[Tony Pizzo collection] 1900-1994.

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[Tony Pizzo collection] 1900-1994.

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Photographs, post cards, diaries, articles, pamphlets, interviews, maps, broadsides, newspaper clippings, correspondence, manuscripts, printed ephemera, and artifacts associated with Tampa and Ybor City history. Also includes materials about Tampa's cigar industry and mutual aid societies.

141 linear ft. (287 boxes)

University of South Florida, USF Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7631086

University of South Florida, USF Library

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Unione Italiana (Tampa, Fla.)

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L'Unione Italiana (The Italian Club) is a mutual aid society established by Tampa's Italian immigrant community in 1894. For generations, it was a center for social and cultural life in Tampa. Its buildings in Ybor City and West Tampa offered a variety of recreational and educational activities to its members, including large, fully equipped theatres and ballrooms. The Italian Club also provided its members with medical care, unemployment insurance, and educational opportunities. Fro...

Centro Asturiano de Tampa

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Founded in 1902 by Spanish immigrants, the Centro Asturiano mutual aid society was established as a branch of a similarly named organization in Havana, Cuba. The club, which played a vital role in the social, economic and cultural development of Ybor City, Tampa, continues to provide its primarily Spanish, Cuban, and Italian members with social and recreational activities. The club building, located at 1913 N. Nebraska Avenue, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Fr...

Pizzo, Anthony P.

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Local historian. Anthony P. "Tony" Pizzo was born in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida, in 1912. He graduated from Hillsborough High School and Stetson University and served with the United States Army Ordnance Department in World War II. In 1950, he joined the Tampa Wholesale Liquor Company, Inc., remaining with the firm for thirty-four years. He established the Tampa Historical Society and the Ybor City Rotary Club and served as Hillsborough County Historian for ten years. ...