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Views of Pope John Paul II's visit to the Miami area, shot by photographers from various newspapers in the photo pool created for the event. The images are 35mm negatives, mostly in color. For each shoot/folder, a label gives the location, date, photographer, and photographer's affiliation.

Collection consists of ink on linen and pencil on tracing paper drawings of the church and its kitchen and parsonage. The church was designed between 1916 and 1918, and the kitchen and parsonage, between 1924 and 1926. Some of the sheets are damaged or fragile.

Photographer John Gillan's views of the Cape Florida Lighthouse, Biscayne Bay from the Barnacle, Barnacle boathouse, Biltmore Hotel, Miami City Cemetery, Charles Deering Estate, Spanish Monastery, Anderson's Corner, Prado Entrance, and the Dade County Courthouse from the Metro-Dade Cultural Center Plaza.

Reminiscences, mainly of 1896-1926, of pioneer life, the 1920s boom, and the 1926 hurricane. Junior League members and journalist Nixon Smiley interviewed people who lived in Dade County prior to the 1926 hurricane.

Narrators are: Adam G. Adams, Maude Richards Black, Jewel H. Blanton, Janet Watson Carson, Patty Munroe Catlow, C.W. Pete Chase, Charles Franklin Cushman, Dorothy Dean Davidson, James Donn, Hoyt Fraser, John J. Fritz and Carolina Fritz Collins, S.M. Greene, Mrs. Maurice R. Harrison, Frederick M. Hudson, J. Newton Lummus, Alice MacVicar, John Pickett Miles, Stanley Mott, Louisa Oxar, Russell Pancoast, Mrs. C. Boyton Reese, Jack Sewell, Henry Overstreet Shaw, William and Jane Sutcliffe, Cecil Van Landingham, Peter Van Vox, Mrs. Sidney Weintraub, Jessie Weiss, Rose Weiss, and Helen Budge Wright.

Interviewers include Arva Moore Parks and Nixon Smiley.

Documents and large beeswax seal pertain to the history of a 120 acre tract of land on Abaco Island, Bahamas.

Black-and-white, large format negatives, mainly studio portraits, with some images shot on location. Includes views of adults, children, students (usually for yearbooks), weddings, debutantes, bar mitzpahs, first communions, and so on. Schools and organizations located in Coral Gables, such as Coral Gables Senior High School, predominate. Negatives shot by Pilkington Studio photographers.

Views include U.S. troops, Cubans, Havana fortresses, Colon Cemetery, countryside, and towns. Some unidentified views are probably of Chicago, Illinois.

An artificial collection containing photograph albums compiled by families, businesses, and individuals depicting daily life and leisure in Florida, particularly in South Florida and the Miami region. Many of the albums document throughout Florida. The geographic scope include the Bahamas, Cuba, Miami-Dade County, the Everglades, the Florida Keys, and Palm Beach. Images include architecture and landscape, real estate development, businesses and organizations, ethnic groups (including African Americans and Cubans), hurricanes, sports, transportation, tourism, and wars (including the War of 1898 and World War I).

Full color marketing brochures produced by various real estate companies to promote their properties during the Miami and South Florida building boom of the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Correspondence, photographic prints, clippings, periodicals, and reports record Perrine family history, especially the Indian Key massacre, subsequent Perrine land grant claims, and material relating to the poems and articles of Sarah Rodgers Palmer. Also includes books from Dr. Perrine's Indian Key home and other 19th century family books, genealogical material on the Perrine and Townsend families and eight scrapbooks created by Sarah Rodgers Palmer.

Correspondence, photoprints, legal documents, bills, newsclippings, and notes on family history are concerned with the linked McDonald-Reilly-Pero families; with Henry M. Flagler, for whom Joseph A. McDonald built hotels; and gives sidelights on the early history of Miami. Includes details on the building and furnishing of John B. Reilly's home at 1411 SW 11 Street, Miami (1926-1928); considerable correspondence on a proposed sugarcane plantation and sugar refinery for Miami (1911); and a number of letters from Flagler to Joseph McDonald.

Senior class report cards for Joseph H. Pero and Donald Carey Pero, from St. Theresa School, Coral Gables, ca. 1935

Files include  brochures, pamphlets, playbills, newspaper clippings and related materials on dance, music, and the theatre. Includes information on performances, venues and artists.

Pencil drawing on cardboard

The bulk of the collection consist of black and white (8 x 10) photographs. They document economic activities, transportation, infrastructure, area attractions, sports, places and events. Also included are images of several county and city commissioners. Of note is a photograph of President John F. Kennedy holding a plan for the proposed Torch of Friendship monument to be erected on Biscayne Boulevard.

A very small number of the photos are stamped on the back with the date and name of the photographers.