Identity elements
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Name and location of repository
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Title
Date(s)
- 1870-1950 (Creation)
Extent
15.00 Boxes
Name of creator
Biographical history
Name of creator
Biographical history
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Scope and content
Visual materials, papers, and ephemera pertaining to Coconut Grove, Key West, and Miami. Some material pertains to African Americans in Miami, the Florida East Coast Railways, hurricanes, the Housekeepers Club, and real estate development. Collection documents residents' lives in the decades following the city's incorporation in 1896.
Much of the collection is composed of the papers of Hattie Carpenter and the Carpenter family, including the correspondence, essays, and real estate and financial papers. It also contains business records of African American businessman, R. A. Power who operated the R. A. Furniture Company and his wife, Nellie S. Powers, who ran the Miami Normal Industrial Colored School in Overtown.
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The collection is open for research.
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Other Information
Accession Number 1998 - 234; 1990 - 500; 1990-522; 1990-513
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