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HMA0073 · Collection · 1898-1924

Field notes from land surveys conducted primarily in Dade County. Properties surveyed include: Richmond property at Cutler (i.e., Charles Deering Estate); Vizcaya; Cape Florida; Charles Deering estate at Buena Vista; prairie lands of northeast Dade County; Montrey Corp. subdivision; Carl Fisher and Hugh Matheson homes; Lawrence Estate (Miami River); Key Largo Club; Halcyon Hotel; Seybold Arcade; etc

Biscayne Engineering Company
HMA0427 · Collection · 1916-1924

Collection consists of ink on linen and pencil on tracing paper drawings of the church and its kitchen and parsonage. The church was designed between 1916 and 1918, and the kitchen and parsonage, between 1924 and 1926. Some of the sheets are damaged or fragile.

MacKenzie, Clinton
HMA0104 · Collection · 1901-1924

Surveys of portions of Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties for the  Model Land Company, The Perrine Grant Land Company and the Boston & Florida Atlantic Coast Company. Included are Arch Creek, Homestead and Perrine. The surveys were undertaken by the Biscayne Engineering Company and the Everglades Engineering Company.

Model Land Company
HMA0371 · Collection · 1922-1925

Miami law firm's accounts journal reflect day-to-day transactions during the land boom years. Entries are for: 1922 May 22-1922 December 31 (water damaged). -- 1923 January 2-1923 August 30. -- 1924 November 18-1925 March 27.

HMA0398 · Collection · 1923-1926 (predominant: 1924-1925)

Photographs of Coral Gables structures and environs, mostly shot by William A. Fishbaugh, with a few shot by Manley Brower. The photographs are from two albums collected by landscape architect Frank M. Button.

Button, Frank M., 1866-1938
08/ · Collection · 1925-1926

Newspaper clippings and notes pertain to real estate and banking matters at the height of the Florida land boom. Collection also includes letters of recommendation for M.L. Sumner

Sumner, M. L
HMA0373 · Collection · 1915-1927

The journals are filled with short notes and captions and lavishly illustrated with postcards, maps, photographs, ticket stubs, menus and other ephemera. Among the photographs are images of actors: Theda Bara, William Farnum and Evelyn Nesbit on a Fox film set in Miami in 1919.

Bush, Carrie L., b. 1868
HMA0147 · Collection · 1925-1928 (predominant: 1925-1928)

Business correspondence, contracts, financial records, newspaper clippings, abstract of titles, zoning correspondence and newspaper clippings for the Brickell Avenue area, and other real estate business. Of particular interest are the files detailing the division of the Brickell estate following Maude Brickell's bankruptcy in 1929, and the ensuing lawsuits involving Brickell, Pietro and Elisabeth Di Pietro and Ray.

Ray, James C.
HMA0248 · Collection · 1927-1928

These papers, found under a house in Key West, Florida, in 1987, are largly comprised of letters and notes to Mr. Powers from fans, relatives and associates, relating to several flag-pole sitting events conducted by him during 1927 and 1928.

No search has been made for independent sources of information relating to Mr. Powers, though clippings reveal that these events were rather extensively reported in newspapers of the time.

These papers reveal that Powers had lived in and continued to have family and other associates in New Bedford, Massachusetts. In July 1927, he sat on a flag-pole atop the Morrison Hotel in Chicago for 16 days, 3 hours and 27 minutes, thus becoming in the words of a promoter the “World Champion Flagpole Sitter.”

In January of 1928 he was similarly engaged in Miami, Florida, on the Ponce de Leon Hotel. He had similar plans for the La Concha Hotel in Key West, Florida, and was considering such a venture for Havana, Cuba.

Mr. Powers also contracted to do normal steeplejack work, such as painting high structures.

Powers, Joe
HMA0074 · Collection · 1909-1920s

Diary is a lively and detailed account of a young girl's family and social life in early Miami. Scrapbooks are unarranged: one holds pictures clipped from magazines and some photographic prints; the other has loose material including poetry by Fannie Clemons and typed transcripts of letters with genealogical information on the Buswell and related families.

Clemons, Fannie, 1891-1977
HMA0399 · Collection · 1920s

Collection contains black and white photographic prints taken by Alice Wood studio in the early 1920s. Images include scenes of the Bahamas (Nassau), Cuba, and Broward and Dade County, including photographs of Miami, Vizcaya, and Palm Beach. Contains views of the Florida East Coast Railway, early real estate development, and land dredging.

Wood, Alice
HMA0412 · Collection · circa 1929

Photographic prints with corresponding negatives of one and two-story single and multiple family residential buildings in Dade County. The buildings are for the most part small-scale examples of Mediterranean revival, mission revival, bungalow, and vernacular architectural styles. The largest grouping falls into the mission revival category, with some examples combining mission revival, pueblo, and Moorish detailing. Among the vernacular structures, there are both frame and masonry examples.

Consolidated Realty Service, Inc
HMA0379 · Collection · 1920-1929

Views of Coral Gables on negatives. Includes land marks, commercial, government and residential buildings. Of note are interior shots of the Miami Biltmore Hotel and the Coral Gables Bank.

Fishbaugh, William A.
03/ · Collection · 1914-1931

Record books are missing many pages; remaining information pertains to Miami Beach sales figures, use of electricity, water and so on for varying years. Papers include a proposal addressed to the Miami Beach City Commission, for improvements to be made in 1926, two maps showing these proposed sewers, paving and water mains; and a report from the Miami Beach City Auditor for August 1931

Floyd, C. B
HMA0048 · Collection · 1893-1935 (predominant: 1893-1920)

Correspondence, photoprints, legal documents, bills, newsclippings, and notes on family history are concerned with the linked McDonald-Reilly-Pero families; with Henry M. Flagler, for whom Joseph A. McDonald built hotels; and gives sidelights on the early history of Miami. Includes details on the building and furnishing of John B. Reilly's home at 1411 SW 11 Street, Miami (1926-1928); considerable correspondence on a proposed sugarcane plantation and sugar refinery for Miami (1911); and a number of letters from Flagler to Joseph McDonald.

Senior class report cards for Joseph H. Pero and Donald Carey Pero, from St. Theresa School, Coral Gables, ca. 1935

Pero family