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HMA0209 · Collection · 1919-1969

News clippings, photographic prints, programs, members' handbooks and other memorabilia record the activities of the Women's Panhellenic Association of Miami. There is a list of past presidents on the  flyleaf of the 1941-1944 scrapbook. The 1953-1969 scrapbook has retirement notices and funeral eulogy for Mary B. Merritt, longtime historian for the Association. Miss Merritt was Dean of Women at the University of Miami from 1926-1955.

Women's Panhellenic Association of Miami, Fla
HMA0237 · Collection · 1928-1960s (predominant: 1937-1948)

News clippings, articles, newsletters, photographic prints, memoranda, speeches and aviation industry publications reflect Albert A. Green's career and personal interest in the field. Includes material on the Greater Miami Aviation Asssociation; Miami-Dade Junior College aviation program; the Graf Zeppelin; newspaper and magazine clippings on Igor Sikorsky and the development of the flying boat.

Green, Albert A.
HMA0089 · Collection · 1916-1957

Yearbooks, student register, clippings, prints and other memorabilia follow the history of a long time Miami private school. Includes copies of The Frond (yearbook) from 1929-1957 (missing 1943). Card file trays with 4X6" cards list students from 1916 on; information includes enrollment dates, addresses, and occasionally family information, colleges attended, marriages and children. Two of the scrapbooks have clippings about school or graduates' activities: others have photographic prints, not usually dated or labelled; one green scrapbook has dated (1957-1961) photoprints, and appears to show the school after it moved from Miami to Palm City.

Album of photographs of former students, as children and adults, photographs of their families and letters from them to Miss Harris,1952-1954.

Four albums with photographs of students and Miss Harris, 1938-19--

Miss Harris' School scrapbook of graduates,1937-1959 (bulk 1945-1955). Mostly newspaper clippings from newspaper society pages documenting engagements, weddings and social activities of graduates of Miss Harris' School. A few clippings pertain to the history of the school itself. Also includes some photographic prints and invitations.

Miss Harris' Florida School
HMA0353 · Collection · 1970-1974

Substantial collection of clippings, mainly from South Florida newsletters, on environmental issues: the condition of the Everglades, droughts, the 1970 jetport and Turkey Point controversies, Key deer, development and preservation projects. Though it covers the activities of the Society and its president, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the bulk of the collection deals with four years of ongoing and often emotional public debate on the well-being of South Florida's ecology and economy

Cornwell, George [et.al.]
HMA0148 · Collection · 1885-1950s

Articles, clippings, pamphlets on Florida subjects, as well as on the activities of William Leonard Freeland, attorney and judge, and his wife Helen Elizabeth Comstock Freeland. Includes papers on Florida history, and full newspaper coverage of the 1926 hurricane. Photographs include the Orange Grove Elementary School and family portraits

Freeland family
HMA0348 · Collection · 1954-1966

Scrapbooks of clippings include the question-and-answer format Column with a Hart; the Glamor Clinic series; and general articles written by Eleanor Hart as a Miami Herald staff columnist. There are a few letters from individuals and organizations, usually thanking Miss Hart for help with a project. During these years people were moving to South Florida from other states in great numbers, and the columns include much advice on adjusting to life in a new community, as well as providing a clear reflection of contemporary social standards for women

Hart, Eleanor
HMA0347 · Collection · 1958-1973

More than half the collection consists of issues of the Association's newsletter, Dade County Teacher (issues from 1958-1973). It also includes the minutes from those years, and some news releases and handouts.

Dade County Classroom Teachers' Association
HMA0158 · Collection · 1930-1968

Newspaper clippings, conference programs, reports and memorabilia record the activities of the Dade County PTA and its members as well as school programs and local educational concerns. Books for 1930 and 1931, which celebrate the association's first decade, have considerable historical detail including individual school histories. The 1938-1939 book also has some loose material from the early 1940s. The 1944 and 1945 books are narrowest in scope, basically covering the state PTA convention, held respectively in Sarasota and Daytona Beach. The 1966-1968 book includes clippings on the 1968 teachers' walkout. Many of the books are dedicated to Mrs. Walter Beckham, who was PTA president for a number of years

Dade County Council of Parents and Teachers
1979-213 · Collection · 1928-1949

Photographic prints and newspaper clippings document the construction of Casa Casuarina Apartments, 1116 Ocean Drive, in 1930. Its general contractor was Willard Hubbell, and this scrapbook is also a Hubbell family album. There are many prints of his daughter Rosemary's childhood; material on his father, Henry Salem Hubbell, well-known portrait painter; clippings on Willard Hubbell's fruit and vegetable farming under cloth greenhouses, and a 1946 brochure of the Riddle Inter-American Institute, when he was its Dean. Photoprint backgrounds include a variety of Miami Beach and Coconut Grove houses, including David Fairchild's Kampong, Marjory Stoneman Douglas' home and Ye Little Wood.

Hubbell family
HMA0117 · Collection · 1895-1951

The collection, assembled through various gifts and purchases, contains materials pertaining to the construction of the railroad along the east coast of Florida from Jacksonville to Key West. The bulk consists of some company personnel and construction records along with papers generated by individuals connected with the project.

Florida East Coast Railway
HMA0223 · Collection · 1944-1978

National Airlines annual reports, 1944-1978, maps, charts, and miscellaneous company publications (such as a 1975 Fact Book; 1965 system timetable, issues of Aloft and National Now). Also includes prints of National Airlines ad campaign that featured Bill Archer ("I'm Bill. I fly Linda..."). The 1975 annual report is not included; there is a handwritten note saying that it "was not issued a/c strike."

Archer, Bill
HMA0082 · Collection · 1862-1939 (predominant: (bulk 1900-1930))

Correspondence, personal and business records, manuscripts, postcards, advertisements and other memorabilia from the J.W. Warner family, who were Miami's first florists, establishing the Miami Floral Company in 1906. Includes records for Warner House, their home and place of business; promotional material for the Magnetic Comb Company; a first-day cover commemorating the start of air mail service to Tallahassee; diaries of George H. Griffin ("Uncle George"), and an autobiographical narrative by Lena Clarke, Mrs. Warner's sister.

Miami Floral Company bills, orders and receipts.

Warner House insurance records.

Warner family
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
HMA0217 · Collection · 1989-1990

Memos, reports and other documents from the office of Thrift Supervision, which oversaw the government's takeover of the bank's operation. Also included is a newspaper clipping file detailing the problems that led to the bank's failure.

Centrust Federal Savings Bank
HMA0225 · Collection · 1940-1961

Papers include annual reports, photographs of police work and community involvement. Scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings of Kelly's military career, his tenure as sheriff, political campaigns for Sheriff's office, and his involvement in the Florida National Guards and his local branch of the American Legion.

Kelly, Thomas J