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The collection spans Snyder’s entire career and beyond, ranging from 1929 until 1982. Architectural plans and drawings make up the bulk of the collection. A series of color renderings offer valuable glimpses at a few projects. The collection also includes a number of city, area, and subdivision maps, most focused on South Florida and Miami. A large number of photos, transparencies and photo albums, showing various residential, commercial and public projects, is concentrated on Snyder’s work of the 1950s and 1960s, but includes some valuable earlier examples. Some of Snyder’s personal papers complete the collection, including examples of his many awards and certificates, his World War II records, a bound map of Cuba, and other miscellanea.

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Elevations, renderings, plans, and details of houses, stores, churches, schools, office buildings, hotels, club houses, and apartments. Many of the drawings are notable for their draftsmanship. Structures represented in these drawings were built in Belle Isle, Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, Ft. Lauderdale, Homestead, Key Largo, Miami, Miami Beach, Miami Shores, and Star Island.

Significant buildings designed by DeGarmo and represented in these records include: Miami City Hall (1907) Demolished. -- McAllister Hotel (1916) 10 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami. Demolished. -- Miami Beach Community Church (1921) 500 Lincoln Road. -- Coral Gables Bank and Post Office (1924) Alhambra Circle, Coral Gables. -- St. Teresa (Convent) School (with Phineas Paist, 1924) Coral Gables. -- Colonnade Building (collaborator) Coral Gables. -- Douglas Entrance (collaborator) Coral Gables.

Single issues of newspapers relating to South Florida or the Caribbean area. Most of these papers were acquired for artifactual rather than informational value, from many donors over many years.

HistoryMiami does not specialize in newspapers, and is not actively collecting newspapers. This collection, therefore, is unlikely to grow.

The City of Miami photographic records contain negatives, photographic prints, slides, transparencies, and contact prints that document: expositions, festivals, people, places, and sporting events in the City of Miami and environs.

Some important figures and well known personalities documented in the collection are President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Mickey Mantle, Sammy Davis Jr., The Rolling Stones, Santana, and Bill Cosby. Other events include: the Homestead Rodeo Queen, North-South Golf, the one millionth passenger through the Port of Miami, elderly homes, infant care, beauty pageants, and civic amenities such as parks, zoos, and et cetera. The collection also documents the construction, opening, renovation, and development of the industries and civic amenities in the city of Miami.

The records include photographs of aircraft in various stages of  construction and others under consideration for purchase such as the Concorde. Other images show flight attendants, pilots and other airlines personnel. Documents include; printed copies of contracts between Eastern Airlines Inc. and the Air Line Pilots, guides for flight attendants and navigational manuals and blueprints of aircraft interiors. There are several issues of newsletters specific to Eastern Airlines personnel including Repartee from The Retired Eastern Pilots Association, others are aircraft industry related, but none include a full run. Ephemera include marketing and advertising materials such as fold-out planes, logos, brochures and a copy of "Sunrise at Eastern". A scrapbook of photographs and mementos compiled by flight attendants in training at the Miami Springs Villas and Hotel chronicle their training and social life at the hotel. Another scrapbook, compiled by Clunet Lewis, Manager in St. Louis, Missouri includes newspaper clippings and correspondence regarding Eastern and general airlines services in the St. Louis area.

Includes correspondence, personal and employment records, real estate records pertaining to family properties and school memorabilia. Of note is a copy of the booket "The story of Miami Shipbuilding Corporation". Albums, individual photographs and postcards document the families homes in Hialeah and Miami, and vacations and scenes around Florida, Cuba and the Caribbean, social and school events and Vizcaya during the construction phase. One album chronicles the building and launching of the boat "Miss Jean" at the Miami Shipbuilding Corporation boatyard.

The records include approximately 170 drawings for residential, commerical and institutional projects and 30 folders of project submittals for the American Institutue of Architects Florida/Caribbean honor and design awards programs.

Series 1, drawings, includes architectural drawings for buildings in the Bahamas, Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, Homestead, Key Biscayne, Miami, Miami Beach, Miami Lakes, Miami Shores, and elsewhere.

Series 2, project submittals:  Photographs illustrate the project submittals as well as document progress on various projects. Also included are Mr. Reed's examination papers with answers from the architectural boards for the states of Georgia and Florida.

Large format, black-and-white negatives, including aerial photographs, street scenes, and other views of the Miami and Miami Beach areas. The aerial views date from the 1910s-1930s, and the 1950s.

Negatives include 4x5 and 5x7 glass plate and film negatives. Contact prints have been made from many of the images.

Mainly albumen prints mounted on cardboard and shot by various photographers. The scenes depict streets, buildings, and the like in the City of Miami, from its founding in 1896 through its first few decades.

Views of the Port of Miami and environs show the Chalks Airline facility and the portside of the 600 block of Biscayne Boulevard (across from the Freedom Tower) which Hammonds refers to as the "rouge port" for the unofficial load and offload of cargo that took place at the site. Also includes images of the Freedom Tower before renovation.

Scrapbook of photographs and mementos, newspaper clippings, postcards, menus, newsletters, histories of the airlines, directories for airlines retiree organizations and other ephemera. Notable items include: memo from National Airlines putting Ms. Koch on the monthly weight program to achieve the required appearance standard, a strike manual from the International Union of Flight Attendants, and memos and notes regarding work stoppage due to a labor dispute at Pan Am.

Memorabilia pertaining to Pan American-Grace Airways include: posters, The Grace Log, travel brochures, ephemera, pamphlets, photographs, maps, match boxes, slides, flight bag, etc. Also includes a personal memoir by Mrs. Collins of her years with Panagra and a brief history of the airline.

Annual reports, News@11 (the official publication for judges and employees) and Evolving Justice (commemorative magazine highlighting the Circuit's 100 anniversary). Also include 2 directories of expert witnesses and consultants for the S. E. United States.

Copies of historic photographs of Miami-Dade County places and buildings are paried with images taken at the same location in the 1990s. Includes a list with captions.

Real estate records, financial ledgers, classroom material, personal correspondence, ephemera, survey maps and plans. Also include photographs, videos and film reels of her life and social activities.