Roberts City collection, 1920-2006.

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Roberts City collection, 1920-2006.

The Roberts City Collection consists of essays and notes on Roberts City and various individuals and families that lived in the community, photographs of families, individuals and buildings, and news articles about Roberts City. The collection was donated to the USF Library in 2001 by George Lopez, Roberts City's unofficial historian. Mr. Lopez added more materials to the collection in June 2006.

3 boxes (1 linear ft.)

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Roberts City (Tampa, Fla.)

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Neighborhood in West Tampa, Florida. Roberts City was a Tampa, FL neighborhood located between West Tampa and the Hillsborough River, bounded on the north by the river, on the west by North Boulevard and on the south by Cass Street. It was established in 1893 when the Ellinger cigar factory moved to the area from Key West, and was originally known as Ellinger City. The Ellinger factory closed in 1902, and after the J. W. Roberts and Son cigar factory opened in 1909, the ...

Lopez, George A.

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