"Tampa Cigar Workers documents the history of the Cuban, Spanish, and Italian immigrants who created the cigar industry in Tampa and the extraordinary multi-ethnic community that flourished around it. More than 200 photos capture this community's personalities and way of life while commentary drawn from newspaper accounts, oral histories, and archival documents identifies and explains each photograph's historical place and significance.

In linking the photographs with historical text, the authors allow the cigar workers to tell their own story, in the language of their day."--BOOK JACKET.