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HMA0003 · Collection

The Visual Arts Ephemera Collection gathers ephemera and news clippings that document events, places, people and issues related to the visual arts in South Florida. Files include  brochures, pamphlets, newspaper clippings and related materials.

HMA0121 · Collection · 1929-1982

The collection spans Snyder’s entire career and beyond, ranging from 1929 until 1982. Architectural plans and drawings make up the bulk of the collection. A series of color renderings offer valuable glimpses at a few projects. The collection also includes a number of city, area, and subdivision maps, most focused on South Florida and Miami. A large number of photos, transparencies and photo albums, showing various residential, commercial and public projects, is concentrated on Snyder’s work of the 1950s and 1960s, but includes some valuable earlier examples. Some of Snyder’s personal papers complete the collection, including examples of his many awards and certificates, his World War II records, a bound map of Cuba, and other miscellanea.

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Snyder, Wahl John, 1910-1989
HMA0114 · Collection · 1906-1950 (predominant: 1906-1926)

Elevations, renderings, plans, and details of houses, stores, churches, schools, office buildings, hotels, club houses, and apartments. Many of the drawings are notable for their draftsmanship. Structures represented in these drawings were built in Belle Isle, Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, Ft. Lauderdale, Homestead, Key Largo, Miami, Miami Beach, Miami Shores, and Star Island.

Significant buildings designed by DeGarmo and represented in these records include: Miami City Hall (1907) Demolished. -- McAllister Hotel (1916) 10 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami. Demolished. -- Miami Beach Community Church (1921) 500 Lincoln Road. -- Coral Gables Bank and Post Office (1924) Alhambra Circle, Coral Gables. -- St. Teresa (Convent) School (with Phineas Paist, 1924) Coral Gables. -- Colonnade Building (collaborator) Coral Gables. -- Douglas Entrance (collaborator) Coral Gables.

DeGarmo, Walter C., 1876-
HMA0082 · Collection · 1862-1939 (predominant: (bulk 1900-1930))

Correspondence, personal and business records, manuscripts, postcards, advertisements and other memorabilia from the J.W. Warner family, who were Miami's first florists, establishing the Miami Floral Company in 1906. Includes records for Warner House, their home and place of business; promotional material for the Magnetic Comb Company; a first-day cover commemorating the start of air mail service to Tallahassee; diaries of George H. Griffin ("Uncle George"), and an autobiographical narrative by Lena Clarke, Mrs. Warner's sister.

Miami Floral Company bills, orders and receipts.

Warner House insurance records.

Warner family
HMA0126 · Collection · 2001

Proposals, drawings, plans and feasibility studies submitted to the City of Miami for the development of a mega marina with compatible mixed uses for Watson Island.

HMA0214 · Collection · 1919-1988 (predominant: 1952-1972)

Mostly pertains to the business and civic activities of Sidney, Claire and Albert Weintraub.

Sidney Weintraub papers, 1919-1979. Documents and some photographs from cases and transactions that he handled: the Cardozo, Flamingo and Surrey hotels; real estate transactions for Isidor Cohen and Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde; Soldier Key; a horse races gambling and book making trial; the Dade County Negro Improvement Association and photographs of Liberty City from an accident case.

Weintraub's civic interests are represented by materials pertaining to the Jewish Home for the Aged, his involvement in the campaigns to elect William Hardie as Dade County sheriff and Ernest Graham as Governor of Florida.

Personal letters to family members recount the impact of World War II on Miami and his efforts to secure a commission in the army. At the time of the Cuban revolution he was in Havana, and his letters give an account of the experience.

Claire Weintraub papers,1952-1972. Topical folders, scrapbooks and some photographs record Claire Weintraub's volunteer services with the following organizations; Florida Children's Commission, Easter Seal Society, March of Dimes, The Governor's Advisory Committee on Decent Literature, Dade County Health Council, Comprehensive Health Planning Council of South Florida, Dade County Citizens Safety Council and the minutes of the Medical School Committee that was charged with the initial planning for the University of Miami Medical School. Also included are materials from her involvement as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1960. The bulk of the material pertains to the Florida Children's Commission.

Albert Weintraub papers,1954-1988. Materials on Islandia, desegregation of Dade County Public Schools, aviation including the South Florida Soaring Association (club for glider pilots) and the Air Training Corps, some issues of Metro Bulletin (1960) and family photographs.

HMA0161 · Collection · approximately 1865-2006 (predominant: 1930s-2002)

Items pertaining to the business, sports and recreational activities of the Whitman family.

The collection includes correspondence, photographs, negatives, newspaper clippings, brochures, pamphlets, a guest book, a movie poster, and two scrapbooks.

Audio-visual materials in the collection comprise compact discs/DVDs holding digital copies of photographs, an interview with Dudley Whitman and recordings of commentary for the Whitman Family Museum that was located at Bal Harbour Shops, as well as VHS recordings of films produced in conjunction with the Whitman Brothers Marine Photo Lab.

