Presented by Chip Weiner & Rodney Kite-Powell

Local photographer Chip Weiner dug into the Burgert Brothers Photographic Collection – a massive photo archive of Tampa Bay that spans the 1880s through the 1960s – to create a series of before-and-after views of Tampa. Some iconic structures – like cigar factories or the University of Tampa – remain, while other sites are unrecognizable. The History Center’s Rodney Kite-Powell talks with Weiner about Tampa’s changing landscape.

Florida Conversations is free and open to the public, and is co-sponsored by the USF Libraries Florida Studies Center and supported by WUSF Public Media, and features authors and presenters covering a variety of Florida topics, from politics to fiction, history to environmental issues.

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