The Miami Street Culture Project was an initiative to document and present cultural traditions practiced in the streets of Miami. HistoryMiami’s South Florida Folklife Center conducted fieldwork to identify prominent artistic, communal, recreational, and occupational traditions practiced within Miami’s neighborhoods and produced an exhibition to share these traditions with the larger community. In addition to field research and an exhibition, the project includes an artifact collection, a printed publication, and cultural programming. The purpose of the project was to research and highlight street traditions that give the city its unique character and identity.

Letters and notes to Marjory Stoneman Douglas are mostly from William C. Sturtevant, Curator of the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution. Contains research notes on Britton Hammon and plans to reprint Hammon's narrative, "Notes on The Uncommon sufferings of a Negro man in Florida and Cuba, 1747-1760. Also included is a hand written manuscript by Douglas for an article entitled, "Green," that was published in the Village Post.

Photogravures from Sunday magazine newspaper supplements show homes on Miami and Miami Beach, beach scenes, the Biltmore Hotel, etc. A few pertain to Hollywood and the Florida Keys