Topics covered by the materials include Whitman family genealogy; boating and the development of fiberglass vessels; surfing; the creation of the Whitman Family Museum; the development of Bal Harbour Shops; property development ventures in early Miami Beach; development of the underwater camera; and tropical fruit horticulture.

HMA0379 · Collection · 1920-1929

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.

Fishbaugh, William A.
HMA0405 · Collection · 1907-1912

Images show the early twentieth-century construction of the Florida Keys Overseas Railway. Contains images showing some of the 4000 workers employed by the project, including African American worker and interior views of the camps constructed to house them, including Boca Chica camp, Long Key Fishing camp, and Quarry Camp. Image shows the building of the railway infrastructure and roadbed, as well as the technology used during its construction.

HMA0095 · Collection · 1886-1992 (predominant: 1922-1966)

The bulk of papers pertain to W. L. Phillips' career, from his work at Harvard University in the early 1900s to his involvement in numerous landscaping projects through the late 1950s, with substantial portions of this data relating to the Mountain Lake Sanctuary and Royal Palm State Park.

Among the records are letters, invoices, notes, clippings, sketches, reports, planting lists, contracts, specifications, photographic prints, negatives, pamphlets, and ephemera. Documents related to professional organizations and awards are also included. A set of alphabetized index cards bears notes concerning landscape architecture, astronomy, investment information, property data, and other topics. In addition, notebooks of Harvard class notes, classified plant lists, and field notes and sketches augment the collection.

Supplementing the papers regarding professional projects are original plans and blueprints, as well as several maps. Where indicated in the files, photocopies of some plans substitute for the originals, which are located at the University of Miami library.

Also maintained in the collection are papers documenting Phillips' personal life spanning the early 1900s to the mid-1960s. Correspondence with family members and friends, school records and notebooks, an address book, birth and death records, passports, identification cards, certificates, travel brochures, clippings, and other ephemera comprise this material. Financial and property records include bank statements, correspondence, mortgage papers, investment documents, and tax information. In addition, the personal data contains a 1992 historic designation report for Phillips' North Miami residence. Two pencil drawings found among the papers depict the figure of an unknown youth and a signed portrait of William Lyman Phillips.

Phillips, William Lyman, 1885-1966
HMA0400 · Collection · 1950-1999

Collection contains postcards, photographs, ephemera, books and video recordings pertaining to South Florida aviation, in particular, cargo and passenger airlines at Miami International Airport. Includes images of domestic and international air carriers, timetables and boarding passes, training and promotional brochures, and pamphlets detailing the history of Miami International Airport. Also contains a copy of Austin J. Brown and Mark R. Wagner’s Miami Props.

Moriaty, William
HMA0357 · Collection · 1931-2004 (predominant: 1931-1970s)

The Rotary Club records include: Board of Directors minutes, issues of the Miami Beach Rote-Rays, Rotary, and Rotarys, membership information and other club business.

The real estate papers are from the M. D. Futch Real Estate office and include: photographs of properties, hotel and apartment brochures, property appraisals and maps in Miami Beach and environs, including Sunset Islands.

Rotary Club records cover the period 1940 to 2004. The M. D. Futch Real Estate office office records cover the 1930s through 1970s.

Owens, William P.
HMA0019 · Collection · 1955-1980 (predominant: 1950s-1970s)

The collection contains mostly photographs of commercial developments in Miami, Jacksonville and Orlando. A few represent other South Florida developments. Includes aerial views, interiors and exteriors of buildings during various stages of construction, renderings, and employees and personal photographs. Also includes promotional brochures, correspondence supporting the National Industrial Beautification Program, The Miss Universe Coronation Ball Program from 1965, and an Interama publicity brochure.

HMA0417 · Collection · 1887-1987 (predominant: 1960-1975)

The material in this collection concerns Ms. Williams’ involvement in the study of the archaeology, anthropology and the history of South Florida. The collection contains books, articles and periodicals dealing with these topics. Authors of articles by Williams and other noted south Florida professional and amateur archaeologists include William Sears, Daniel Laxson, John Goggin, Ripley P. Bullen, and William Verity.

The papers also include correspondence and related papers from the Broward County Archaeological Society and the Florida Anthropological Society. Material from the sites Williams worked at include notes, artifact lists, archaeological charts and field maps. In addition, there are some personal items of Ms. Williams, data from a few non-Florida sites, brochures and newspaper clippings.

The photographic prints contains both color and black and white photographs, transparencies and negatives of various south Florida archaeological sites. In addition there are a few non-Florida sites, personal pictures, and images of Seminole Indians.  Photographers unknown.

Williams, Wilma
HMA0169 · Collection · 1953-1994

The records document the activities of the Greater Miami Chapter of Women in Communications, Inc., a national professional society for women in journalism and communications.

Records include newsletters, clippings, membership directories, committee listings, guest books, bylaws, and photographs. Scrapbooks compiled from 1953 to 1992 include clippings on Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Marie Anderson, Helen Muir, Molly Turner and other prominent local members.

Women in Communications