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Organizational records (bulk 1927-1977) include minutes, a scrapbook, yearbooks, programs and Florida Federation of Garden Clubs activities.
Of note is the Legislative Committee’s letters to Florida State Representatives supporting the preservation of coral reefs, the Coconut Grove shoreline, and Islandia as part of the National Parks System.

This collection captures the lives of Jewish retirees in Miami Beach in the 1980s through color and black & white photographs. It includes leisure activities such as dancing, singing, exercising, and sunbathing. Burt depicts Jewish culture throughout the city including synagogues, restaurants, shops and the Passover holiday. Her collection includes various apartments, condominiums and hotels, many of which were built in the iconic art deco and streamline modern styles. Her work seeks to portray demographic change, such as the shift in everyday language from Yiddish to Spanish which can be seen in the storefronts and street signage. She also captures the slow decaying of buildings in a time when historic preservation efforts had yet to go into effect.

The collection contains the photographs by Annette and Rudi Rada from 1946 to 1974. Some of the 1940s photographs appear to be taken before they moved to Florida. The bulk of the collection, however, covers the 1952-1956 period in which he regularly photographed houses for both the Miami News and the Miami Herald. The collection contains both black and white, and color, negatives and prints, as well as color transparencies and slides. The collection specializes in architectural photographs, and commercial photography. There are, however, several trips, one to Cuba in 1951, and one to South America in 1969.

This series documents a field research project and exhibition on Afro-Cuban Orisha Arts in Miami at the turn of the millennium. Since the 1960s, Miami has been at the crossroads of the Americas and emerged as one of the major centers of the Afro-Cuban Orisha religion—also known as Regla de Ocha, Yoruba religion, or Santería—and its array of traditional arts. A local religious community of over 100,000 practitioners is served by numerous specialists who produce beadwork, garments, cloth panels, metalwork, woodcarvings, altars, musical instruments, paintings, and other art forms. These works of art are expressions of spiritual devotion, inspired by the many orishas (deities) of the religion’s pantheon, such as Elegbá, Ogún, Shangó, Obatalá, Yemojá, and Oshún. Though Orisha artists are highly respected within the religious community, their work is not well known or understood by the wider public, and the exhibition explored their creativity in the context of the aesthetics and symbolism of their tradition.

On display at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida (now HistoryMiami) February 23-June 23, 2001, the exhibition was curated by Museum Director Stephen Stuempfle and co-curated by Miguel “Willie” Ramos, Ezequiel Torres, and Nelson Mendoza. Additionally, a website was created for the exhibition (http://historymiamiarchives.org/online-exhibits/orisha/orisha_start.htm). The project received major funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and additional support was received from the Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs Council and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners.

Materials include: field notes, grant applications and reports, exhibit-related permissions and documents; ephemera; photographic prints, contact sheets, 35mm slides, negatives, and logs; audiocassette tape recordings of lectures, roundtable discussions, interviews, musical performances, and audio components of the exhibition; digital images on a Zip 100 disc; and VHS and Hi8 MP video tapes, including video components of the exhibition.

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

Playbills, photographs, and other materials chronicle Artist Jack Amoroso’s association with the Coconut Grove Playhouse and the Playhouse Gallery in Coconut Grove.

The Miami Street Culture Project was an initiative to document and present cultural traditions practiced in the streets of Miami. HistoryMiami’s South Florida Folklife Center conducted fieldwork to identify prominent artistic, communal, recreational, and occupational traditions practiced within Miami’s neighborhoods and produced an exhibition to share these traditions with the larger community. In addition to field research and an exhibition, the project includes an artifact collection, a printed publication, and cultural programming. The purpose of the project was to research and highlight street traditions that give the city its unique character and identity.

HistoryMiami’s South Florida Folklife Center (SFFC) carried out the Florida Jai-Alai Project, a fieldwork project aimed at identifying and documenting the state's leading practitioners of the Basque ballgame's traditions. Research was conducted in Orlando, Fort Pierce, Hamilton County, Gainesville, Dania Beach, Quincy, Ocala, St. Petersburg, West Palm Beach, and Miami. The project began in June 2010 and concluded in December 2012. This project was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Michael Knoll created the project and was the lead researcher. Robert L. Stone was the photographer and conducted fieldwork in North and Central Florida. The Florida Folklife Program also assisted with archival research.

