ABOUT THE COLLECTION
The Gandy Commercial and Aerial Photography collection documents the history of Tampa Bay from the 1950s to the 2010s through the lenses of Skip Gandy and his father, Sandy Gandy. Skip Gandy's innovative aerial photography allows us to see urban and natural settings of the Tampa Bay region, illustrating the intersections between growing communities, businesses, and the rapid changes to the region's ecosystem.
In 2023, USF Libraries held a fundraiser to digitize more than 125,000 negatives, slides, and prints. Items not curated for online publication will be available for research in the USF Libraries Reading Room. The digital collection is divided into categories to facilitate browsing.
Only a small sample of this robust collection is available online.
Looking for a different search experience?
Browse Gandy on the Tampa Through Time Portal or through our digital archive on Digital Commons.
DIGITIZATION PROJECT
USF Libraries' raised more than $41,000 for the Gandy Tampa Photography Collection in 2023, and the project is underway! We look forward to completing our goal of sharing over 100 years of Tampa photography publicly available online. The Gandy collection will be made available under an Attribution 4.0 Creative Commons license.
COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS
