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Check out the Florida Memory lessons and primary sources about the cigar industry. For example, below is the photo from- The Cigar Industry Changes Florida: The Lector Reads to Workers, which uses the Photo analysis from National Archives to interpret the image.

Use the core economic principles and associated economic questions below to engage in critical thinking.

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Now, check out the National Park Service Place-based Case on Ybor City: Cigar Capital of the World. Images for the lesson are embedded in the slideshow below and a printed copy of the lesson is available on ERIC.

What do you think these workers are producing?

(Burgert Bros. Collection, TampaHillsborough County Public Library System)

Photo 1: Ybor Cigar Factory, c. 1886-90. (National Park Service)

Photo 2: Cigar Workers' Houses (Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library System)

Photo 3: Cigar workers at the Ybor Factory, 1925

Photo 4: L'Unione Italiana, 1919.

Photo 5: Circulo Cubano, 1926.

Photo 6: Centro Asturiano, 1925.

Photo 6: Centro Asturiano, 1925.