Miami Lighthouse for the Blind records - 1928-2000

5.00 Linear Feet

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.

Arranged in 4 series: 1. Dorothy Gamble - correspondence, 1928-1975. 2. Administration, correspondence, finances and programs, 1929-2000. 3. Newspaper clippings, 1968-1995. 4. Photographs, scrapbooks and slides, 1930-1960.

The collection is open for research.

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• Engels

Gift.

Other Information

Individual issues of the Miami Rote from 1929-1934 (the monthly newsletter of the Rotary Club of Miami) were removed and filed in the South Florida Ephemera Collection under Miami-Clubs.

Accession number:

2005-266

2005-300

Finding Aid Authors: Dawn Hugh.

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