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HMA0111 · Collection · 1933-1965 (predominant: 1933)

Clippings from Miami area newspapers, telegrams, invitation to Roosevelt's inauguration, resolutions of sympathy from the City of Miami and from the State of New Mexico, correspondence, especially from the Odd Fellows, are all related to the attempted assassination of President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt by Giuseppi Zangara in Bayfront Park, Miami. Also included is the May 1933 issue of Startling Detective Adventures, containing an article entitled I Kill all Presidents [a quote from Zangara].

Materials were collected by Russell Caldwell, one of the five persons injured when Zangara fired five shots into the crowd listening to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Bayfront Park in downtown Miami.

Caldwell, Russell
HMA0218 · Collection · 1931-1962

Correspondence, clippings, scrapbooks and photographs covering the Southerlands' activities. The bulk of the materials pertain to the International Tropical Flower Show and document Mrs. Southerland's extensive travel throughout Latin American and the Caribbean to promote and procure exhibits for the show. Mr. Southerland's papers cover his work on behalf of the South Florida Crippled Children's Hospital.  Information on Kotaro Suto who served as Carl Fisher's gardener on Miami Beach is also included

Southerland, J. Julian
HMA0034 · Collection · 1924-1976 (predominant: 1925- circa 1940)

Papers, photographs, newspaper clippings and ephemera document the Hubbell family. The bulk of the material pertain to H. Willard Hubbell and his professional and personal pursuits. A few folders holds information on his father, American artist Henry Salem Hubbell.

Of note is a scrapbook with prints and newspaper clippings of the construction of the Casa Casuarina Apartments, the Miami Beach homes of Henry Salem Hubbell and the Coconut Grove community of Ye Little Wood. Also includes photographs of a trip to Jamaica and Haiti taken by Hubbell and his wife, Lydia. Images from Haiti show vernacular architecture, voodoo ceremonies and group shots with Faustin Wirkus (a United States Marine Corps officer, reputedly crowned Faustin II, King of La Gonave, an island off the coast of Haiti).

A photo album documents a trip to a sugar plantation in Moore Haven that was using the newly invented Luce Sugar Cane Harvester. Other images show cane cultivation at nearby La Belle and Canal Point. A trip to Cuba shows a harvester being assembled, views of sugar cane harvesting, social life on the plantation and views of the environs.

Several folders of loose images show the wedding of Rosemary Hubbell and Leonard Wirkus, Hubbell homes in Dade County, construction of the family home in Hammocks Lake, other dwellings under construction for clients and productions staged by the Civic Theater of Greater Miami.

Henry Salem Hubbell, well known portrait painter, settled in Miami Beach in 1924; was a founding board member of the University of Miami. His son, H. Willard Hubbell, was a produce and fruit farmer (Stambaugh-Hubbell Co., Pelican Farms) who developed greenhouses for papayas and other tropical fruit. He was also a residential contractor who built the Kampong and completed building Marjory Stoneman Douglas' Coconut Grove home after the 1926 hurricane; and taught at a business academy and at the University of Miami. Casa Casuarina, renamed Amsterdam Palace, became the designer, Gianni Versace's home during the 1990s.

Hubbell, H. Willard
HMA0165 · Collection · 1902-1941 (predominant: (bulk 1917-1938))

Clippings, correspondence, brochures, typescripts, invitations and other memorabilia trace the career of Lieutenant Colonel Earl Hoag and with it much early history of American aviation. Includes Miami High School student yearbook (Miahi 1914); a wealth of aviation clippings for 1917-1921; with much information on the 1919 transcontinental air race during which 10 out of 39 pilots were killed.

Hoag, Earl S., 1895-1968
HMA0088 · Collection · 1921-1955

Concert programs, newsclippings, correspondence, magazine articles, cartoons, photographic prints, and newsletters trace the activities of the Miami Conservatory from its beginning in 1921 until the mid-1950s. Material also covers a wide range of musical events, organizations and individuals in South Florida for those years. There is also much information on the early years of the University of Miami, on the Aeolian Chorus (women's voices), and on the Musicians Club of America, which aimed to provide retirement facilities for musicians

Miami Conservatory of Music (Miami, Fla.)
1986-068 · Collection · 1937-1947

Most of this collection pertains to Miami Edison Senior High School. Other schools include Highland Park and Shadowlawn Elementary schools, and Robert E. Lee Junior High

Baker, George G
HMA0073 · Collection · 1898-1924

Field notes from land surveys conducted primarily in Dade County. Properties surveyed include: Richmond property at Cutler (i.e., Charles Deering Estate); Vizcaya; Cape Florida; Charles Deering estate at Buena Vista; prairie lands of northeast Dade County; Montrey Corp. subdivision; Carl Fisher and Hugh Matheson homes; Lawrence Estate (Miami River); Key Largo Club; Halcyon Hotel; Seybold Arcade; etc

Biscayne Engineering Company
08/ · Collection · 1925-1926

Newspaper clippings and notes pertain to real estate and banking matters at the height of the Florida land boom. Collection also includes letters of recommendation for M.L. Sumner

Sumner, M. L
HMA0061 · Collection · 1915-1956 (predominant: 1915-1930s)

Coconut Grove Audubon Society correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings and ephemera pertaining to birds and nature.

Minute book of the Miami Audubon Society.

The Audubon Society in South Florida, 1905-1947, by Mrs. Hanson Brock (typescript).

Tropical Audubon Society
03/ · Collection · 1914-1931

Record books are missing many pages; remaining information pertains to Miami Beach sales figures, use of electricity, water and so on for varying years. Papers include a proposal addressed to the Miami Beach City Commission, for improvements to be made in 1926, two maps showing these proposed sewers, paving and water mains; and a report from the Miami Beach City Auditor for August 1931

Floyd, C. B