Elementos de identidad
Código de referencia
Nombre y localización del repositorio
Nivel de descripción
Colección
Título
Miami News Photograph Collection - 1896-1988
Fecha(s)
- 1896-1988 (predominant: 1940-1988) (Creación)
Extensión
187.00 Linear Feet
Nombre del productor
Historia administrativa
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
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.
Sistema de arreglo
The Miami News Collection contains three series: photographic prints, negatives, and other materials.
Series 1, photographic prints, contains three subseries: (1) topical, (2) biographical, and (3) the Jay Spencer collection. Photographic prints in the topical and biographic subseries are organized in folders using headings created by the Miami News; the folders are arranged alphabetically.
Series 2, negatives, are mostly arranged by size, photographer and date, and retain their original order. Each envelope contains one photo shoot/assignment, and may contain one to 100 items.
They are then arranged in three subseries: (1) 35mm negatives, 1973-1980; (2) 35mm negatives, 1978-1988; and (3) Our Sunday Portrait, various subjects and World War II in Miami area, 1941-1965.
Condiciones de acceso y uso de los elementos
Condiciones de acceso
The collection is open for research.
Acceso físico
Acceso técnico
Condiciones
Permission from HistoriyMiami Archives staff required prior to reproduction of photographs in a publication. Please contact archives staff for more information.
Idiomas del material
- inglés
Escritura(s) de los documentos
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
Instrumentos de descripción
Generated finding aid
Elementos de adquisición y valoración
Historial de custodia
Origen del ingreso
During the 1980s, the Miami News donated a number of negatives and prints to the Historical Museum of Southern Florida. In 1989, after the Miami News had ceased publication, Cox Enterprises, the Miami News’ parent company, disposed of the paper’s assets. Through the efforts of Howard Kleinberg and David Kraslow, Cox Enterprises gave the historically important materials to the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, Several smaller groups of photographic prints from the Miami News morgue have been donated by photographers and a historian who had borrowed them from the paper prior to 1989.
Valoración, selección y eliminación
HASF staff selected the most significant photographic print files, about 25,000 out of 200,000 images. Selection criteria included: 1) images pertaining to Dade and Monroe counties, Bahamas, and the Caribbean; 2) preference for images by Miami News photographers, rather than wire service photos; and 3) files predating 1974 (images later than 1973 are in the negatives). Biographical files were selected using lists from several biographical directories as well as archivists’ knowledge of state and local history. A number of historically significant biographical files were probably missed, as time for selection of files was limited. After HASF’s initial selection of photographic prints, the Palm Beach Post library added a number of images to their paper’s files. HASF staff then selected another group of prints, and integrated them into the collection. The remainder were then destroyed.
Acumulaciones
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Unidades de descripción relacionadas.
Related artifacts are in HistoryMiami's objects collection.
Additional photographic prints from the Miami News are in the Palm Beach Post library, West Palm Beach, Florida.
Descripciones relacionadas
Elemento notas
Nota general
Other Information
Accessions:
1989-011
1995-277
1994-370
Notas especializadas
Identificador/es alternativo(os)
Área de control de la descripción
Reglas o convenciones
Fuentes
Nota del archivista
Finding Aid Authors: Rebecca A. Smith and archives staff.
Nota del archivista
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