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Loy Glenn Westfall Cigar Industry Research collection, 1860-1982, Date acquired: 00/00/2015

 

Summary

Creator:
Westfall, L. Glenn (1943-)
Abstract:
L. Glenn Westfall, a retired professor of history, donated his Research Files to the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library during the summer of 2005 and a subsequent accession in 2006. The Subject Files follow an alphabetical arrangement and generally maintain the subject designations established by the donor. These boxes represent the largest portion of the collection (4.0 linear feet). Major holdings include research and primary source documents on the Alafia River area, the cigar industry in Florida, mutual aid societies, cultural activities in Ybor City, immigration patterns in the Tampa Bay region, and biographical files. Areas of special interest include clipping files that document activities in the Ocala during the 1880s and 1890s and records of gatherings from the Tampa Old Timers Association during the early 1970s. All manuscript materials in the second accession (boxes 10 and 11) fall into this category. Items in the Sanchez and Haya Real Estate Holdings boxes illustrate the business activities of a company that acquired and sold land parcels during the boom-era days of the cigar industry. Financial records from the late 1920s and early 1930s offer a portrait of the company's assets and liabilities. Abstracts of title provide historical research for various blocks and tracts of land in Ybor City. Thiese boxes also include correspondence sent and received by Martin Carrabello, a Tampa attorney who oversaw the estate after some members of the Sanchez and Haya families had passed away. The Serials and Periodicals box contains various publications collected by Westfall. In addition to newspaper articles and clippings written in the mid and late 1970s about the status of Ybor City, researchers may also consult various issues of the Bulletin of the Suncoast Archaeological Society (coverage 1976-1980) and articles and papers written by Westfall. In the Cigar Art and Miscellaneous Materials reside two distinct types of materials. The cigar art includes lithographic prints and images from cigar manufacturers and printers. This box also contains records of artillery training exercises at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, during the First World War. One item comprises the Government Documents series: the bound "Register of Prisoners Confined in the County Jail of Hillsborough County, Florida," for the years 1904 though 1909. An index in the front provides the accession number of the prisoner; with that number, researchers can examine basic information about the prisoner, his physical makeup, the crime committed, and the disposition of the case. The Films and Media Materials includes three films. Two of these films describe the cigar industry in Ybor City and exist in 16mm format. The other film is 8mm.
Extent:
15.61 Linear Feet
23 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Glenn Westfall Cigar Industry Research Collection, USF Libraries - Tampa Special Collections, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

Background

Scope and content:

Includes research materials from the Toacco Leaf and U.S. Tobacco Journal (originals and reproductions) on the activities of the cigar industry in Tampa and Key West, Florida.

Biographical / historical:

Westfall is a scholar of Florida history and the Cuban tobacco industry. His historical interest in Tampa and Key West go back to 1969 and 1971, respectively. His dissertation on Vicente Martinez Ybor (1975) paved the way for future scholarship on Ybor City, as well as his trio of books on the Cuban cigar industry in Florida (Tampa, Key West, and Marti City). He taught at Hillsborough Community College.

Note written by A. Huse

Acquisition information:

Glenn Westfall

Donation

Arrangement:

Subject files are from boxes 1-5, pertaining to the history and development of the cigar industry in Tampa. Box 6 consists of News Articles, box 7 the Financial Records and Miscellaneous Materials, box 8 holds, Serials, Periodicals, and Assorted Publications, box 9 Abstract Titles and more News Clippings, box 10 houses the Abstract of Title to Llano Building, box 11 contains files on Hugh MacFarlane, and box 12 consists of the remaining miscellaneous files that coincide with the reels (housed in box 13). Box 13 movie reels. Box 14-15 consist of research files and box 16 consists of St. Petersburg Building Research. Box 17 contains files from Theodore Lesley and F. Garcia and Brothers Cigar Factory. Boxes 18-20 contain research materials including images, newspaper clippings, brochures, postcards and interviews with various people involved with the cigar industry. Box 21 contains published copies of Westfall's Cigar City Trilogy, US History II textbook as well as notes and research for the books. Box 22 has a myriad of oral histories both recorded and filmed with various persons involved with the Florida cigar industry. Finally, the collection has a set of two lithographic stones of the Cuban Talk and Morey and Co companies.

Accruals:

The Glenn Westfall Collection, 1860-1940 -  oringally acquired by donation on March 20, 2014 -  was merged into the Loy Glenn Westfall Cigar Industry Research Collection, 1880-1982 in February 2019 by A. Huse and K. Mitchell.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Terms of access:

None. The contents of this collection may be subject to copyright. Visit the United States Copyright Office's website at http://www.copyright.gov/ for more information.

Preferred citation:

Glenn Westfall Cigar Industry Research Collection, USF Libraries - Tampa Special Collections, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

Location of this collection:
The University of South Florida, Tampa Campus
4202 East Fowler Ave. LIB122
Tampa
FL
33620-5400
USA