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HMA0412 · Collectie · circa 1929

Photographic prints with corresponding negatives of one and two-story single and multiple family residential buildings in Dade County. The buildings are for the most part small-scale examples of Mediterranean revival, mission revival, bungalow, and vernacular architectural styles. The largest grouping falls into the mission revival category, with some examples combining mission revival, pueblo, and Moorish detailing. Among the vernacular structures, there are both frame and masonry examples.

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HMA0238 · Collectie · 1975-1985

Research materials and reproductions of maps pertaining to the historical geography of Biscayne Bay and adjacent parts of Dade County. Collection includes photocopies of articles from many sources, 1513-1985.

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Pioneer Voices - 1969-1972
1973-016 · Collectie · 1969-1972

Reminiscences, mainly of 1896-1926, of pioneer life, the 1920s boom, and the 1926 hurricane. Junior League members and journalist Nixon Smiley interviewed people who lived in Dade County prior to the 1926 hurricane.

Narrators are: Adam G. Adams, Maude Richards Black, Jewel H. Blanton, Janet Watson Carson, Patty Munroe Catlow, C.W. Pete Chase, Charles Franklin Cushman, Dorothy Dean Davidson, James Donn, Hoyt Fraser, John J. Fritz and Carolina Fritz Collins, S.M. Greene, Mrs. Maurice R. Harrison, Frederick M. Hudson, J. Newton Lummus, Alice MacVicar, John Pickett Miles, Stanley Mott, Louisa Oxar, Russell Pancoast, Mrs. C. Boyton Reese, Jack Sewell, Henry Overstreet Shaw, William and Jane Sutcliffe, Cecil Van Landingham, Peter Van Vox, Mrs. Sidney Weintraub, Jessie Weiss, Rose Weiss, and Helen Budge Wright.

Interviewers include Arva Moore Parks and Nixon Smiley.

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HMA0387 · Collectie · 1947-1960

Snapshots and photographic prints of canals and flooding (from rain storms and hurricanes) throughout Dade County. Ground and aerial views include bridges, dredging, construction, locks, levees, etc. One album contains views taken after Hurricane Donna in 1960.

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HMA0359 · Collectie · circa 1970-circa 1985

Slides and mostly black and white negatives pertaining to United Way of Dade County and its charitable projects for children and elderly residents of the community. Also includes images of members, social events, local businesses,and Miami vistas. Some issues of the organization's magazine "Focal Point" are included.

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Interama records - 1952-1975
HMA0360 · Collectie · 1952-1975 (predominant: (bulk 1967-1968))

Records include press clippings, feasibility studies and appraisals, news releases, brochures for potential investors, press kits, site plans and materials pertaining to the various theme areas envisioned for the project.

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HMA0066 · Collectie · 1935-1942

The WPA Collection was assembled through individual gifts and include the;

Federal Writers' Project transcripts : Individual papers written by several authors on a variety of South Florida topics for the Federal Writers' Project.  Includes articles by Alfred Coe pertaining to the sale of poison fish in Miami and architecture. Three articles: Architecture of the Miami area, Architectural development in the Miami area, Miami city guide. Articles were based in part on interviews with noted Miami architects Phineas Paist and Richard Kiehnel.

Legend of Black Caesar and Gasparilla [expanded paper by Natalie Newell]

William Wendt Papers : Mostly pertain to his employment with the City of Miami's Works Progress Administration Bureau (WPA), a New Deal program. Contains correspondence, memos, notices, specifications and other documents pertaining to projects. Of note is a copy of the Annual Report on City – Sponsored WPA and National Youth Administration (NYA) Projects for 1939-40. A set of captioned photographs show the following WPA projects underway: Miami International (Master) Airport, Shenandoah Park, Commercial Riverside Park, Little River Park, Morningside Park, Sewing Project, Housekeeping Aide Project, Handicraft Project, Toy Project, Commodity Warehouse, Gardening and Canning Project, street rebuilding and Federal Music Project. NYA projects include Bryan Park, the Miami Public Welfare Department, sail making, seaplane float construction, public service project, recreational leadership project and recreational leadership – Miami Negro Section.

The Wendt Papers also includes a blueprint for a proposed fountain for Bayfront Park and a property record from the City of Miami with construction specifications for a bungalow in East Shenandoah.

Federal Music Project (FMP) : Photographs of theatre and musical productions produced by the Federal Music Project (FMP) of the Works Progress Administration. The bulk of the photographs were shot in Miami, and a few from elsewhere in Florida. Of interest are those of the musicians who performed at the dedication of the 1935 Hurricane monument on Islamorada.  Included are two folders holding sheet music, programs and ephemera from around Florida between 1916 and 1926 that may have been used as reference material.

HMA0334 · Collectie · 1984-1986

Photographs of arches in the built environment of Miami-Dade County. Photos were included in a competition organized by the Miami-Dade Public Library. Buildings include Vizcaya, Gusman Center, Spanish Monastery and the Hialeah Water Treatment Plant. Also includes a steel arch from a never built industrial park at Tamiami Trail and SW 172nd Avenue.

HMA0213 · Collectie · 1909-1973

Records document the community projects and social activities of the Everglades Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution in the Miami area.

Two journals and some loose papers records the activities of the group including the charter, and lists of  members, officers and committees. Although minutes are not included, important motions that were tabled are noted, 1915-1932,

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HMA0239 · Collectie · 1967-2007

Posters, slides, photographs, print materials, negatives, newspaper clippings and a transparency pertain to Frank Zagarino's career in the fields of advertising photojournalism and modeling and to his avocation as a water sports enthusiast. Includes a set of negatives and contact prints that were shot of the homeless in downtown Miami for a feature film

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HMA0103 · Collectie · circa 1960-1997

Correspondence and documents pertain to ecological and environmental concerns for the mangrove swamp, canal, and surrounding area on the Hector property situated on Biscayne Bay at St. Gaudens Road in Coconut Grove. Supporting documents include land appraisals, land purchase contracts, permits, maps and designs. A set of photographic prints show damage to the property from Hurricane Andrew.

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HMA0390 · Collectie · 1950s-1980s

Scrapbooks and folders contain newspaper clippings, correspondence, campaign materials and photographic prints pertaining to Whitworth's involvement in public life and his social activities. Some government publications and newsletters from various county and state organizations are also included.

 

Biographical Note: Miami-Dade County as a Hialeah Councilman, Dade County Commissioner, State Representative in the Florida House of Representatives and elected circuit court judge. As commissioner, Whitworth secured federal funds to reimburse the county for medical aid given to Cuban refugees at Jackson Memorial Hospital. During his term as State Representative he was instrumental in the successful efforts to reform the state's judicial system and in the 1971 session, he sponsored, among others, two major bills that were signed into law. One was the marijuana felony-misdemeanor bill and the other, the nonpartisan election of judges bill

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HMA0233 · Collectie · 1988-1991

Items pertaining to the commissioning and decommissioning of the submarine.

The collection includes correspondence, reports, research findings, newspaper clippings, administrative documents, photographs, video recording, copies of speeches, a commemorative photo album and other ephemera.

Materials in Box 1 relate to the commissioning of the submarine at Groton, Connecticut in 1991 and those in Box 2 relate to its decommissioning at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine in 2014.

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