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- 1926-1929 (Creation)
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2 v.
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Marcella Seiden, a recent arrival to Florida, enrolled in the new University of Miami for their opening 1926-1927 term. She, Gertrude Huebsch (her cousin), and Rose Shayne (future sister in law), also UM students, embarked on a motor tour in the summer of 1929, driving to Pensacola, New Orleans, Houston; on to the western national parks and San Francisco; down to Juarez, Mexico, and by ship to Havana, Cuba.
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[i]Brochures, photoprints, postcards, clippings, greeting and invitation cards, menus, maps and other paper memorabilia record the activities of a young woman as a member of the first University of Miami freshman class, and in an adventurous 1929 motor trip with two sorority sisters across the United States, with side trips to Mexico and Cuba. Includes University of Miami student rules, a color booklet of Havana (ca. 1915), a New Year's Eve menu for the McAllister Hotel in Miami, and an autograph book containing handwritten messages from fellow students and family members.[/i]
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1987-012