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HMF9025 · Collection · 2010-2012

HistoryMiami’s South Florida Folklife Center (SFFC) carried out the Florida Jai-Alai Project, a fieldwork project aimed at identifying and documenting the state's leading practitioners of the Basque ballgame's traditions. Research was conducted in Orlando, Fort Pierce, Hamilton County, Gainesville, Dania Beach, Quincy, Ocala, St. Petersburg, West Palm Beach, and Miami. The project began in June 2010 and concluded in December 2012. This project was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Michael Knoll created the project and was the lead researcher. Robert L. Stone was the photographer and conducted fieldwork in North and Central Florida. The Florida Folklife Program also assisted with archival research.

Access Notes: This collection consists of born digital materials. Please contact staff ahead of your visit to access these materials.

Audio:

Files include MP3 recordings, interview logs, and transcripts of interviews with Christophe Forestier, Benjamin Bueno, David Dodd, Juan Ramon Arrasate, Kathleen Jones, Manuel Ruiz, Martin Fleischman, Richard Berenson, Stuart Neiman, Juan Jose Carroquino, Clemente Garcia, Jesus Pradera, Wagimen Soemanto, Carlos Pita, Glen Richards, Charles David Brower, Juan Leon, Raphael Ferragut, Santiago Echaniz, Francisco Elorriaga, Roger Coscarat, Dale Popp, Ivan Martinez, Luis Gardner, Carlos Campos, and Paco Gonzalez.

Images:

Files include JPEG and CR2 images taken at frontons in Orlando, Fort Pierce, Hamilton County, Quincy, St. Petersburg, Ocala, Dania Beach, Miami, and West Palm Beach. Photographs by Robert L. Stone.

Fieldwork Documents:

Files include notes for fieldwork conducted in Hamilton County and Orlando.

Grant Documents:

Files include documents submitted for the National Endowment for the Arts grant application and reporting documents.

HMF9017 · Collection · 1998-2000

This series consists of documents generated by the “Florida Folklife: Traditional Arts from the Panhandle to the Keys” project, which included extensive fieldwork and culminated in an exhibition on display at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida (now HistoryMiami Museum) between September 18, 1988 and January 3, 1999. The exhibition subsequently traveled to four other museums in Florida throughout 1999 and 2000: the Orange County Historical Society (Orlando); the Museum of Florida History (Tallahassee); Museum of Science and History (Jacksonville); and the Tampa Bay History Center (Tampa). The project also produced a 104-page book—Florida Folklife: Traditional Arts in Contemporary Communities, edited by Stephen Stuempfle—which is included in the series. The book includes essays by Stuempfle and Tina Bucuvalas, then presents brief profiles (including photographs) of 84 artists whose respective traditions are organized into four categories: Maritime, Marsh, and Ranching Traditions; Domestic and Decorative Traditions; Ritual and Festive Traditions; and Musical Traditions. Artist profiles—researched and written by more than a dozen fieldworkers—include: Nick Toth (Diving Helmets), Billy Davis (Spurs), Ethel Santiago (Sweetgrass Baskets), Manuel Vega (Bridcages and Kites), Honey Perlman (Ketubot), Bahamas Junkanoo Revue (Junkanoo Costumes), and Romeo Ragbir (Tassa Drums). Materials include: a copy of Florida Folklife; photographic 35mm slides; and audiocassette tape recordings of interviews, musical performances, a radio program promoting the exhibition, and audio amplified in the exhibition.

Additional digital formats of audio and image files available: Records were digitized 2015 – 2016. Users must contact staff ahead of visit for access.

HMF9003 · Collection · 1986 and 1990

This series documents Miami-Dade artists’ contributions to the 1986 and 1990 celebrations of the Florida Folk Festival. The materials consist primarily of audio cassette tape recordings of demonstrations and presentations by Miami-Dade artists at the festival. The Florida Folk Festival was first celebrated in 1953 under the sponsorship of the Florida Folk Festival Association near White Springs. Between 1976 and 1995, the State of Florida’s Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs and Museum of Florida History coordinated the Festival. During the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival in 1986, a dedicated area was designated for Miami-Dade Folklife; this was the first time Dade County artists were featured at the Festival in a significant way. Featured artists were discovered during fieldwork for the 1985 Miami-Dade Folklife Survey conducted by Lauri Sommers, Tina Bucuvalas, and Nancy Nusz (HMF9002) and featured in the first annual Traditions Festival in Miami two months earlier (HMF9004). Since the festival’s 50th anniversary celebration in 2002, the Florida Park Service assumed full responsibility for coordinating and producing the Festival. Most of the items in this series are copies of originals held in the State Archives of Florida in Tallahassee, many of which have been digitized and made available through the Florida Memory Project (http://www.floridamemory.com/).

