Identity elements
Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Title
Date(s)
- 1871-1989 (predominant: 1939-1989) (Creation)
Extent
9.00 Linear Feet
Name of creator
Biographical history
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
The Thelma Peters Papers document various aspects of her career. Research files contain valuable information on Miami's early history, while her professional correspondence offers biographical insight into Peters' careers as teacher and pioneering historian. Similarly personal correspondence, photographic slides, and diary and notebook entries offer a good deal of information on the Caribbean and Latin America. Together they reveal that, even when not in her beloved South Florida, Thelma Peters possessed an inquisitive mind and an eye for detail.
The papers contain correspondence, research, literary manuscripts, photographs and slides pertaining to Dr. Peters' career and research. Copies of first hand accounts are also included, for example, the section of Parson's diary pertaining to George Buck's 1895 cruise. One box contains periodicals acquired by William H. Gleason while living at Biscayne (present-day Miami Shores); Gleason participated in state and local politics during Reconstruction.
System of arrangement
The papers are arranged in the following series: (1) Papers pertaining to Florida (2) Short stories and poetry (3) Ephemera relating to Organizations (4) Correspondence (5) Correspondence and documents relating to the Caribbean area and Central America (6) Book manuscripts (7) Book related materials (8) Personal Ephemera (9) Newspaper clippings and ephemera arranged by subject (10) Periodicals collected by William H. Gleason (11) Photographs (12) Travels in the Caribbean, 1952
Conditions of access and use elements
Conditions governing access
The collection is open for research.
Physical access
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.
Languages of the material
- English
Scripts of the material
Language and script notes
Finding aids
Acquisition and appraisal elements
Custodial history
Immediate source of acquisition
Bequest
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information
Accruals
Related materials elements
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related archival materials
Related descriptions
Notes element
General note
Other Information
Accessions:
1996-669
1997-596
1997-597
Specialized notes
Alternative identifier(s)
Description control element
Rules or conventions
Sources used
Archivist's note
Finding Aid Authors: Graham Andrew and Rebecca A. Smith.
Archivist's note
© Copyright 2019 HistoryMiami Archives & Research Center. All rights reserved.
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Gleason, William Henry, 1829-1902 (Subject)