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The collection gathers ephemera that documents events, places, people and topical issues related to the area outside of the South Florida region.

For South Florida cities and regions, see the South Florida and Caribbean Ephemera Collection.

The collection, assembled through various gifts and purchases, contains materials pertaining to the construction of the railroad along the east coast of Florida from Jacksonville to Key West. The bulk consists of some company personnel and construction records along with papers generated by individuals connected with the project.

Scrapbooks of minutes, reports, correspondence, programs, newspaper clippings and other memorabilia pertaining to the activities of the organization

Scrapbooks and loose scrapbook leaves of clippings, photographs, programs, and other memorabilia relating to the meetings and charitable works of the members of the Flamingo Club. Also includes minutes and roll calls for meetings held from 1948 through1955 and September 1967 through February 1997 on loose leaf paper.

Digitized files of church records include; minutes, financial documents, newsletters, sermons, history, bulletins, biographies of members and other business pertaining to the administration of the church. Also includes three oral history videos of members.

Magazines, letters, photocopies, postcards, photographs (prints), a book and other memorabilia document the activities of two pioneer families who played a major role in the Jewish communities of Key West and Miami. Includes an unsigned typescript letter from Theodore Roosevelt, several photographs of turn of the century stores in Key West and Miami, material on the congregations of Rodeph Sholom in Key West and Beth David in Miami (first called B'Nai Zion), and photographs of Cuban leaders of the late 1800s, including Jose Marti.

Includes correspondence, personal and employment records, real estate records pertaining to family properties and school memorabilia. Of note is a copy of the booket "The story of Miami Shipbuilding Corporation". Albums, individual photographs and postcards document the families homes in Hialeah and Miami, and vacations and scenes around Florida, Cuba and the Caribbean, social and school events and Vizcaya during the construction phase. One album chronicles the building and launching of the boat "Miss Jean" at the Miami Shipbuilding Corporation boatyard.

Diary is a lively and detailed account of a young girl's family and social life in early Miami. Scrapbooks are unarranged: one holds pictures clipped from magazines and some photographic prints; the other has loose material including poetry by Fannie Clemons and typed transcripts of letters with genealogical information on the Buswell and related families.

Zines created as part of workshops organized by EXILE Books during their residency at HistoryMiami Museum from February to May 2016. The workshops were held at the museum and other locations in Miami-Dade County. Teaching artists researched and selected source materials from the museum's archives for the workshops. These included:

March 9, 2016: The Little Haiti Zine Workshop with Akete Chevers & Edny Jean Joseph, Little Haiti Cultural Complex

March 30, 2016: Pioneer Zine Workshop, Coconut Grove Woman's Club

April 3, 2016: Feminist Pizza Party 2.0, HistoryMiami Museum

April 22, 2016: 8 Ball Zine Workshop with Nina Hartman, HistoryMiami Museum

April 29, 2016: 8 Ball Zine Workshop with Nikki Greene and Jo Rosenthal, HistoryMiami Museum

April 30, 2016: An Archive Zine Fair Workshop with Adler Guerrier, HistoryMiami Museum

June 30, 2016: Cooking With Archives: An Evening of Tropical Floridian Cookery, The Standard Spa

The collection also includes an oversize silk screen test print Lemon City by Sandra March and Brochures and card from Tropical Riso (Re) Production of the Tropics.

Records document the community projects and social activities of the Everglades Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution in the Miami area.

Two journals and some loose papers records the activities of the group including the charter, and lists of  members, officers and committees. Although minutes are not included, important motions that were tabled are noted, 1915-1932,

Most of the images were taken in the Miami-Dade County area, Jamaica and Haiti.

Research, including photographic prints and negatives, on Dade County and South Florida, particularly: Miami River, Dade County Schools, South Florida archaeology, Tropical Audubon Society, Arch Creek and local designation reports and National Register nominations.

Arch Creek papers Include applications to the National Register of Historic Places Inventory; for a Dade County Historic Site designation; and for a state archaeological site listing. Also includes photocopies of reports by Robert Carr and Dan D. Laxson. A substantial though unsorted collection of editorials, news articles and other writings document several attempts to save the property for public use; the establishment of a park and museum, and efforts to restore the area's native vegetation.

Working files of a husband and wife team of professional writers. Includes typescripts of two books: Osceola changes, and A Woman set apart; typescripts of articles and often the magazine issues in which the articles appeared; news clippings and other background research materials.  Most material is about Florida, especially Dade County; other areas include the Bahamas and the Caribbean. Subjects with strong coverage include native American groups in Florida, treasure hunting, and well known local individuals

The papers consist of correspondence, memos, reports, photographic prints, magazines and newspaper clippings, and relate primarily to Mrs. Virrick's extensive involvement in housing and urban issues in Coconut Grove and Miami-Dade County, and of her interest on a national level. Includes material on the founding and evolution of the Coconut Grove Citizens for Slum Clearance and the Citizens Advisory Committee and other boards on which she served.

Mrs. Virrick corresponded extensively with government officials and other influential people. Correspondents include Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Claude Pepper, Lawton Chiles, Rubin Askew, Dante Fascell, and Maurice Ferre.

The magazines and newspaper clippings were originally interfiled with the papers, but have been boxed separately for conservation purposes.

In 2015, Dr. Raymond Mohl donated an additional 14 boxes of documents to the collection.  The bulk of the documents are part of Elizabeth Virrick’s original papers and cover the same topics and years as the original donation. The rest are copies of newspaper clippings and articles from the same time period that Dr. Mohl added and annotated.  Dr. Raymond Mohl, a leading urban historian, was given access to the papers by Mrs. Virrick for his research on housing for African Americans in postwar Miami. This research was the basis for several articles and books on civil rights, housing and race relations in Miami, including, Elizabeth Virrick and the "concrete monsters”: housing reform in postwar Miami (Tequesta, no. 61, 2001).

The 2015 accural is housed in boxes 15 to 29. Box 29 holds materials that Dr. Mohl continued to collect up to 2001. It includes several drafts of Elizabeth Virrick and the "concrete monsters" : housing reform in postwar Miami for various publications, newspaper clippings on housing issues, a student paper on Virrick, notes, correspondence and annotated articles.

Annual reports, News@11 (the official publication for judges and employees) and Evolving Justice (commemorative magazine highlighting the Circuit's 100 anniversary). Also include 2 directories of expert witnesses and consultants for the S. E. United States.