HMF9016 · Collection · 1996-1999

This series documents a seminal field research project and exhibition on the percussion traditions practiced by Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Haitians, Trinidadians and Bahamians living in Miami. Traditions documented include Bahamian Junkanoo, Trinadadian Steel Pan and Tassa, Haitian Vodou Music, Indo-Caribbean Dholak ensembles, Jamaican Nyabingi, Puerto Rican Bomba and Plena, and Cuban Rumba and Batá. In the second half of the 20th century, Miami was transformed from a predominantly tourist-oriented southern city into an international metropolis in which more than one-third of the population is of Caribbean descent. One expression of this transformation was the proliferation of nightclubs and radio stations that feature Caribbean popular music styles, such as Salsa, Merengue, Reggae, Soca and Konpa. But Miami’s Caribbean musical heritage extended far beyond well-known, popular styles. In more secluded settings and at special festive occasions in Caribbean neighborhoods, the sounds of an immense variety of drums and other percussion instruments constituted complex musical languages which, though often immediately appealing to outsiders, require years to fully learn and understand. In many cases, these musical languages are interrelated with systems of religious or philosophical knowledge. Researchers Steve Stuempfle, Joanne Hyppolite, Alberto de la Reguera, and Dawn Batson spent approximately one year conducting fieldwork beginning in March 1996. Partial funding came from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Florida Department of State, Division of Historical Resources. The Historical Museum of Southern Florida (now HistoryMiami Museum) exhibition of the project was on display May 21-October 26, 1997 and accompanied by educational programming, several publications, demonstrations in the museum, seminars and performances at the Museum and North Miami Beach Performing Arts Theater, and a compact disc (CD) recording. Materials include: documents related to project planning and grants, including field work notes, applications, letters of support, reports, memoranda, inventories, budgets, scripts, exhibition labels, promotional materials, and ephemera; recording logs and permission forms; copies of the CD; press clippings; 35mm photographic slides; audiocassette tape recordings of interviews (in English, Spanish, and Kreyol) and musical performances with attendant notes; and videocassette tape recordings of instrument-making and both public and private ritual performances.

Additional digital formats of audio and image files available: Records were digitized 2015 – 2016. Users must contact staff ahead of visit for access.

HMF9021 · Collection · 2000-2004

This series documents a proposed research project on calypso music conducted by Stephen Stuempfle, then Director of the Historical Museum of Southern Florida (now HistoryMiami Museum). The project, based on years of research by Stuempfle, was intended to offer the first holistic view of calypso’s international history through an online exhibition, a traveling museum exhibition, and public conferences. Highlights include rare musical recordings, as well as interviews and consultation meeting with calypso icon Ray Funk. Materials include: research documents and grant proposal to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH); audiocassette tape recordings of commercial and broadcast musical performances (several contributed by Kenneth Bilby) and documentary features; audio compact discs (CDs) of musical performances and interviews; and videocassette tape recordings of musical performances, interviews, and television broadcasts.

Additional digital formats of audio files available: Records were digitized 2015 – 2016. Users must contact staff ahead of visit for access.

HMF9018 · Collection · 1999-2001

This series documents a field research project and exhibition on Afro-Cuban Orisha Arts in Miami at the turn of the millennium. Since the 1960s, Miami has been at the crossroads of the Americas and emerged as one of the major centers of the Afro-Cuban Orisha religion—also known as Regla de Ocha, Yoruba religion, or Santería—and its array of traditional arts. A local religious community of over 100,000 practitioners is served by numerous specialists who produce beadwork, garments, cloth panels, metalwork, woodcarvings, altars, musical instruments, paintings, and other art forms. These works of art are expressions of spiritual devotion, inspired by the many orishas (deities) of the religion’s pantheon, such as Elegbá, Ogún, Shangó, Obatalá, Yemojá, and Oshún. Though Orisha artists are highly respected within the religious community, their work is not well known or understood by the wider public, and the exhibition explored their creativity in the context of the aesthetics and symbolism of their tradition.

