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The bulk of the collection is from events staged at the Actors Playhouse, Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center, Gables Stage and the Miami City Ballet. In addition to items from other South Florida theatres, there are programs and brochures from the Carbonell Awards for excellence in theatre and the arts in South Florida.

Additional materials donated in 2015, and covering the 2012-2015 seasons are housed in box 13. Also includes a DVD and correspondence outlining The New World Symphony’s initiative for increased funding to improve programs and community outreach.

In addtion to playbills, materials pertaining to Joe Robbie Stadium, Hialeah Racetrack, and the Marlins were donated as part of the 2017 accrual. Of note are the donor's scrapbook and licensing documents regarding a suite at Joe Robbie stadium, personal photographs at Hialeah Racetrack and World Series baseball ephemera. These materials may be found in boxes 15 and 16.

A framed handwritten poem, "The Gift Outright," dedicated to the Newtons, is the centerpiece of this small and lovingly assembled collection celebrating the works and life of Robert Frost, and his connection with Florida over the many winters he spent in Key West. Includes several of his privately printed poems (some of which are inscribed or signed), signed copies of his collected poems, correspondence (chiefly from his friend Kathleen Morrison to Miss Jessie regarding Frost), photographs and guest books. Other materials include newspaper clippings, first day covers, programs, and other ephemera pertaining to Frost.

Interviews of Jewish women in Dade County, Florida. Narrators relate their career accomplishments and their role in the Jewish community. Narrators are: Bertha Abess, Mollie Brilliant, Lois Dobrin, Judy Drucker, Myra Farr, Adele Faske, Audrey Finkelstein, Goldie Goldstein, Rose Gordon, Ruth Greenfield, Rhea P. Grossman, Hannah Kahn, Marcia Kanner, Helen Kohen, Bertha Claire Lee, Sylvia Levin, Malvina Liebman, Nancy Lipoff, Sadie Rosenblum, Sandy Rubinstein, Marilyn Segal, Ruth Shack, Edith Irma Siegel, Mollie Silverman, Lily Stone, Marilyn Smith, Bette Tomar Taicher, and Claire Weintraub (interviewed in 1970).

Photocopies of partial transcripts of testimony given at the trial of Jim Morrison, singer and leader of the rock group The Doors. Transcripts include testimony for 1970 August 17, 19, 20, 25, 27 and September 2,3,16, and 17. Also included are photocopies of related contemporary newspaper articles, and a composite photographic print.

Materials pertaining to Jimmy Ellenburg and his activities. Chiefly photographs of Jimmy's Hurricane restaurant, a memoir of Stiltsville (Biscayne Bay), the photographs show interior and exterior views of the restaurant. An oversized scrapbook contains photographs of Stiltsville and Mr. Ellenburg's guests (including Florida Governor, LeRoy Collins) relaxing and fishing.

Also included are letters of Miami Senior High School and letters of appreciation from various dignitaries.

These papers, found under a house in Key West, Florida, in 1987, are largly comprised of letters and notes to Mr. Powers from fans, relatives and associates, relating to several flag-pole sitting events conducted by him during 1927 and 1928.

No search has been made for independent sources of information relating to Mr. Powers, though clippings reveal that these events were rather extensively reported in newspapers of the time.

These papers reveal that Powers had lived in and continued to have family and other associates in New Bedford, Massachusetts. In July 1927, he sat on a flag-pole atop the Morrison Hotel in Chicago for 16 days, 3 hours and 27 minutes, thus becoming in the words of a promoter the “World Champion Flagpole Sitter.”

In January of 1928 he was similarly engaged in Miami, Florida, on the Ponce de Leon Hotel. He had similar plans for the La Concha Hotel in Key West, Florida, and was considering such a venture for Havana, Cuba.

Mr. Powers also contracted to do normal steeplejack work, such as painting high structures.

Photographic prints and ephemera relating to Miami area professional baseball teams and players.

