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

Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 164 pages) : illustrations Series New world diasporas New World diasporas series. Contents Biographical and Literary Note / Noel M. Smith -- Historical Introduction / Andrew T. Huse -- Part I. Weyler Is Coming! -- The Dispersal, Passport, The Voyage, Key West -- Arrival -- Part II. Tampa -- Its Inhabitants, An Overview -- Franklin Street -- The First National Bank -- Electric Streetcars -- The City Hall -- The Barroom -- The Police -- The Black Race -- The Fruit Stand -- Coffins -- The Tampa Bay Hotel -- Dr. Rafael Echeverría -- My Flag -- Benito Aranguren -- Ballast Point -- His Majesty the Milkman -- Palmetto -- The Mailman -- The Oxen -- The Emigrants -- A Baptism in Hillsborough -- Part III. Ybor City -- Pachata -- My Valise -- The Mockingbirds -- Bonifacio Byrne -- Suna Echemendía -- La Estrella Solitaria -- The Volunteers -- The Railroad Station -- His Shadow -- Barber Shop -- Liceo Cubano -- The Sanchez Sisters -- Federico de la Torre Club -- An Audition for Lector -- Ramón Rivero -- Ice -- Cherokee Club -- Carolina la patriota -- From the Countryside -- Juan Arnao -- Carbonell's Bookstore -- Carriages -- The Reading -- The Café -- Part IV. West Tampa -- Overview -- The River, Bridge, Oysters and Boats -- Martín Herrera -- Céspedes Hall -- Fernando Figueredo -- Epilogue Summary "Translated into English with extensive notes and a wealth of supplementary material, this narrative of a nineteenth-century Cuban e̹migre̹ brings to life the early Cuban exile communities in Tampa"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 07, 2020) Subject SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration. Travel SUBJECT Tampa (Fla.) -- Description and travel Subject Florida -- Tampa Form Electronic book Author Smith, Noel (Art museum curator), translator, writer of introduction. Huse, Andrew T., writer of introduction LC no. 2020032987 ISBN 9780813057644 0813057647

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