La Gaceta (Tampa, Fla.) 1922-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
7,687 issues from 1926 to 1952, published in Ybor City, Florida, digitised for Chronicling America.
La Gaceta is the oldest continuously published paper from Ybor City, a neighborhood in Tampa, Florida. The Manteiga family has published the paper without interruption since 1922. La Gaceta was founded by Victoriano Manteiga, a Cuban immigrant, then published by his son, Roland Manteiga, from 1961 until Roland’s death in 1998. It is currently published by Patrick Manteiga, Roland’s son, and Angie Manteiga, Patrick’s wife. As the most widely circulated Spanish-language newspaper in Tampa, La Gaceta contributes to and documents over a century of life and community in Ybor City.
La Gaceta began in 1922 as a four-page daily evening paper with a dense seven-column layout, published Monday through Saturday, excluding holidays. In 1943 it expanded to eight pages, until late 1953, when it briefly decreased to six pages before expanding to twelve pages in 1954. In the same year, the paper changed from publishing daily to weekly, a schedule it maintains today. Over time, the paper has become progressively longer and is now regularly over 50 pages an issue.
Devoted to serving Ybor City’s diverse immigrant residents, La Gaceta primarily covers local news and events. It still includes a daily “Notas Sociales” section, which publishes personal news including births, baptisms, weddings, divorces, and local events. In the early decades of La Gaceta, the “Teatro” and “Eventos” sections published theatrical performances, concerts, Latin dance exhibitions, and cultural events for the Latin…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Ybor City, Florida, United States
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress