Pioneer Commercial Photography The Burgert Brothers, Tampa, Florida

E-161: Univ Pr of Florida. Very Good. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 1992. Xiv, 303 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Over 200 photos of early Florida in this history of the Burgert family photography business which ran from 1899 to the mid-1950s. As Florida moved into the mainstream of American economy in the late 1890's, professional photographers established studios to document the events, people and enterprises that contributed to defining the Sunshine State as an integral part of the New South states. The firm of S. P. Burgert and Son was one of the most prolific photographers of the period and their images recorded the evolution of Tampa Bay from a small village on Florida's west coast to a dynamic city that epitomized the tremendous growth that marked Twentieth Century Florida. From it founding in 1899 until the mid-1950s, the Burgerts took thousands of images of the best and worst of the city. EB; 10 X 1 X 7.5 inches; 303 pages .