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Mostly visual materials showing views of people, places and commercial activity in Cuba. Photographs, including cabinet cards and cartes-de-viste; ephemera, including advertising cards, tobacco labels, sports cards and postage stamps; postcards; prints; drawings; periodicals; books; maps; and personal and business correspondence.

Various slides of Miami attractions in 1964. Views and events include: Vizcaya, Parrot Jungle, Miami Seaquarium, Miami Beach Auto Show, Lincoln Road, Miami International Airport (tarmac aerials and Pan Am check-in desk) and International Photographic Exposition.

Typescripts, brochures and magazines pertaining to the history of the school from its inception as the Pineknot Camp to the merger with the Everglades School for Girls in 1974. Included are brochures, fund-raising drive files, reports and the original inventory of the Ransom School Library. Most of the papers on the school's history are photocopies from past publications.

Articles, brochures and pamphlets containing reproductions of photography by Fisher. Most of the images were shot in Miami and illustrate advertisements and articles for various magazines.

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.

Scrapbooks contain materials on the Bel Aire Hotel, Hotel President Madison, Emmett W. Kehoe for County Solicitor, Multiple Sclerosis Fund, and Royal Palm Club. Many of the clippings report on notable visitors. Others relate to gambling at the Royal Palm Club in the late 1930s and to strategies to develop tourism.

The Raymond A. Mohl collection contains mostly newspaper clippings from the Miami Times that informed Dr. Mohl's  extensive research on urban issues in South Florida. The bulk pertains to the experiences of minority groups such as African Americans, Cubans, Haitians, Jamaicans,and Puerto Ricans in Miami. Topics include immigration, race relations, riots, and the trial of police officer, Wiliam Lozano.  Of note is a collection of columns that T. Willard Fair wrote for the Miami Times.

Also includes articles and student papers.

The Real Estate Ephemera Collection gathers ephemera and news clippings that document events, places, people and issues related to real estate in South Florida and the Caribbean. Files include  broadsides, brochures, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, tickets and other printed promotional pieces for developments and land sales in Dade County during the 1920s real estate boom.

Most of the report cards are from Ponce de Leon Senior High School

Large format, black-and-white negatives, including aerial photographs, street scenes, and other views of the Miami and Miami Beach areas. The aerial views date from the 1910s-1930s, and the 1950s.

Negatives include 4x5 and 5x7 glass plate and film negatives. Contact prints have been made from many of the images.

Mostly family portraits and group shots.

The collection contains photographs, and some papers, pertaining to student life at Ida M. Fisher School in Miami Beach during the 1920s and 1930s. Includes students' individual and class portraits, images of classroom activities, sporting events, after school activities, formal dances, PTA meetings, etc.

Papers include copies of the Miami Beach Reporter (1969-1970), and news clippings from various local papers, including the Miami Beach Sun, Miami Beach Times.

This collection South Florida road maps including tourist attraction maps, illustrated guides, and maps with user annotations.

The bulk of the collection contains postcards of street scenes, hotels, local attractions and Seminole Indians in Miami-Dade County. Also includes a group of photographs of the 1926 hurricane, tourists at Musa Isle and a family standing in front of the Goodyear Blimp. Many of the postcards include handwritten greetings written between the 1900s up through the 1960s.