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Black-and-white, large format negatives, mainly studio portraits, with some images shot on location. Includes views of adults, children, students (usually for yearbooks), weddings, debutantes, bar mitzpahs, first communions, and so on. Schools and organizations located in Coral Gables, such as Coral Gables Senior High School, predominate. Negatives shot by Pilkington Studio photographers.

Black-and-white photographs shot by Alfred Munroe, depicting places and people living around Biscayne Bay, Florida, before 1896. Views include Coconut Grove, Key Biscayne and Cutler. People include Julia Tuttle. Albumen prints on original cardboard mounts.

Mostly visual materials showing views of people, places and commercial activity in Cuba. Photographs, including cabinet cards and cartes-de-viste; ephemera, including advertising cards, tobacco labels, sports cards and postage stamps; postcards; prints; drawings; periodicals; books; maps; and personal and business correspondence.

Slides document excursions through the South Florida and a number of Caribbean islands including the American and the British Virgin Islands, the Bahamas, Barbados, St. Croix, the Bahamas, Grenada, Aruba, Martinique, Trinidad, Curacao, and Puerto Rico. Florida tourist sites include Everglades National Park, Parrot Jungle, and Disney World. Includes a handwritten list of the Caribbean attractions and places, which are numbered to correspond with some of the slides for identification.

Some of the images were shot by Ulla Amel Rothermel.

Miami law firm's accounts journal reflect day-to-day transactions during the land boom years. Entries are for: 1922 May 22-1922 December 31 (water damaged). -- 1923 January 2-1923 August 30. -- 1924 November 18-1925 March 27.

Containing press passes, newspaper clippings, and photographs of personalities and news events that McDermott covered during his career. Includes the Harry Oakes murder trial in Nassau (Bahamas), Clark Gable on Miami Beach during World War II, and Presidents Kennedy and Nixon.

The journals are filled with short notes and captions and lavishly illustrated with postcards, maps, photographs, ticket stubs, menus and other ephemera. Among the photographs are images of actors: Theda Bara, William Farnum and Evelyn Nesbit on a Fox film set in Miami in 1919.

Documents and large beeswax seal pertain to the history of a 120 acre tract of land on Abaco Island, Bahamas.

Photographer John Gillan's views of the Cape Florida Lighthouse, Biscayne Bay from the Barnacle, Barnacle boathouse, Biltmore Hotel, Miami City Cemetery, Charles Deering Estate, Spanish Monastery, Anderson's Corner, Prado Entrance, and the Dade County Courthouse from the Metro-Dade Cultural Center Plaza.

Published maps and prints of Florida, the Caribbean, the Americas and the World, collected by Robert C. Rogers.

Views of Coral Gables on negatives. Includes land marks, commercial, government and residential buildings. Of note are interior shots of the Miami Biltmore Hotel and the Coral Gables Bank.

Views include Metromover and Metrorail construction, Cultural Center at night (includes banner announcing Historical Museum opening), building demolitions, Dade County Court House and environs, parking lot, ships on the Miami River, Government Center construction, and Goodyear blimp moored at Watson Island in 1976.

Large format, black-and-white negatives, including aerial photographs, street scenes, and other views of the Miami and Miami Beach areas. The aerial views date from the 1910s-1930s, and the 1950s.

Negatives include 4x5 and 5x7 glass plate and film negatives. Contact prints have been made from many of the images.

Topical and biographical folders that were selected from files A-P of the Coral Gables Times Guide photograph morgue. The folders contain black-and-white photographic prints, accompanied by some newspaper clippings and ephemera. The folder headings were created by the newspaper's staff.

While most topics pertain to Coral Gables, other cities and communities are also represented, including Coconut Grove, Kendall, South Miami and South Dade.

Photographs of Miami-Dade County parks. Black-and-white views of county, state, national, and private, not-for-profit parks in Dade County, Florida. Includes construction of recreational facilities, festivals, sports events, camping, employee events, and hurricane damage. Includes Camp Owaissa Bauer, Crandon Park, Crandon Park Zoo, Elliott Key, Fairchild Tropical Garden, golf courses, Greynolds Park, Haulover Beach, Homestead Bayfront Park, Matheson Hammock, Museum of Science, Redland Fruit and Spice Park, swimming pools, Vizcaya, and others

This series of 35mm, 110, and 4x5 photographic prints document the work of the Dade County Parks and Recreation Department during the 1960s and 1970s. Included are images of the construction of recreational facilities (e.g., swimming pools), arts and crafts shows, festivals, sports events, camping, and employee activities.

Parks depicted include Camp Owaissa Bauer, Crandon Park, Matheson Hammock, Vizcaya, Suniland, Dade County Auditorium, Brownsville pool, Greynolds Park, Museum of Science, Palmetto Golf Course, Elliott Key Park (now Biscayne National Park), Crandon Park Zoo, Haulover Beach, Homestead Bayfront Park, Redland Fruit and Spice Park, Richmond Park, Trail Glades Shooting Range, Virginia Beach, and others.

Sports and recreation depicted include baton twirling, bowling, golf, picnics, camping, Junior Orange Bowl parade, flower shows, beauty pageants, Showmobile presentations, synchronized swimming, etc. (The Showmobile was a trailer converting into a portable stage.)

Hurricane and storm damage includes Flora (1963), Cleo (1964), Betsy (1965), and Inez (1966).