition-era bootlegging, and illegal bolita, a Cuban-influenced lottery. Tampa grew considerably during World War II, as the city was chosen for the location of MacDill Field, now the MacDill Air Forced Base (AFB). The founding of Busch Gardens Tampa and the University of South Florida also spurred growth.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/133" target="_blank">Hillsborough County Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Tampa, Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Contributor
Cepero, Ray
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.tampagov.net/city-clerk/info/archives/city-of-tampa-incorporation-history" target="_blank">Incorporation History</a>." City of Tampa, Florida. http://www.tampagov.net/city-clerk/info/archives/city-of-tampa-incorporation-history.
<span>Mulder, Kenneth W. </span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22947009" target="_blank"><em>Tampa Bay, Days of Long Ago</em></a><span>. Tampa, Fla: P & M Pub. Co, 1990.</span>
<span>Brown, Canter. </span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42476956" target="_blank"><em>Tampa Before the Civil War</em></a><span>. Tampa, Fla: University of Tampa Press, 1999.</span>
<span>Kerstein, Robert J. </span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45202019" target="_blank"><em>Politics and Growth in Twentieth-Century Tampa</em></a><span>. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2001.</span>
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
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Title
Southern Regional Postmaster General Frank Marcum Sommerkamp III
Alternative Title
Regional Postmaster General Frank Sommerkamp
Subject
Post offices
Description
Frank Marcum Sommerkamp III (ca. 1924-2008), the Regional Postmaster General of the Southern District during the Gerald Ford Administration. Born in Washington, Sommerkamp served in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross. At the time that this photograph was taken in the 1970s, Sommerkamp was serving as a Regional Postmaster General in the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). He was eventually promoted to Senior Assistant Postmaster General in Research and Technology, a position that he held until his retirement in 1980.
Type
Still Image
Source
Original black and white photograph: Private Collection of Texann Ivy Buck.
Is Referenced By
"<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/7622" target="_blank">Letter from A. B. Cleveland to All Sectional Center Managers of Tampa Districts (November 25, 1975)</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/7622.
Coverage
Tampa, Florida
Contributor
Buck, Texann Ivy
Date Created
ca. 1975
Format
image/jpg
Extent
138 KB
Medium
1 black and white photograph
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by Texann Ivy Buck and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://orlandoremembered.org/" target="_blank">Orlando Remembered</a>
Curator
Stoddard, James
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
Private Collection of Texann Ivy Buck
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060202775.html" target="_blank">Frank M. Sommerkamp III: Postal Service Executive</a>." <em>The Washington Post</em>, June 3, 2008, page 1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060202775.html.
"<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060202775_2.html" target="_blank">Frank M. Sommerkamp III: Postal Service Executive</a>." <em>The Washington Post</em>, June 3, 2008, page 2. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060202775_2.html.
Frank M. Sommerkamp
Frank Marcum Sommerkamp III
post offices
Regional Postmaster General
U.S. Postal Service
USPS