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Photographs pertaining to Miami-Dade area public primary and secondary schools, and their students, teachers, and school administrators. Images showing a number of school-related activities, including study halls, physical education classes, dance and music recitals, and theatrical performances. Includes photographs of school grounds and structures, in particular, that of the Dade County Agricultural Schools. Also includes images of  Homestead Senior High School, Southwest Miami High, and Santa Clara elementary school, among others.

The bulk of the collection consists of colored slides organized topically. A set of black and white negatives with some contact prints show views of the county and County Managers and officials. A folder of color photographs showing some County Commissioners and Managers is housed alongside slides in box 2. Images include: Cuban businesses, Sunny Isles, Goombay Festival, the nuclear power plant at Turkey Point, Christo's Surrounded Islands, Little Haiti, Miami Free Trade Zone, the Miccosukee Indian Festival and rodeos.

This collection consists of almost all of the Shayne novels, often in successive editions with varying cover art, as well as a long run of the Shayne magazine from the 1950s to the 1980s.  The collection could be important to researchers because of the long, forty-year span of publication and the ways in which the novels and the magazine reflected changing times in Miami and South Florida.

Advertising samples for Miami area businesses created by Mirror Poster Printing. Posters, car cards, decals, information signs, window cards, etc. Firms include: August Bros., Belcher Oil Company, Holsum Bakery, Hollywood Kennel Club, Hotel Algiers, Love 94 FM, McArthur Dairy, Metropolitan Dade County, City of Miami Beach, Miami News, Miami Transfer Co., Miracle Mile (City of Coral Gables), Model City, National Airlines, Pan Am, Ranch House [restaurant], Seminole Transport Lines, City of South Miami, Tropical Park, WAIA, WQAM, and Welt/Safe-Lock.

Scrapbook contains testimonal letters from satisfied clients, product samples, newspaper clippings and photographs. A separate set of photographs includes images of Spiegel's art work and the company's office and employees at work. Also includes a potato chip bag and images of the delivery truck for Dee-Licious Products, the potato chips processing business that Spiegel started soon after his arrival in Miami in 1945.

Yearbooks, student register, clippings, prints and other memorabilia follow the history of a long time Miami private school. Includes copies of The Frond (yearbook) from 1929-1957 (missing 1943). Card file trays with 4X6" cards list students from 1916 on; information includes enrollment dates, addresses, and occasionally family information, colleges attended, marriages and children. Two of the scrapbooks have clippings about school or graduates' activities: others have photographic prints, not usually dated or labelled; one green scrapbook has dated (1957-1961) photoprints, and appears to show the school after it moved from Miami to Palm City.

Album of photographs of former students, as children and adults, photographs of their families and letters from them to Miss Harris,1952-1954.

Four albums with photographs of students and Miss Harris, 1938-19--

Miss Harris' School scrapbook of graduates,1937-1959 (bulk 1945-1955). Mostly newspaper clippings from newspaper society pages documenting engagements, weddings and social activities of graduates of Miss Harris' School. A few clippings pertain to the history of the school itself. Also includes some photographic prints and invitations.

Surveys of portions of Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties for the  Model Land Company, The Perrine Grant Land Company and the Boston & Florida Atlantic Coast Company. Included are Arch Creek, Homestead and Perrine. The surveys were undertaken by the Biscayne Engineering Company and the Everglades Engineering Company.

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

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."

Photographs collected from various sources for an exhibition in Wainwright Park (Miami, Fla.). Views include landscapes, native plants, insects, and animals that can be seen in Wainwright Park, although the pictures were shot in many South Florida locations. Photographers include City of Miami naturalist Ralph Beaudry.

Some copies of 19th century photographs by Ralph Munroe are included.

Includes color slides, 4x5 transparencies, laserprints, and black-and-white photographic prints.

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.

New World School of the Arts College's students participated in Documenting the Moving Landscape workshop. Led by Kayla Delacerda (ArtCenter/South Florida and BHQF Fellow), this photography and history workshop captures Miami's urban landscape and describes a cultural identity outside of the most visible and circulated images of South Florida.

Students participated in four walks:

Downtown and Overtown, 2018 March 8

Little Havana and Spring Garden, 2018 March 15

Brickell, 2018 March 22

North River Drive, 2018 April 5

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.

Clippings of Nixon Smileys' articles and columns on Florida for the Miami Herald. Topics include: gardening and farming; social life and customs; history; environmental conditions such as beach erosion and hurricanes; insurance executive John D. McArthur and the Davis Brothers of  Winn-Dixie Stores. Some correspondence, drafts of articles, photographs and negatives.

Research materials, newspaper clippings, typescripts, notes and brochures and material on topics of South Florida interest.