The Miami Pioneer Descendants sponsored the essay contest for Dade County High School seniors in an effort to promote research on the history of Dade County.
Donor's father, C. A. Vivian, purchased the volume from County Clerk E. B. Leatherman in 1941-1942.
Jefferson Bell was the society columnist for the Miami Herald during the 1920s.
Album compiled by the U. S. Army Air Corps.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, IV., published the Illustrated Daily Tab, a Miami tabloid, January 1925 - June 1926. One of his managerial staff compiled this album.
Album was compiled by the Hammond Realty Company to sell real estate during the land boom. Hammond Realty headquarters were at 227 E. Flagler St., Miami.
McCrory's, a variety store located at 23 East Flagler Street, operated in Miami from 1919 to the 1990s.
The Miami District Office was located at 3915 Biscayne Boulevard.
The Murphy Cycle Company was located at 177 W. Flagler Street and the service center at 324-26 NW 13th Street and the Cycledrome was built at the southeast corner of NW 28th Street & 7th Ave.
A. B. Gardner lived with his family at Coban Lodge in Coconut Grove.
Fisherman, fishing guide, and charter boat captain, Thompson earned his living from sports fishing. In 1912 he caught a whale shark in the Florida Keys, had it preserved, and took it on tour around the country for a number of years. In 1928-1929 he accompanied Mr. and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt on a cruise around the world to collect specimens for Vanderbilt's museum.
Edmund G. Burke was a Miami interior designer and member of the Decorator and Designers Guild.
During the summer of 1941, Miami region residents Andrew and Hazel Houston, Muta Sinclair, and Vivian Johnson drove from Coral Gables to Quebec and back. This scrapbook was compiled as a souvenir of the trip.
Nina McAdam was valedictorian of the 1920 graduating class at Miami High School. After graduating from the University of Florida, she joined the faculty at Miami High School and was appointed Dean of girls in 1930. She also served as president of the greater Miami Zonta Club.
Nixon Smiley was gardening editor for the Miami Herald. His book, _Subtropical Gardening in Florida,_was __published by the University of Miami Press in 1951