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Old Tampa Home Photo Collection
August 31st, 2007 categories: Tampa Real Estate
If you’ve been in Tampa for anytime, you’ve most likely seen the old black and white Gasparilla photos that many offices seem to have. Those photos, as well as thousands more, were shot by the Burgert brothers, Jean and Albert, in the early years of last century. The Burgert Brothers Photography Studio shot over 80,000 photographs for clients in Tampa and West Florida from 1899 to 1963.
The Burgert Brothers photographs and negatives have been purchased by the Friends of The Library of Tampa-Hillsborough County, and the collection is now housed and preserved at the John F. Germany Public Library in downtown Tampa.
The Burgert Brothers photographed many Tampa homes during that period as well. There are some great photos of Palma Ceia homes, the great old bungalows in Hyde Park, and a great old photo of a historic Mediterranean Revival home in Beach Park, on Shore Crest Drive. There are also many photos of south Tampa businesses that are still around today. Most of the photos have the large water mark of the library on them which makes online viewing somewhat difficult however.
You can find the collection online at: http://www.hcplc.org/hcplc/liblocales/jfg/H&G/burgert/
Try searching on keywords such as these to find some great old Tampa home photos:
Hyde Park, Palma Ceia, Beach Park, Bel Mar, home, Bayshore, downtown, etc.
Some of my favorite finds:
The Austin Building on Henderson, just down the street from our office. Photographed in 1959, it still looks pretty much the same.
Galloway’s, a great contemporary furniture store, just across Henderson from our offices. Photographed at night in 1957.
The gates to Maryland Manor, at Bay to Bay and Manhattan, photographed in 1931. When and why did they get rid of them?!
Jake Walker’s Chicken and Chips at Dale Mabry and El Prado (NW corner), now a garden shop, same building.
A great shot of Bel Mar Shores (my neighborhood) during the early stages of development back in the early 1950’s.
Be careful, you can spend hours browsing the collection online.
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