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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>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
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Title
Letter from Jim Macbeth to A. B. Cleveland (October 6, 1975)
Alternative Title
Letter from Macbeth to Cleveland (Oct. 6, 1975)
Subject
Sneads (Fla.)
Post offices
Museums--Florida
Description
A letter from Jim Macbeth, the Chief of the Florida Bureau of Historical Museums, to A. B. Cleveland, Tampa District Manager for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). In the letter, Macbeth requests any obsolete artifacts relating to USPS. In particular, he is interested in post office boxes and rubber stamps.<br /><br />The bureau was established in 1967 when the Florida Legislature established the Florida Board of Archives and History to replace the Florida Board of Antiquities. The board included three additional bureaus: the Bureau of Archives and Records Management, the Bureau of Historic Sites and Properties, and the Bureau of Publications. In 1969, the Florida Division of Archives, History and Records Management was created to replace the board. The division was later renamed the Florida Division of Historical Resources in 1986.
Type
Text
Source
Original letter from Jim Macbeth to A. B. Cleveland, October 6, 1975: Private Collection of Texann Ivy Buck.
Requires
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html" target="_blank">Adobe Acrobat Reader</a>
References
"<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/7595" target="_blank">Florida's Barefoot Mailman</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/7595.
Coverage
Sneads, Florida
Tampa, Florida
Creator
Macbeth, Jim
Contributor
Buck, Texann Ivy
Date Created
1975-10-06
Format
application/pdf
Extent
307 KB
Medium
2-page typewritten letter of State of Florida Department of State letterhead
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by Jim Macbeth.
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://dos.myflorida.com/historical/about/history-of-the-division/" target="_blank">History of the Division</a>." Florida Department of State, Florida Division of Historical Resources. http://dos.myflorida.com/historical/about/history-of-the-division/.
A. B. Cleveland
Florida Bureau of Historical Museums
Florida Department of State
Florida's Barefoot Mailman
Jim Macbeth
letter carriers
mail carriers
mailman
mailmen
museums
post office box
post office boxes
post offices
postmark stamps
postmarks
postmasters
Sneads
Tampa
U.S. Postal Service
USPS