The Burgert Brothers were early photographers in Tampa, Florida. The Tampa–Hillsborough County Public Library System has a collection of nearly 19,000 of their photos at the John F. Germany Library in downtown Tampa. Their photos span the late 1800s until the early 1960s. The photos depict scenes in Tampa during times of war, natural disasters sich as the 1921 Tampa Bay hurricane, economic booms, economic busts, transportation, building projects, bungalows, African American life, cigar factories, sponge docks, strawberry fields, mercantile businesses and banks, service stations, and leisure activities such as park and beach scenes, Gasparilla parades and pirate ship views, Florida State Fairs, golf, shuffleboard, checkers, and tennis. The University of South Florida also has a digital coll