Archives Awareness Week

Tampa Bay History

City of Tampa’s Archives Awareness Week: July 14-20

Since its establishment in 1987, the City of Tampa Archives and Records Division has been dedicated to chronicling the city’s growth and diverse heritage through historical preservation. The Archives’ role …

Jun 29, 2024

Archives Awareness Week: Maps and Artifacts from 1924

Rodney Kite-Powell, director of the Touchton Map Library, and Heather Culligan, curator of collections, will use maps and artifacts to showcase Tampa life in 1924. The event will be held …

Jun 29, 2024

Archives Awareness Week: Decade of Change: Florida in the 1920s

Join a lively tour of the Tampa Bay History Center’s Wayne Thomas Gallery with docent Jim Dinsmore on Friday, July 19, from noon to 1 p.m. The program is free …

Jun 29, 2024

Archives Awareness Week: 1924: Life in Tampa’s Scrub Community

Fred Hearns, curator of Black history for the Tampa Bay History Center, and Ashley Morrow, program manager for Tampa’s Black History Museum, will discuss the lives of Black residents in …

Jun 29, 2024

Archives Awareness Week: 100 Years Ago: Tampa in 1924

Fred Hearns, curator of Black history at the Tampa Bay History Center, will join a panel discussion about 1924. The event will be held Monday, July 15, from 3 to …

Jun 29, 2024

Education

Archives Awareness Week is July 9–15, 2023

About Archives Awareness Week Recognizing the need to document and preserve the development and unique heritage of Tampa and its government, the City of Tampa Archives was founded in 1987. …

Jun 22, 2023

Archives Awareness Week: 100 Years Ago: Tampa in 1923

Join the Tampa Bay History Center’s curator of Black history, Fred Hearns, and local historian E.J. Salcines to learn more about Tampa’s past. This free lecture takes place at 3 …

Jun 22, 2023

Archives Awareness Week: Florida in the 1920s

Bootleggers flooded Florida with illegal booze, flappers danced to jazz, and workers erected the first elaborate Art Deco buildings in Florida in the 1920s. At the same time, Mediterranean fruit …

Jun 22, 2023

Archives Awareness Week: Exploring Tampa’s History Through Photographs

See Tampa’s development over the past century and how it compares with today’s landmarks during a special talk at 11 a.m. on Friday, July 14, in the Tampa Bay History …

Jun 22, 2023