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HMA0101 · Collection · circa 1900-1950 (predominant: 1914-1938)

The Jaudon papers contain a large amount of business correspondence and some personal correspondence. Within the files are business brochures, financial papers, and newspaper clippings. See Biographical Note for summaries of Jaudon’s projects, all of which are represented in the papers.

Five letters and four copies relating to the sale of land and the expansion of Snapper Creek Canal for drainage. Jaudon correspondents include Thomas F. West, Attorney General, and F.C. Elliott, Chief Drainage Engineer.

Jaudon, James Franklin, 1873-1938
HMA0114 · Collection · 1906-1950 (predominant: 1906-1926)

Elevations, renderings, plans, and details of houses, stores, churches, schools, office buildings, hotels, club houses, and apartments. Many of the drawings are notable for their draftsmanship. Structures represented in these drawings were built in Belle Isle, Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, Ft. Lauderdale, Homestead, Key Largo, Miami, Miami Beach, Miami Shores, and Star Island.

Significant buildings designed by DeGarmo and represented in these records include: Miami City Hall (1907) Demolished. -- McAllister Hotel (1916) 10 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami. Demolished. -- Miami Beach Community Church (1921) 500 Lincoln Road. -- Coral Gables Bank and Post Office (1924) Alhambra Circle, Coral Gables. -- St. Teresa (Convent) School (with Phineas Paist, 1924) Coral Gables. -- Colonnade Building (collaborator) Coral Gables. -- Douglas Entrance (collaborator) Coral Gables.

DeGarmo, Walter C., 1876-
HMA0425 · Collection · 1926-1950

Correspondence, numerous maps, reports, newspaper clippings, architectural and engineering plans for Miami Beach city projects, press releases and publicity material, photographic prints, traffic surveys for 1933, 1934 and 1940, and other papers pertain to the work of the city manager for Miami Beach and reflect aspects of the city's history. Includes material on the attempt to purchase the Firestone and Warner estates at 44th Street and oceanfront, for a city park; Miami Beach tourism during the war years; the 1944-1945 "bathing suit" ordinance; and a 1945 survey of medical facilities in Dade County.

Renshaw, Claude A
HMA0184 · Collection · 1870-1950

Visual materials, papers, and ephemera pertaining to Coconut Grove, Key West, and Miami. Some material pertains to African Americans in Miami, the Florida East Coast Railways, hurricanes, the Housekeepers Club, and real estate development. Collection documents residents' lives in the decades following the city's incorporation in 1896.

Much of the collection is composed of the papers of Hattie Carpenter and the Carpenter family, including the correspondence, essays, and real estate and financial papers. It also contains business records of African American businessman, R. A. Power who operated the R. A. Furniture Company and his wife, Nellie S. Powers, who ran the Miami Normal Industrial Colored School in Overtown.

Carpenter, Hattie Harrison
HMA0055 · Collection · 1906-1950

Charter, minutes of special and annual meetings, register of stockholders and inventories of merchandise and legal documents.

Miami Wholesale Grocery Company
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
HMA0384 · Collection · 1914-circa 1953.

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.

Hoit, Richard B., 1887-1973
HMA0107 · Collection · 1932-1953

Photographs, newsletters, newspaper clippings, directories and ephemera pertaining to the service clubs and their community activites. Also include  business cards from Miami Beach companies and a campaign letter from Mitchell Wofson.

HMA0065 · Collection · 1889-1954 (predominant: 1895-1898)

Papers: Correspondence, legal and financial documents, and biographical material. The bulk of the correspondence is dated 1895-1898, is addressed to Julia Tuttle, and deals with business transactions; principal correspondents are Henry Flagler and J. E. Ingraham. Legal documents include warranty deeds, a photocopy of Julia Tuttle's will of 1889, a certified copy of her 1896 will, and abstracts of the legal maneuvers that took place after her death. Also included is information on the Tuttle family, some 1950s material on events honoring Julia Tuttle, and the typescript of For Julia, a biographical novel written by Florida author Zachary Ball (pseudonym of Kelly Ray Masters)

Photographs: studio portraits of Julia Tuttle, William Sturtevant, husband Frederick Tuttle, son Henry Tuttle, daughter Frances Emmalie Tuttle, family and friends. Views of Fort Dallas, the Miami River area, and the Tuttle home in Cleveland, Ohio. Most views are albumen prints, ranging in size from carte-de-visite to about 8 x 10 inches.

Tuttle family.
HMA0088 · Collection · 1921-1955

Concert programs, newsclippings, correspondence, magazine articles, cartoons, photographic prints, and newsletters trace the activities of the Miami Conservatory from its beginning in 1921 until the mid-1950s. Material also covers a wide range of musical events, organizations and individuals in South Florida for those years. There is also much information on the early years of the University of Miami, on the Aeolian Chorus (women's voices), and on the Musicians Club of America, which aimed to provide retirement facilities for musicians

Miami Conservatory of Music (Miami, Fla.)
HMA0060 · Collection · 1899-1955 (predominant: 1930-1942)

Correspondence, clippings, brochures, maps, real estate records and related papers trace the activities of George Merrick, founder of the city of Coral Gables. Most of the collection pertains to the 1930s and later years, including a substantial amount on the Dade County Planning Board.

Warranty deeds dated 1899 and 1903 for Solomon Merrick record the purchase of the original Merrick property in what would become Coral Gables and for three lots in downtown Miami.

Letter from Rev. J. D. Kuykendall congratulating Merrick on his design for Coral Gables and suggests adding a college to the plan.

Letter offering properties for sale to George Merrick, circa 1935.

Dade County County Commission appointment for George Merrick and stock certificate. 1915.

Merrick, George Edgar, 1886-1942
HMA0078 · Collection · 1896-1955

Correspondence, receipts, photographs and ephemera mostly pertaining to Musa Isle Fruit Farm.

Letter from Henry Flagler enclosing an article: "Cultivation of Bananas" [not in repository] for Richardson, whose place had "quite a patch of bananas."

Advertising section of The Miami Metropolis, January 24, 1908 lists several Miami businesses and attractions.

First place certificate award presented to Otis Richardson by Dade County Agricultural and Horticultural Society,1902. Also includes a view of his display.

HMA0182 · Collection · 1914-1955 (predominant: 1920-1940)

Consists of sheet music whose subject matter pertains to Miami and South Florida. The bulk of the  collection was copyrighted between 1920 and 1940. Musical genres include popular songs, piano music, solo instrumental music, and music for band and orchestra. Selected titles include “Moon over Miami”, “Miami Beach Rumba” ,“The Magic Realm,” and “My Isle of Golden Dreams”