On display at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida (now HistoryMiami) February 23-June 23, 2001, the exhibition was curated by Museum Director Stephen Stuempfle and co-curated by Miguel “Willie” Ramos, Ezequiel Torres, and Nelson Mendoza. Additionally, a website was created for the exhibition (http://historymiamiarchives.org/online-exhibits/orisha/orisha_start.htm). The project received major funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and additional support was received from the Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs Council and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners.

Materials include: field notes, grant applications and reports, exhibit-related permissions and documents; ephemera; photographic prints, contact sheets, 35mm slides, negatives, and logs; audiocassette tape recordings of lectures, roundtable discussions, interviews, musical performances, and audio components of the exhibition; digital images on a Zip 100 disc; and VHS and Hi8 MP video tapes, including video components of the exhibition.

Additional digital formats of audio, video, and image files available: Records were digitized 2015 – 2016. Users must contact staff ahead of visit for access.

HMF9015 · Collection · 1992-1993

This series contains documents generated by a project on the folklife activities of Africans and African descendants living in Miami. The project culminated in a book, 24-page book titled Traditional Arts of the African Diaspora: African American and Haitian Miami which was published by the Historical Museum of Southern Florida Folklife Program (now HistoryMiami Museum), edited by Tina Bucuvalas and Brent Cantrell, and includes black-and-white photographs and an essay by Joyce M. Jackson (“African American Folk Culture in Miami”). Except for this modest but well-produced book, the series lacks significant written documentation (e.g., field notes or reports). Materials include: a copy of the book Traditional Arts of the African Diaspora; 35mm photographic slides; and audiocassette tape recordings of interviews.

Additional digital formats of audio and image files available: Records were digitized 2015 – 2016. Users must contact staff ahead of visit for access.

HMA0002 · Collection

The South Florida and Caribbean Ephemera Collection gathers ephemera and news clippings that document events, places, people and issues related to South Florida and the Caribbean. It includes topical and biographical files pertaining to Miami-Dade, Broward, Collier, Monroe and Palm Beach counties in Florida and the Caribbean region.  Files include ephemera, brochures, pamphlets, clippings and related materials on individuals, neighborhoods and communities, cities and towns, buildings, agriculture, conservation and natural resources, and local history.

For other Florida cities and regions, see the Florida Ephemera Collection.

Selected topics have been separated due to volume of material collected. Please see the Archaeology, Church, Culinary, Miami International Airport Galleries, Music, Performing Arts, Real Estate Business, Schools, Sports, and Visual Arts ephemera collections for materials related to these topics.

HMA0444 · Collection · 1927-2014

Organizational records (bulk 1927-1977) include minutes, a scrapbook, yearbooks, programs and Florida Federation of Garden Clubs activities.
Of note is the Legislative Committee’s letters to Florida State Representatives supporting the preservation of coral reefs, the Coconut Grove shoreline, and Islandia as part of the National Parks System.

Shenandoah Garden Club
HMA0182 · Collection · 1914-1955 (predominant: 1920-1940)

Consists of sheet music whose subject matter pertains to Miami and South Florida. The bulk of the  collection was copyrighted between 1920 and 1940. Musical genres include popular songs, piano music, solo instrumental music, and music for band and orchestra. Selected titles include “Moon over Miami”, “Miami Beach Rumba” ,“The Magic Realm,” and “My Isle of Golden Dreams”

HMA0018 · Collection · 1960-1971

Images of Miami-Dade County buildings and street scenes, people and events. Negatives form the bulk of the collection. One box holds photographic prints and slides.

Bramson, Seth
Scrapbooks Collection
HMA0050 · Collection

An artificial collection containing bound and unbound scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, photographs, ephemera, postcards, and notes commemorating events, organizations, people, and places in Florida. Topics include tourism, real estate development, hurricanes and floods, organizations and clubs, transportation, and horticulture. Many of the scrapbooks document the social lives, interests, and activities of Miami residents.

HMA0313 · Collection · 1958-2010

Collection pertains to people, activities and court procedures in Florida's Eleventh Judicial Circuit and includes: profiles of Miami-Dade County judges, newspaper clippings, publications, fee schedules for the Dade County Bar Association, correspondence, ephemera, rules of practice and procedure guidelines, a biography of Dixie Louese Herlong Chastain and copies of documents Judge Silverman acquired for his historical studies on Miami's legal system.

Also included is a copy of the transcript of the Pacley and Kitchen case vs. the City of Hialeah. The plaintiffs sued the city, accusing it of discrimination against them and other African American employees by denying them full pension benefits.

Sliverman, Scott J.