U.S. bought the islands from Denmark in 1917. These recollections come from the era when Danes were in charge of the sugar plantations.
The Little Colonel's good times book was popular as a gift to young women. It combined advice from much loved author Annie Fellowes Johnson, with lined pages designed for individual journals. Florence Button, who lost her mother to the 1918 flu epidemic, came to Miami with her father in December 1920. The last entry in the journal is for 1924. Florence Button was the daughter of Frank M. Button, noted landscape architect. Button worked on the landscaping for the City of Coral Gables.
W. F. J. McCormick was a Coconut Grove seasonal resident from the late 1880s on.
T53S, R41E is within the City of Miami.
Rich-Harris Inc. was the local agent for the Rochester American Insurance Company of New York. The company underwrote fire and windstorm policies for commercial and private properties in the Miami area.
In 1945 Miami purchased a plot of land known as the Graves tract, which lay between the Sunny Isles causeway and N.E. 136th Street, and between U.S. 1 and the Intracoastal Waterway. The land was originally acquired for an airport, but when Miami International Airport was built at its present location, the land was designated for Interama.
Interama (Inter-American Center Authority) was created in 1951 to plan, finance, construct, operate, and maintain an Inter-American Cultural and Trade Center. The proposed center was to have been a permanent international exposition providing cultural, educational and trade activities similar to those of a world's fair. By the mid-1970s attempts to raise money for development had failed. In 1975, the Authority was abolished, and Interama was not completed. The land came to be used for Florida International University, a sewage treatment plant, Munisport landfill, the Oleta River Preserve, and private development.
Born in Palatka, Fla., Wesley Dallas moved to Miami in 1955 when he was eight years old. A graduate of Mays High School, Dallas joined the U.S. Army and served in Vietnam, later climbing to the rank of captain.
Dallas later worked with the Dade County Public Safety Department, where he held the distinction of being one of the few African Americans to work in the homicide division.
Glenn Curtiss established a military flight school, 1916-1921, first on Miami Beach, then near the Miami Canal in Hialeah. Earl S. Hoag graduated from the Curtiss Flying School.
Wright was the Director Publicity for the City of Miami.
Album may have been complied by a Vizcaya employee or his/her spouse.
The Shadow K, built by the Purdy Boat Co. was one of the fastest diesel yachts in America.
Around 1900, the Bownes moved from Petersbury (VA) to Florida around 1900. They lived in Bartow, Mulberry, Tampa and Tallahassee before moving to Miami during the 1920s.
Malcolm Matheson built his winter home at 3645 Main Highway prior to 1930. The name, Swastika, was dropped about the time World War II began.
Sara "Zada" Wilchyk moved with her parents Great Neck (NY) to Miami in 1936. In the late 1930s, she married Marvin Elliot Williams, they had two children, Geraldine and Marvin.
The donor's father, D. S. Smith, was an early Miami realtor.