Identity elements
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Name and location of repository
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Title
Date(s)
- circa 1896-2003 (predominant: 1965-2003) (Creation)
Extent
about 10,000 photo shoots/lots/enclosures (about 150,000 items)
Name of creator
Biographical history
Name of creator
Biographical history
Commercial photographer. Matlack worked in Miami and Miami Beach between 1918 and 1942.
Name of creator
Biographical history
Name of creator
Biographical history
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
Photographs mainly of Miami-Dade County people, places and events. The vast majority of the images are negatives without corresponding photographic prints or digital images. The photographs were shot or collected by Miami Herald journalists and photojournalists.
System of arrangement
Arranged in six series, each representing a separate gift to HistoryMiami.
Conditions of access and use elements
Conditions governing access
The collection is open for research.
Physical access
The majority of the images, being negatives, may only be viewed while wearing white cotton gloves, suppled by the archives, and using a light box, also supplied by the archives.
Technical access
Conditions governing reproduction
Permission from HistoryMiami archives staff required prior to reproduction of photographs in a publication. Please contact archives staff for more information.
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Finding aids
Acquisition and appraisal elements
Custodial history
Immediate source of acquisition
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information
Accruals
The Miami Herald library, photo department and individual photographers have given HistoryMiami several series of visual materials over a number of years.
Series 1 - gift of Miami Herald Library, 1983 - control number 1983-026.
Series 2 - gift of Miami Herald Library, 1986 - control number 1986-047.
Series 3 - gift of Miami Herald photographer Battle Vaughan, 1984 - control number 1984-201
Series 4 - gift of Miami Herald photographers, 2004 - control number 2004-365
Series 5 - gift of Miami Herald photographers, 2005
Series 7- gift of Miami Herald Publishing Company, 2020
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Other Information
Accessions:
1984-201
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Archivist's note
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