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Aerial views of places in Miami-Dade County, including Miami Beach, Miami, Hialeah, and Opa-locka. Some shots of airplanes and airplane wrecks during or just after World War I. About 310 views.

Aerial Views of Sunny Isles, Bimini (Bahamas), and Ft. Myers. 30 views.

Most views are of Rosie and Baby Carl, Carl Fisher's elephants. Other views depict dogs, parrots, pigeons, and a bear. 69 views.

Views of the Hollywood Beach Hotel (Hollywood, Fla.) and Hotel Montauk (Long Island, New York?). 5 items.

Views of apartment buildings and duplexes in the city of Miami Beach. 126 items.

Exterior views of apartment buildings in the city of Miami, including the Bulmer and Brickell apartments (off Brickell Avenue), Gallett Court, Granada Apartments, and Ft. Dallas Park. 44 items.

Military views include Dinner Key, Marine training field, and aviators during or just after World War I; airplane wrecks; naval ships and sailors; and victory parade. Civilian aeronautical views include Pan Am, Eastern, air mail flights, air shows, flying boats, and airships. About 350 views.

Men, women and children in bathing suits and at the beach (Miami Beach). Includes views of Roman Pools, lifeguards, and some prominent individuals (Al Smith, Jack Dempsey, Glenn Curtiss, Jackie Ott, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Fisher). 179 views.

Views of bathing casinoes (Roman Pools, Cook's, Hardie's, Smith's, Deauville, Sunny Isles, Opa-locka pool), beach sports (swimming, diving, water polo, aqua-planing), Views of Palm Fete, beauty pageants, lifeguards, Christmas day at the beach (1921, 1926), and a Miami Beach high school class. Beach scenes at Lummus Park and South Beach. 330 views.

No gambling casinoes are in this series.

Views of passenger ships, yachts, sailboats, wooden speed boats, houseboats, gondolas, and the Miami Beach ferry. Other views include Miami and Miami Beach docks, Government Cut dredging and jetty construction, boat launchings, and U.S. President Warren Harding onboard a boat. 87 views.

Views of the Roney Plaza (Miami Beach), Eastman studio and gallery (Miami Beach) and Woolworth Building (Flagler Street, Miami). Prints apparantly destroyed prior to 1974.4 5x7 in. negatives.

Views of churches in Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, Miami, and Miami Beach, St. Augustine, and one view of a synagogue. Activities include services, Sunday school, social events, etc. Churches include Plymouth Congregational, Gesu Catholic, Central Baptist, Miami Beach Community, Coral Gables Congregational, etc. 150 views.

Circuit photographs covering a variety of subject matter including Miami dwellings, people, Miami Beach commerical property, the Miami River, miltary personnel, aviators, the Miami Anglers' Club, canals, and causeways.

The bulk of the collection are 5x7 photographic prints. Views are of places, building exteriors, events and people in Miami, Miami Beach, and South Florida. Examples of topics include: clearing mangroves on Miami Beach and construction of the Overseas Highway; Seminole and Miccosukee Indians, mainly at Musa Isle and along the Tamiami Trail; present-day Everglades National Park, Tamiami Trail and environs, present-day Big Cypress National Preserve, and Ft. Jefferson (Dry Tortugas).

Corresponding negatives exist for most of the photographic prints. 5x7 inch negatives include original safety negatives and direct duplicate negatives made from nitrate-based negatives. 4x5 negaives include original safety negatives, direct duplicate negatives made from nitrate-based negatives, and copy negatives made from the 5x7 prints.

Matlack kept several logs, which record number, date photographed, and, for about half the entries, brief subject. The photographer's logs are in several original, post-bound binders.

Photographs shot for advertising illustrations, insurance claims, etc. Includes views of things (jewelry, auto parts, aerocar moving van and bus, etc.), displays, businesses (FEC Railway sidings, Ft. Lauderdale gas plant, etc.) Views of decorative iron objects or or in homes (gates, doors, window grills, lamps, railings, etc.) Includes views of wrecked autos, transplanting of Royal Palms, etc. 1921-1933. 149 views.