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Exhibition-quality photographic prints of buildings designed by architect Igor B. Polevitsky between 1934 and the mid-1960s. Photographers include Samuel H. Gottscho, Rudi Rada, and Ernest Graham. Includes views of Miami Beach and Miami residences (Birdcage house), Miami Beach hotels (Shelbourne, Albion, etc.), Havana hotels (Havana Biltmore, Havana Riviera), automotive businesses (car dealerships, gas stations, General Tires), retail shops (jewelry and shoe stores), offices (Kislak Mortgage, etc.), and other businesses (Arthur Murray, restaurants).

The Miami News photographs document events, places, and people in Dade County and, to a less extent, Monroe County, Broward County, Cuba, the Bahamas, and the West Indies. Images that record the corporate history of the Miami News are also included.

Renderings, drawings, photographs, contracts and specification documents, and photocopies of copyright certficates. The books mostly cover various Dade County building codes and builders directories. Also included is Mr Zachar's copy of the engineering manual from Czechoslovakia, 1915.

Correspondence, minutes, financial documents, yearbooks, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks and other materials pertaining to the Miami Beach Garden Club. Records include related organizations:  the Miami Beach Garden Center and Conservancy, Miami Beach Garden Center and Conservancy Committee, Tropical Garden Club and Palm−Hibiscus Garden Club.

The bulk of the collection are from performances at major Miami-Dade and Broward County venues, including: Actor's Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, Bailey Concert Hall, Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Dade County Auditorium, Jackie Gleason Theatre, Maurice Gusman Cultural Center, Miami City Ballet, Miami Film Festival, Parker Playhouse, and Studio M Playhouse. Also includes programs for Miami City Ballet performances and University of Miami productions from the School of Music and the Department of Theatre Arts.

A substantial portion of the records trace the early development of the agency through the correspondence that Dolores Gamble maintained with local agencies, blind clients and students, government officials and private individuals. Additional files document her involvement with music associations for the blind during the 1970s. Other folders contain the agency’s fund raising activities, media relations, reports and surveys, financial documents, annual reports, newsletters, photographic prints, scrapbooks and newspaper clippings.

Photographs by Barbara G. Schindler of people and places in Miami-Dade County. The bulk of the images are of Miami's ethnic neighborhoods, including Little Haiti, Little Havana and the Jewish enclave on South Beach. Views show advertising signs, exteriors and interiors of houses and hotels, lawn ornaments, objects associated with Santeria and Voudou, store fronts, street scenes and restaurants. Other views show the Coconut Grove Cemetery, farm laborers in South Dade, and personalities including Eli Weisel, Senator Bob Graham and Janet Reno.

Letters and notes to Marjory Stoneman Douglas are mostly from William C. Sturtevant, Curator of the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution. Contains research notes on Britton Hammon and plans to reprint Hammon's narrative, "Notes on The Uncommon sufferings of a Negro man in Florida and Cuba, 1747-1760. Also included is a hand written manuscript by Douglas for an article entitled, "Green," that was published in the Village Post.

Collection mostly represents the Miami area schools that the collector attended. The bulk of the materials are from Miami Senior High School and include: diplomas, commencement programs, student newspapers and football programs, yearbooks. Class reunion item include: programs, directories, slide views and video presentation from reunion events. A few items are from Kinlock Park Junior High School and Dade County Junior College.

Other items include: bound photocopies of yearbooks from Ada Merritt Jr. High, Shenandoah Jr. High and West Miami Jr. High School, an a photograph of Robert F. Kennedy at an event at a hotel  on Miami Beach.

Playbills and programs for musical and dramatic performances from a number of theaters in Miami-Dade and Broward counties..

The Tim Chapman collection consists of photographs and related materials shot or collected by photojournalist Tim Chapman during the second half of the twentieth century. While most materials pertain to people, places, and events in the Miami area, Latin American and world events are also represented.

The collection includes his professional work as a photojournalist as well as his photography for personal interest. Photographic media include 35mm negatives and slides (mainly black-and-white), photographic prints, and born-digital, color images. Supporting material includes newspaper and magazine articles containing illustrations by Chapman.

Photography pertaining to people, places, and events in the Miami area includes crime scenes; politics; the Mariel boatlift; the upheaval of the 1980s, including the Cocaine Cowboys; and Hurricane Andrew. The shots also include images of ordinary and famous people.

During 2013, Chapman filled a series of notebooks with handwritten notes identifying the most significant images. Entries are chronological, to coincide with the arrangement of the collection.

Most of the images were taken in the Miami-Dade County area, Jamaica and Haiti.

The bulk of the collection is from events staged at the Actors Playhouse, Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center, Gables Stage and the Miami City Ballet. In addition to items from other South Florida theatres, there are programs and brochures from the Carbonell Awards for excellence in theatre and the arts in South Florida.

Additional materials donated in 2015, and covering the 2012-2015 seasons are housed in box 13. Also includes a DVD and correspondence outlining The New World Symphony’s initiative for increased funding to improve programs and community outreach.

In addtion to playbills, materials pertaining to Joe Robbie Stadium, Hialeah Racetrack, and the Marlins were donated as part of the 2017 accrual. Of note are the donor's scrapbook and licensing documents regarding a suite at Joe Robbie stadium, personal photographs at Hialeah Racetrack and World Series baseball ephemera. These materials may be found in boxes 15 and 16.

Images of Miami-Dade County buildings and street scenes, people and events. Negatives form the bulk of the collection. One box holds photographic prints and slides.

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.