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

The collection includes photographs, video footage, art work, and ephemera pertaining to the life of the balseros, or Cuban rafters, during their stay in the refugee camp located at Guantanamo Bay U. S. Naval Base (Gitmo) in Cuba.

The photographs capture everyday life of the balseros, including: objects they built, art they created, the base's exterior and environs, families reuniting and religious and social gatherings. Of note are photographs of school children, as well as artworks created by them.

Topics covered include: Camp Life, Recycling Creativity, Balsero interviews, Children and School and Art Life in the Camps.

Most contact sheets and images are captioned. Written and printed documents are mostly in Spanish, with some English translation.

This series documents an extensive research field research project on the cultural traditions of South Americans in the Miami metropolitan area. Though Miami’s South American community grew rapidly between the 1980s and the 2000s, their expressive traditions had previously been the subject of relatively little documentary work. Fieldwork conducted by the Museum during 2001 and 2002 by the Historical Museum of Southern Florida (now HistoryMiami Museum) examined three of the largest South American groups in Miami: Colombians, Venezuelans, and Peruvians, focusing on music, which proved to be the most public and symbolically charged form of expression in all three communities. Musical genres documented include bambucos, música llanera, vallenato, cumbia, papayera, joropos, música andina, música criolla, parranda, gaita. Researchers Martha Ellen Davis, Nathalia Franco, and Dorian Bermudez recorded extensive commentary on relationships between musical traditions and the experience of migration. The project was supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Materials include: photographic images; audiocassette tape recordings of musical performances and interviews; and videocassette tape recordings of musical performances. Note: this series includes recordings for which HistoryMiami Museum does not hold copyright.

Additional digital formats of audio files available: Records were digitized 2015 – 2016. Users must contact staff ahead of visit for access.

This series contains materials associated with a project in which photographers from the Iris PhotoCollective documented the South Florida Haitian community’s expressive traditions between 2006 and 2007. The collection of photographs produced by the project give special attention to traditional arts in the lives of individuals during religious and festive events, offering a view of Haitian life in South Florida that rarely represented in mass media coverage of the community. Among the traditions featured are fe koupe (steel drum sculpture), woodcarving, sewing, cooking, baking, drumming, dancing, singing, poetry, kite-making, and children’s games. Materials include: field notes and reports; photographic images; audiocassette tape and compact disc (CD) recordings of interviews with artists and experts by Joanne Hyppolite and Kiki Wainwright.

Additional digital formats of audio and image files available: Records were digitized 2015 – 2016. Users must contact staff ahead of visit for access.

HistoryMiami’s South Florida Folklife Center (SFFC) carried out the Guayabera Preservation Initiative to collect, preserve, and increase public knowledge of the Guayabera, a traditional piece of menswear that is popular in Latin America and the Caribbean. The initiative resulted in the exhibition, “The Guayabera: A Shirt’s Story” at HistoryMiami Museum from June 28, 2012 to January 13, 2012 and an online exhibition found at www.historymiami.org/guayabera. The initiative also resulted in the creation of a Guayabera textile collection housed in HistoryMiami Museum’s object collection. This project was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and Cubavera.

Michael Knoll created the project and was lead researcher and curator. Jorge Zamanillo was the project photographer and conducted interviews. Antolin Garcia Carbonell helped with historical research and fieldwork.

This collection consists of born digital materials. Please contact staff ahead of your visit to access these materials.

Audio:

Files include WAV recordings and selected transcripts of interviews with Jose Ayuso, Ramon Aviles Gongora, Raul Armando Maglioni Montanez, Ciro Bianchi, Emiliano Nelson Guerra, Manuel Echevarria Gomez, Marta Veronica Vega, Tomas Canul, Nancy Pelegrin, Ricardo Selman, Silvia Mayra Gomez Farinas, and Piedad Subirats. These interviews were recorded in Merida, Mexico and Cuba during research tips in 2012.

Images:

Files include TIF, XMP, NEF, and JPEG images taken in Mexico in January 2012 and Cuba in February 2012. Shots include street scenes, photos of interviewees, businesses (former and current), sketches, old photographs, advertisements, and documentation of the process of making a Guayabera.

Exhibition:

Folder includes exhibition photos and design files such as text panels and reader rails.

Grant Documents:

Files include documents submitted for the National Endowment for the Arts grant application and reporting documents.

Videos:

Files include AVI videos of a folk dance troupe performing in the main plaza in Merida, Mexico in January 2012.

The School Ephemera Collection gathers ephemera and news clippings that document events, places, people and issues related to schools in South Florida. Files include  brochures, pamphlets, newspaper clippings and related materials.

Brochures and pamphlets related to various galleries and exhibitions displayed at Miami International Airport (MIA).

Twelve watercolor renderings for a high-rise addition to the building includes  sketches for furnishings and landscaping. A print and photograph show an aerial view of the motel and grounds.

This collection consists of copies of Federal Writers’ Projects and Works Progress Administration (WPA) reports on Cuban folk culture in Jacksonville, Tampa, Ybor City, Key West, and other “odd pockets” in Florida during the early 20th century. The original type-written documents are stored the collections of the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/collections/federal-writers-project/). The reports include studies of the Circulo Cubano, the Centro Asturiano, the Centro Español, the Chinese Charade, Voodooism, the Nanigo Cult, Witchcraft, the Church, as well as Social Life and Education of Cuban and Spanish communities. Additionally, transcriptions of folktales, superstitions, and numerous life histories are included. Materials include: photocopies of typewritten transcriptions, reports, essays, and ephemera.

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.

Artificial collection of posters and broadsides dating back to the 1890s. Includes political campaign and propaganda posters, public service announcements, protest signs and placards, movie posters and oversized business advertisements. Promotional posters give a topical overview of tourism, music, theater and film advertising in South Florida. Political posters include campaign materials and social protest signs that document diverse political viewpoints.

Highlights from the collection include Word War II propaganda posters, Department of Health issued ZIKA outbreak warning announcements, and items collected from protest movements in and around Miami-Dade County, including Anti-Castro protests, protests against BP from the 2010 oil spill, Anti-Trump rallies, 2017 Women’s March, protesting the Musilm ban and 2018 anti-gun violence in schools.

The collection gathers ephemera that documents events, places, people and topical issues related to the area outside of the South Florida region.

For South Florida cities and regions, see the South Florida and Caribbean Ephemera Collection.

This collection documents the local and national praise and gratitude Bryan Norcross received following his continued coverage during South Florida’s Hurricane Andrew. Gratitude from South Floridians was expressed in the form of thank you letters, posters, song, newspapers, magazine articles and a TV movie.

Various slides of Miami attractions in 1964. Views and events include: Vizcaya, Parrot Jungle, Miami Seaquarium, Miami Beach Auto Show, Lincoln Road, Miami International Airport (tarmac aerials and Pan Am check-in desk) and International Photographic Exposition.

Calendars produced by South Florida institutions, organizations, and businesses.
-Dade County Police calendar, 1997.
-South Florida Firefighters calendar, 2005.