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Maps of Forida, South Florida and the Caribbean dating from the late 1500s to the present. Also included are acreage maps, atlases, and plat books pertaining to South Florida and mostly focusing on the Greater Miami area.

Access Note: Most materials in Series 3 of this collection are stored off-site, please contact the Research Center staff at least a week in advance to arrange access.

An artificial collection comprising personal papers, journals, diaries, memoirs, newspaper clippings, and business documents. Pertains mostly to life in South Florida as recorded by residents and visitors.

Topics include community activities, leisure pursuits, real estate and personal accounts of natural disasters.

The collection also includes items related to aviation and the stationing of troops in Miami during WWII.

A collection of maps of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the coast of Africa published between 16th and 19th centuries. The collection documents the evolution of colonialism and trade in the “New World,” showing the shifting geographic borders of various empires and kingdoms, the expansion of Atlantic trade and sea shipping routes, and the movement of people and goods.

The collection contains mostly autographed portraits of nationally known entertainers, athletes, politicians, writers and businessmen who visited or corresponded with Snedigar. Includes Florida governor Frederick P. Cone, U.S. president Herbert Hoover, Henry Ford, Edsel Ford and William Randolph Hearst.

Correspondence and documents pertain to ecological and environmental concerns for the mangrove swamp, canal, and surrounding area on the Hector property situated on Biscayne Bay at St. Gaudens Road in Coconut Grove. Supporting documents include land appraisals, land purchase contracts, permits, maps and designs. A set of photographic prints show damage to the property from Hurricane Andrew.

Views of the FEC Key West Extension construction and dismantling, Long Key Fishing Camp, Bahia Honda Bridge, Henry Flagler on first train into Key West, 1909 Key West hurricane and the construction of the Overseas Highway. One group shows some Miami Beach schools being constructed under the aegis of the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, a New Deal Program. The postcards are Miami area views, and includes images of the Royal Palm Hotel and the Fair building.

The collection consists of 65 drawings of piers, arches, reinforced concrete rods, and other details such as arch openings and pier abutments. The Long Key - Conch Key Viaduct drawings date from 1905 and 1906, the years of its construction. Also included are drawings of other sections of the Key West Extension.

Includes images of Viking Flying Boat Co., Inc., seaplanes and other aircraft, Chapman Field Base and personnel and aerial views of Miami, some shot by photographer Richard B. Hoit. Three aviator's log books detail flights around the country and brochures advertising Viking. Also includes some letters of commendation and a certificate of service for Fales from the Civil Air Patrol.

Advertising industry materials from layouts and proofs to the finished product. The bulk represents work done for the hotel industry in Florida (particularly Miami Beach), the Caribbean, Cuba and South America. Also represented are jobs for commericial enterprises, and some public sector work for the Florida Department of Commerce (notably tourism and economic development).  Information on the Interama complex is also included.

This collection deals almost exclusively with advertising, spanning the design process from layouts and proofs to finished brochures and magazine advertisements. The majority of the brochures are for hotels in Florida (particularly on Miami Beach) and in the Caribbean and South American (most notably for the Intercontinental chain). Other ads relate to local businesses, including banks, electronic firms and travel companies. Public sector advertisements were commissioned by the Florida Department of Commerce (including the Divisions of Tourism and Economic Development) and the City of Miami Department of Publicity and Tourism. Finally, to a lesser extent there is information on the proposed Interama complex, the Greater Miami Opera Guild and southern Florida commerce and development (such as the Miami Beach Convention Center, Dade County Port Authority, Orlando International Free Zone). A few of the brochures are in Spanish.

The bulk of the materials pertain to Eastern Airlines and include: annual reports and financial statements, employee handbooks and pamphlets, timetables and fare schedules, promotional brochures. Items generated following the shutdown of schedules service in January 1991 include a brochure for the airlines asset liquidation sale and a document for the Chapter 11 cases of Eastern Airlines, inc.

Carnival Air Lines materials include a copy of the magazine Carnival Air, a poster and two photographs of airplanes from the company's fleet.

Scrapbooks and folders contain newspaper clippings, correspondence, campaign materials and photographic prints pertaining to Whitworth's involvement in public life and his social activities. Some government publications and newsletters from various county and state organizations are also included.

Biographical Note: Miami-Dade County as a Hialeah Councilman, Dade County Commissioner, State Representative in the Florida House of Representatives and elected circuit court judge. As commissioner, Whitworth secured federal funds to reimburse the county for medical aid given to Cuban refugees at Jackson Memorial Hospital. During his term as State Representative he was instrumental in the successful efforts to reform the state's judicial system and in the 1971 session, he sponsored, among others, two major bills that were signed into law. One was the marijuana felony-misdemeanor bill and the other, the nonpartisan election of judges bill

Letters and notes to Marjory Stoneman Douglas are mostly from William C. Sturtevant, Curator of the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution. Contains research notes on Britton Hammon and plans to reprint Hammon's narrative, "Notes on The Uncommon sufferings of a Negro man in Florida and Cuba, 1747-1760. Also included is a hand written manuscript by Douglas for an article entitled, "Green," that was published in the Village Post.

Two letters to Dr. Tebeau, one concerning an attempt to persuade Mrs. Stranahan to write her memoirs.

Letters from Miami Herald readers describe the impact of World War II on their lives

Letter offers a position to Mr. and Mrs. Ve[i]hlen as cook and houseman in the Tuttle home. On the same paper there is a note in Swedish signed Ivan. A typed transcript is available for both, in English