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

Audio:

Files include MP3 recordings, interview logs, and transcripts of interviews with Christophe Forestier, Benjamin Bueno, David Dodd, Juan Ramon Arrasate, Kathleen Jones, Manuel Ruiz, Martin Fleischman, Richard Berenson, Stuart Neiman, Juan Jose Carroquino, Clemente Garcia, Jesus Pradera, Wagimen Soemanto, Carlos Pita, Glen Richards, Charles David Brower, Juan Leon, Raphael Ferragut, Santiago Echaniz, Francisco Elorriaga, Roger Coscarat, Dale Popp, Ivan Martinez, Luis Gardner, Carlos Campos, and Paco Gonzalez.

Images:

Files include JPEG and CR2 images taken at frontons in Orlando, Fort Pierce, Hamilton County, Quincy, St. Petersburg, Ocala, Dania Beach, Miami, and West Palm Beach. Photographs by Robert L. Stone.

Fieldwork Documents:

Files include notes for fieldwork conducted in Hamilton County and Orlando.

Grant Documents:

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

The Florida Folklife Program sought to explore Miami’s inner world thirty years ago with the first Miami-Dade folklife survey conducted for the 1986 Florida Folk Festival. The survey highlighted Miami’s traditional culture and provided the impetus for the creation of the South Florida Folklife Center at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, now HistoryMiami Museum. In 2016, the Florida Folklife Program partnered with the now three-decades-old HistoryMiami South Florida Folklife Center to reexamine Miami’s folk traditions and paint a new portrait of the city by exploring the question, “What makes Miami, Miami?” Fieldwork was conducted by HistoryMiami Museum’s Folklife Specialist, Vanessa Navarro, and Vice President of Curatorial Affairs and former staff Folklorist, Michael Knoll. The project was overseen by the Florida Folklife Program’s State Folklorist, Amanda Hardeman.

This field research project focused on customs and practices that are unique to Miami, particularly the sayings, occupations, musical styles, dance forms, beliefs, rituals, celebrations, and foodways that are quintessentially “Miami.” The findings of this study informed the 2016 Florida Folk Festival, and the artists and presenters chosen for the program reflect a sampling of the components that make Miami the unique and vibrant city it is.

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

Black-and-white photographs shot by Alfred Munroe, depicting places and people living around Biscayne Bay, Florida, before 1896. Views include Coconut Grove, Key Biscayne and Cutler. People include Julia Tuttle. Albumen prints on original cardboard mounts.

Letters and diaries written by the Gilpins while on winter trips to the east and west coasts of Florida. John R. Gilpin (JRG) wrote most of the letters, and his wife Emma (EEG) wrote most of the diaries. Their son Vincent (VG) wrote a few letters and diaries.

The AmeriFirst Bank records consist of newspaper clippings; correspondence; pamphlets and ephemera; photographs; nine scrapbooks; two record books; two video-cassettes; and one reel of film. Material pertains to the structure and operation of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Miami, later known as AmeriFirst Bank

The scrapbooks, which document the history of the savings and loan and the construction of the AmeriFirst Building, contain correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and ephemera. Included in the collection is a copy of a report made by the Architectural Consulting and Guiding Committee on the Inter-American Cultural and Trade Center [Interama]. This report contains proposals, specifications, building costs, and plans detailing the site. The subjects of the videocassettes are brief, thirty-second spots on AmeriFirst Bank filmed before 1979 and in 1987. The reel of film contains over five minutes of footage on the opening of the Little River branch of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association.

Autographed studio portraits of journalists, politicians, businessmen, and celebrities. Includes William Jennings Bryan, Doyle E. Carlton, Glenn Curtiss, Jack Dempsey, Duncan Fletcher, Johnny Gruelle, William Randolph Hearst, Herbert Hoover, Claude Pepper, Eddie Rickenbacker, Frank B. Stoneman, S. Davies Warfield, Gar Wood, and others.

National Airlines annual reports, 1944-1978, maps, charts, and miscellaneous company publications (such as a 1975 Fact Book; 1965 system timetable, issues of Aloft and National Now). Also includes prints of National Airlines ad campaign that featured Bill Archer ("I'm Bill. I fly Linda..."). The 1975 annual report is not included; there is a handwritten note saying that it "was not issued a/c strike."

Papers include annual reports, photographs of police work and community involvement. Scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings of Kelly's military career, his tenure as sheriff, political campaigns for Sheriff's office, and his involvement in the Florida National Guards and his local branch of the American Legion.

The majority of the materials represent performances staged at the Coconut Grove Theater