Showing 428 results

Newspaper clippings, correspondence, newsletters and notes on Coconut Grove, Miami, and South Florida. Topics include parks, libraries, people, churches, schools, Coconut Grove centennial (1973), and Coconut Grove civic organizations.

Correspondence, clippings, and typescripts of articles and books by Griswold. Much of the material pertains to his unpublished work on Dr. Henry Perrine. Articles date primarily from the 1940s, when Griswold was freelancing in Key West.

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, genealogical material, and photocopies of 19th century letters pertain to Indian Key history, especially the estate of Jacob Housman, who owned much of the island until Indians destroyed the settlement in 1840.

A diary of a 1960 visit to Jamaica (probably by Mrs. Griswold) and typescripts on Islandia (by C.P. Idyll) and the Museum of Science.

Source material, correspondence, typescripts, and photographic prints pertain to Griswold as a writer and conservationist. Includes a letter from William C. Sturtevant about the political action leading to the establishment of Everglades National Park; correspondence relating to the Historical Association's preservation of the Housman grave marker from Indian Key; material about the 1905 murder of game warden Guy Bradley, a victim of the egret plume trade; a radio script: Going places with Griswold; and detailed outlines for a proposed South Florida handbook, to be written by Griswold and Charles Brookfield.

35mm mounted slides (primarily Ektachrome) of Caribbean, Central and South American sites. Dates, when given, are for 1958-1961.

The Opera Ephemera Collection includes playbills, season brochures, and newspaper clippings relating to opera in South Florida.

The oral history collection covers the history of Miami-Dade County from the arrival of Henry Flagler’s first train into Miami in 1896, to the late twentieth century influx of immigrants from the Caribbean, Latin American and other parts of the world.

The collection documents the lives of early African-American and white pioneers, including; Annie Coleman, Maude Black, The Stirrup sisters, Dr. Elmer Ward, John Sewell, Mrs. Sylvia Weintraub, and the Rev. Edward Graham, along with the Mt. Zion Baptist Church choir performing metered songs and early spirituals.

Mid to late twentieth century recordings include; Rev. Theodore Gibson, Dante Fascell, Sir. Lancelot Jones, Marion Manley, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Ray Goode, Merritt Steirheim and Dorothy Dean Davidson.  Also included is the museum’s extensive collection of recordings from people representing nearly 100 different ethnic and cultural groups living in South Florida.

The PACE Records consist of photographic images, newspaper clippings, publicity and marketing materials, organization papers and correspondence, and an audio recording collected from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s by Rod Glaubman and Steven Parsons, the founders of the PACE (Performing Arts for Community and Education) organization.

Photographs, contact sheets, slides and negatives capturing images of the Big Orange Festival series of concerts comprise the bulk of the collection.

An artificial collection consisting of photographs, manuals, and other materials about Pan American Airline. Collection includes photographs, operations and training manuals for the 727 Boeing aircraft, captain’s log books, menus and on-flight ephemera from various Pan American destinations.

The Pan American Collection consists of materials collected by the Pan Am Historical Foundation for a future aviation museum. This finding aid describes the photographs and paper materials housed in the HistoryMiami Museum archives. Artifacts and their inventories are kept by the objects department of the museum.

The archival materials include photographs, flight maps and records, newspaper clippings, certificates, technical reports, and corporate ephemera—and corporate and personal material collected by three Pan American pilots. The collection also contains newspaper and magazine clippings featuring Pan American; commemorative certificates; advertisements and promotional materials; scrapbooks documenting the first direct service between John F. Kennedy Airport and Berlin in 1964; menus for state dignitaries, corporate, and press flights; photographs of Juan Trippe and other officers, aircraft, and historic flights; and technical reports.

Ekstrom’s papers are a major component of the collection; they show a pilot’s lifestyle as well as the role of a pilot within the airline; they include newspaper clippings on the development of flying—and photographs, postcards, and ephemera from Latin America.

Keeler’s papers are a smaller parallel component; they include photographs of an early aircraft assembly and attempted launch over water, as well as photos of Latin American Native Americans.

Papers from pilot Dave Abrams include insurance plans, retirement plans, and union agreements.

The Pancoast family collection comprises both personal papers and business records.