Photographs include the Miami Marlins, Miami Orioles, Baltimore Orioles, Miami Beach Flamingo, and the Baltimore Orioles minor league baseball teams; Miami Marlins coaches, managers, fans and the Miami Stadium.

Also included are game rosters, scorebooks, and advertising pieces featuring the 1957 Miami Marlins Team with Satchel Paige

The photographs document the lives, work habits, environment and customs of cowboys in Florida's cattle country.

Three bound volumes of captioned photographs record the 1916 exploration of South Florida by taxonomist and botanical explorer, John Kunkel Small,1869-1938, Curator of Museums at the New York Botanical Garden. The expedition and documentation of the project was underwritten by Charles Deering, Chicago industrialist and part time resident of Cutler (Fla.).

Small recorded what remained of the original landscape primarily near Miami and the Florida Keys as he foresaw significant changes coming to the area from drainage programs, railroad construction, and land development for agriculture and settlement. Views include the Everglades, Florida Keys, hardwood hammocks, lime-sinks and pinelands, drainage canals, early road construction south of Duval County to Fort Myers, the Deering estate and the USDA’s plant introduction garden in Miami. Volumes 2 and 3 include Miami aerial views by Richard B. Hoit and postcards of Miami and environs.

The expedition concentrated primarily on Miami and environs, and the Florida Keys. Including the Royal Palm Hammock, Addison Hammock, Sykes Hammock, Snapper Creek Hammock, Hattie Bauer, Costello Hammock, Sands Key, Long Key and Key Largo among others.

Containing press passes, newspaper clippings, and photographs of personalities and news events that McDermott covered during his career. Includes the Harry Oakes murder trial in Nassau (Bahamas), Clark Gable on Miami Beach during World War II, and Presidents Kennedy and Nixon.

Manuscript and printed maps collected by Johnson H. Pace, of subdivisions, mainly in Miami-Dade County (Fla.) including Coral Gables, Shenandoah, Silver Bluff, Miami Springs, and others. Consists of original drawings, blueprints, blue-lines, and so on. Many of the maps are annotated in pencil.

One folder contains architectural plans of buildings in downtown Miami.

A fifth, clam-shell box contains hand-written, itemized descriptions of the maps, written on index cards and loose leaf paper.

Photographs documenting Jose Cariño Garcia's involvement with the Filipino Club of Greater Miami and the local American Legion Bataan Post 151.

A wedding scrapbook and photos commemorating his marriage to Virgina Lee at Gesu Catholic Church in 1947 and a photo album and other images showing Garcia and friends at play in Miami and Chicago.

Virgina Lee's graduation memory book from Miami Senior High School, a program for a ball held at the Miami Woman's Club, and blueprints for the Garcia's home in the Hialeah subdivision of Pine Heights.

Includes personal letters, newspaper clippings, poems, and manuscripts of Jose Guerra Flores' plays and short stories.

This collection documents a portion of Senior Judge Robert M. Deehl's 52 years of service on the bench in Miami-Dade County. The scrapbook and newspaper clippings highlight certain prominent or ongoing cases and issues that Mr. Deehl presided over, such as traffic violations including drunk driving, drag racing, car sales corruption, uninsured motors, and the advent of the Implied Consent law.

In addition, the clippings cover a range of topics such as solar heater disputes, removal of the Coral Gables Courthouse, ratings of judges in Miami-Dade County, and the legal profession in general, as well as crime and vice clippings. Some clippings cover specific trials including those of Miami City attorney George Knox as well as ex-Miami Dade School Board member Kathleen Magrath.

Of particular importance are clippings discussing Cassius Clay’s (Muhammad Ali) arrest for driving without a license. Among these clippings are a handwritten letter signed by Muhammad Ali asking Judge Robert M. Deehl if he would consider an early release, which was subsequently granted.

The bulk of the papers consist of binders of census record photocopies and references from various sources concerning the Tuttle and Sturtevant families. Also includes Julia Tuttle's handwritten will, correspondence, newspaper clippings and photographs.