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Minutes, annual reports, publications and periodicals. Highlights include: minutes of the Board of Directors, 1919-1967, in ten bound volumes; committee meetings, 1939-1954, in four bound volumes; newsletters primarily from the 1960s; and the Chamber's publication, Miamian, from 1958 to 1971.

Twelve scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings selected by the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce. These clippings document private and public sector growth and development in the city, and issues that affected the community during that period. The Chamber's role as a catalyst for civic improvement is also documented. Topics include: the controversy surrounding the legalization of casino gambling, tourism, the proposed north Dade jetport, Interama, the Greater Miami Foreign Free Trade Zone, the role of Afro-Americans and Cuban Americans, race relations and the Miami riot of 1980 following the acquittal of the police officers charged with the murder of Arthur McDuffie.

Hurricane file, 1926 September 22-30. Correspondence, primarily from other cities, offering sympathy and help (25 items).

Slide views of Miami-Dade County places, commerce and industry, 1980-1990s.

Photocopy of program for ceremony sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce in collaboration with E . L. Lasher of the Musa Isle Indian Village and Alligator Farm. Includes speech by Lon Worth Crow, Chamber of Commerce president, and Seminole Chief Tommy. Also includes sales pitch for Everglades muck land.

Views of Miami-Dade County neighborhoods, places and activities include Brownsville, Coral Gables, Culmer, Key Biscayne, Little Havana, Little Haiti, Miami, Miami International Airport, Overtown and the Redland District. Topical subjects include agriculture industry, commerce and industry.

Articles and advertising pieces illustrated with photographs shot by Romer. Most are newspaper clippings, tear sheets and advertisments from local, state and national publications. Depicts scenic and social images of Miami and South Florida, dwellings and communities for real estate pieces, and images for product advertising and feature stories. Clients include Burdine's (department store), and Bay Point (subdivision development) on Biscayne Boulevard.

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.

Correspondence, clippings, brochures, maps, real estate records and related papers trace the activities of George Merrick, founder of the city of Coral Gables. Most of the collection pertains to the 1930s and later years, including a substantial amount on the Dade County Planning Board.

Warranty deeds dated 1899 and 1903 for Solomon Merrick record the purchase of the original Merrick property in what would become Coral Gables and for three lots in downtown Miami.

Letter from Rev. J. D. Kuykendall congratulating Merrick on his design for Coral Gables and suggests adding a college to the plan.

Letter offering properties for sale to George Merrick, circa 1935.

Dade County County Commission appointment for George Merrick and stock certificate. 1915.

The records include approximately 170 drawings for residential, commerical and institutional projects and 30 folders of project submittals for the American Institutue of Architects Florida/Caribbean honor and design awards programs.

Series 1, drawings, includes architectural drawings for buildings in the Bahamas, Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, Homestead, Key Biscayne, Miami, Miami Beach, Miami Lakes, Miami Shores, and elsewhere.

Series 2, project submittals:  Photographs illustrate the project submittals as well as document progress on various projects. Also included are Mr. Reed's examination papers with answers from the architectural boards for the states of Georgia and Florida.

Correspondence, typed manuscripts, and other papers document life in Miami Beach during its heyday as a haven for the wealthy and well connected.

Programs, journals, magazines, newsletters and playbills for local and national productions. Also includes a wallpaper sample from the men's restroom at the Candlelight Club and a poster for a performance by the Gay Men's Chorus of South Florida.

The G. Holmes Braddock collection contains newspaper clippings, unbound scrapbooks, photographs, correspondence and ephemera from Mr. Braddock’s term as a Miami-Dade School Board member (1962-2000). Most of the material focuses on the integration of Miami schools. Items of note includes unbound scrapbooks and letters sent to Mr. Braddock both in support and disagreement of integration.

Personal papers and business records of the Frohock family. The bulk of the materials pertains to John Frohock and highlights his tenure as Dade County Sheriff and his pursuits in commercial agriculture and real estate. Also included are materials pertaining to his son, John Moran Frohock and his wife, Leone Frohock, who compiled a scrapbook complete with commentary on the social scene and daily events in Miami.

Substantial collection of clippings, mainly from South Florida newsletters, on environmental issues: the condition of the Everglades, droughts, the 1970 jetport and Turkey Point controversies, Key deer, development and preservation projects. Though it covers the activities of the Society and its president, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the bulk of the collection deals with four years of ongoing and often emotional public debate on the well-being of South Florida's ecology and economy

Articles, clippings, pamphlets on Florida subjects, as well as on the activities of William Leonard Freeland, attorney and judge, and his wife Helen Elizabeth Comstock Freeland. Includes papers on Florida history, and full newspaper coverage of the 1926 hurricane. Photographs include the Orange Grove Elementary School and family portraits

Posters, slides, photographs, print materials, negatives, newspaper clippings and a transparency pertain to Frank Zagarino's career in the fields of advertising photojournalism and modeling and to his avocation as a water sports enthusiast. Includes a set of negatives and contact prints that were shot of the homeless in downtown Miami for a feature film

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.

Photographs of Coral Gables structures and environs, mostly shot by William A. Fishbaugh, with a few shot by Manley Brower. The photographs are from two albums collected by landscape architect Frank M. Button.