Research Catalog

Title

Tampa : impressions of an emigrant / Wenceslao Gálvez y Delmonte ; translated by Noel M. Smith ; introduction and notes by Noel M. Smith and Andrew T. Huse.

Author

Gálvez y del Monte, Wenceslao, 1867-

Publication

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2020]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Smith, Noel (Art museum curator)
• Huse, Andrew T.

Description

xvii, 164 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm.

Summary

"Translated into English with extensive notes and a wealth of supplementary material, this narrative of a nineteenth-century Cuban emigrant brings to life the early Cuban exile communities in Tampa"--

Series Statement

New world diasporas

Uniform Title

New World diasporas series.

Subjects

• Informational works
• Florida > Tampa
• Travel
• Tampa (Fla.) > Description and travel

Genre/Form

Informational works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Biographical and Literary Note / Noel M. Smith -- Historical Introduction / Andrew T. Huse -- Part I. Weyler Is Coming! -- The Exodus-The Passport-Traveling-Key West -- The Arrival -- Part II. Tampa -- Its Residents and an Overview -- Franklin Street -- The First National Bank -- Electric Streetcars-The Employees-Traffic -- The City Hall -- The Barroom -- The Police -- The Black Race-Their Neighborhood-The Cemetery, Its Church -- The Fruit Stand -- The Houses-Roaches-Fort Coffins-The Salvation Army -- The Tampa Bay Hotel: The Patio-The Décor-The Guests -- Doctor Rafael Echeverría -- My Flag -- Benito Aranguren -- Ballast Point -- His Majesty ... the Milkman -- Palmetto-Its Signs-Its Parties-The Return -- The Mailman -- The Oxen -- The Emigrants -- A Baptism in the Hillsborough River -- Part III. Ybor City -- Pachata-An Intalian Buriel-A Fire in Pachata -- My Valise -- The Mockingbirds -- Bonifacio Byrne -- Suna Echemendía -- The Solitary Star (La Estrella Solitaria) -- The Volunteers -- The Train Station -- His Shadow -- Barbershop -- Liceo Cubano -- The Sánchez Sisters -- Club Federico de la Torre -- An Audition for Lector -- Ramón Rivero -- Ice -- Cherokee Club -- Carolina la patriota -- From the Countryside -- Juan Arnao -- Carbonell's Bookstore -- Carriages -- The Cigar Factory-The Reading -- The Café -- Part IV. West Tampa -- Overview -- The River-The Bridge-The Oysters-The Boats -- Martín Herrera -- Céspedes Hall -- Fernando Figueredo -- Epilogue.

Call Number

JFE 21-4962

ISBN

• 9780813066639
• 0813066638

LCCN

2020032986

OCLC

1155324699

Author

Gálvez y del Monte, Wenceslao, 1867- author.

Title

Tampa : impressions of an emigrant / Wenceslao Gálvez y Delmonte ; translated by Noel M. Smith ; introduction and notes by Noel M. Smith and Andrew T. Huse.

Publisher

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2020]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New world diasporas

New World diasporas series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Smith, Noel (Art museum curator), translator, writer of introduction.

Huse, Andrew T., writer of introduction.

Other Form:

Online version: Gálvez y Delmonte, Wenceslao. Tampa Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2020] 9780813057644 (DLC) 2020032987

Research Call Number

JFE 21-4962