Business records include account books; advertisements; contracts; correspondence; pamphlets; maps; blueprints; reports; tax returns;scrapbooks;  receipts and photographic prints. The majority of these business records relate to the growth of  land development and tourism in Miami Beach.

Personal papers include correspondence, photographs, wills and estate papers, tax returns, receipts and ephemera, with the majority of the material consisting of  letters written by, and received from, Thomas Pancoast. A portion of the correspondence, thirty-four files, was generated and received by other family members, including Irving A. Collins, John S. Collins, Lester Collins, Russell T. Pancoast, and J. Arthur Pancoast.

A separate series, which comprises two boxes, exists for the records created by Russell Pancoast. The first box of this series contains business and personal papers, while the second box houses files of historical data.

An additional box holds correspondents include Carl G. Fisher, Everest G. Sewell, Irving A. Collins and J. B. McCrary (Tamiami Trail contractor). Also included is a ledger book with the minutes of the Miami Beach Improvement Company from 1930 until its dissolution in 1951; and material on the Pancoast Hotel. The oldest document is a New Jersey land grant deed from 1777, but the bulk of the collection belongs to the 1920s.

Miami Beach Improvement Company financial statements and bonds, 1920-1922

Letters from John S. Collins to George F. Cook pertain to the building of the Collins Bridge (Bay Biscayne viaduct). Also included is a typed sheet of specification for the Bay Biscayne Viaduct. John Collins contracted with the George F. Cook Company to build a causeway connecting Miami Beach with the mainland.

One box of scrapbooks includes one each on the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce; the Bakers Haulover pier and Thomas Pancoast; general topics; and the Everglades. Newspaper clippings in the Everglades scrapbook date to 1937-1938 and relate to the creation of the national park. "Pier" has clippings on the Miami Beach fishing pier, opened in 1938 at Bakers Haulover, and a substantial collection of news reports on Thomas J. Pancoast's death and funeral in September 1941. The other two scrapbooks in this box overlap in coverage: they include activities of Pancoast family members and of the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce and other groups.

The other scrapbook box comprises clippings about Miami Beach and the Collins and Pancoast families. Two of these scrapbooks may well have been compiled at least in part by Collins; part of the second and all of the third were made after his death. A green scrapbook headed History Miami Beach has news clippings from 1923 to 1927 about a variety of local topics; there is a partial index at the front. A black scrapbook with pasted-on label: In Memory of John S. Collins also has clippings from the 1920s about Miami Beach. It ends with Collins' obituary notices. A partly filled black scrapbook has 1933-1938 clippings about Collins, Miami Beach, and members of the Pancoast family.

The bulk of the collection consist of black and white (8 x 10) photographs. They document economic activities, transportation, infrastructure, area attractions, sports, places and events. Also included are images of several county and city commissioners. Of note is a photograph of President John F. Kennedy holding a plan for the proposed Torch of Friendship monument to be erected on Biscayne Boulevard.

A very small number of the photos are stamped on the back with the date and name of the photographers.

Pencil drawing on cardboard

Files include  brochures, pamphlets, playbills, newspaper clippings and related materials on dance, music, and the theatre. Includes information on performances, venues and artists.

Correspondence, photoprints, legal documents, bills, newsclippings, and notes on family history are concerned with the linked McDonald-Reilly-Pero families; with Henry M. Flagler, for whom Joseph A. McDonald built hotels; and gives sidelights on the early history of Miami. Includes details on the building and furnishing of John B. Reilly's home at 1411 SW 11 Street, Miami (1926-1928); considerable correspondence on a proposed sugarcane plantation and sugar refinery for Miami (1911); and a number of letters from Flagler to Joseph McDonald.

Senior class report cards for Joseph H. Pero and Donald Carey Pero, from St. Theresa School, Coral Gables, ca. 1935

Correspondence, photographic prints, clippings, periodicals, and reports record Perrine family history, especially the Indian Key massacre, subsequent Perrine land grant claims, and material relating to the poems and articles of Sarah Rodgers Palmer. Also includes books from Dr. Perrine's Indian Key home and other 19th century family books, genealogical material on the Perrine and Townsend families and eight scrapbooks created by Sarah Rodgers Palmer.

Full color marketing brochures produced by various real estate companies to promote their properties during the Miami and South Florida building boom of the first decade of the twenty-first century.