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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.

Photographs show completed residences designed by Robert Fitch Smith. An album of photos and some newspaper clippings document the building of the" Bungalow of Tomorrow" for the Miami Builders' Exchange second annual Better Homes Exposition. A copy of "Architecture and Design", vol. v, no. 15 (d), August 1941 is devoted to Smith's work. A sketch book shows projects in various stages of completion with cost details, and his notes pertaining to bloodlines for the pigeons he raised as a hobby.

Drawings include the Doc Thomas house in South Miami, Interama sketches, the University Church (Coral Gables) and dwellings. The Doc Thomas house is noted on the blueprint as the Hayes Thomas House. Located at 5530 Sunset Drive serves as the headquarters for the Tropical Audubon Society.

The drawings of the interiors with furnishings were done for the Smith family house on Kirk Street in Coconut Grove, ca. 1952. Drawings and sketches for residences include interiors with furnishings. A blueprint for the Doc Thomas House in South Maimi, watercolor renderings for a church and sketches for the Interama project.

The drawings of the interiors with furnishings were done for the Smith family house on Kirk Street in Coconut Grove, ca. 1952.

Drawings and sketches for residences include interiors with furnishings. A blueprint for the Doc Thomas House in South Maimi, watercolor renderings for a church and sketches for the Interama project.

Scrapbooks documenting the political career of Robert L. Floyd. Includes photographs, handwritten notes, correspondences, awards, campaign memorabilia, and other ephemera related to his political activities in Miami during his twenty-year public career.

Correspondence, pamphlets, maps, reports, newsclippings and articles pertain to archaeology and history of Florida and the Caribbean. Includes drafts of articles by various authors submitted to The Florida Anthropologist and related correspondence; and miscellaneous records and correspondence for several organizations. Magazine articles pertaining to hunting and fishing in Florida also form part of the collection.

Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings compiled for Robert R. Taylor, Dade County Solicitor, documents crimes that were investigated and cases that were prosecuted during his tenure. Editorials from the local newspapers also weigh in on issues that affected the community.  Many involved gambling and racketeering, the presence and activities of mobsters and other unsavory characters, voter fraud, prostitution, white slavery and other criminal activity. Also included is a selection from the Miami Herald series "the Good old days," which chronicled people, places and events in Dade County.

Notations in the smaller scrapbooks indicates that they were complied by Charles Harris Royer for Robert R. Taylor.

The collection contains correspondence pertaining to Roger Perrine Delano's service in the United States Navy during World War II, family photographs, and materials about his career and retirement from the Dade County Court system. Also included is a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, correspondence, and ephemera compiled by his grandmother, Sarah Rodgers Walker Palmer.

Research materials and reproductions of maps pertaining to the historical geography of Biscayne Bay and adjacent parts of Dade County. Collection includes photocopies of articles from many sources, 1513-1985.

Printed materials gathered for research on Florida editions of Fodor's travel guides. The collection covers attractions, culture, hotels, places, restaurants, travel and tourism, primarily in the Florida Keys, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Key West, Palm Beach, St. Maarten and the Bahamas.

Hotel press kits, restaurant menus and newspaper clippings, 1987-1991. Pertains to the hospitality industry in Dade County during the 1980s and 1990s, and document a period of intense growth in this sector. The newspaper clippings also cover night clubs.

Materials are organized by place and include brochures, menus, maps, newsletters, newspaper clippings, magazines, etc. The bulk pertains to Key West, the Florida Keys and Miami-Dade County. A Florida section covers smaller cites and areas in the region. Several publications of the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission are also included.

The materials were gathered for use in the following editions of Fodor's travel guides, which the Leposkys co-authored: Fodor's 90 Greater Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach. New York: Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc., 1988. -- Fodor's 90 Florida. New York: Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc., 1988. -- Fodor's 89 Greater Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach. New York: Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc., 1988. -- Fodor's 89 Florida. New York: Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc., 1988.

Access note: Please contact the Research Center staff in advance to arrange for access as materials are stored offsite.

Records include: bound rosters (membership lists) and rotes (club minutes), Board of Directors minutes, financial records and club correspondence, scrapbooks of clipping and photographs, brochures and commemorative programs highlighting the Clubs history and projects. Some copies of the Rotarian magazine with articles about Florida Clubs are included.

Collection includes correspondence, ephemera, oral history interviews and photographs pertaining to Roxcy O'Neal lifelong engagement as a community activist in Miami-Dade County.

Of note are two letters: One, from Florida Attorney General, Robert L. Shevin to Bolton explains the newly enacted legislation pertaining to the crime of rape in Florida. Shevin noted that the new law was based on Bolton's recommendations and represents a substantial modification to the crime of rape. The other, from Bolton to the Playboy Plaza Hotel in Miami Beach takes the hotel to task for its treatment of women.

Clippings from Miami area newspapers, telegrams, invitation to Roosevelt's inauguration, resolutions of sympathy from the City of Miami and from the State of New Mexico, correspondence, especially from the Odd Fellows, are all related to the attempted assassination of President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt by Giuseppi Zangara in Bayfront Park, Miami. Also included is the May 1933 issue of Startling Detective Adventures, containing an article entitled I Kill all Presidents [a quote from Zangara].

Materials were collected by Russell Caldwell, one of the five persons injured when Zangara fired five shots into the crowd listening to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Bayfront Park in downtown Miami.