Identity elements
Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Title
Date(s)
- 1914-circa 1953. (Creation)
Extent
Approximately 2,000 items.
Name of creator
Biographical history
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
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.
System of arrangement
Negatives are arranged by size and support (glass or film), and within these series by control number assigned by Hoit.
Conditions of access and use elements
Conditions governing access
Physical access
Appointments required prior to viewing negatives.
Technical access
Conditions governing reproduction
The collection is open for research.
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Scripts of the material
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Finding aids
Acquisition and appraisal elements
Custodial history
Immediate source of acquisition
Purchase.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information
Around 1979, the nitrate base negatives were copied onto direct duplicate S0-015 film, and the originals destroyed for safety reasons.
Accruals
Related materials elements
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related archival materials
Contact prints made from many of the negatives are interfiled by topic in the South Florida Photographs collection.
Photographs shot by Richard Hoit appear in a number of other collections at the HistoryMiami Archives & Research Center. These include three boxes (198 items) of photographic prints in the Miami Herald Collection; 300 to 400 negatives in the Miami Beach Visitor and Convention Authoriy Collection; and many smaller photographic print holdings.
Hoit photographs in other repositories include the University of Miami, which holds four boxes of his photographs, and the Miami-Dade Public Library System, where a few hundred Hoit photographs are contained within the Gleason Waite Romer photographs.
Information about related materials is available at http://merrick.library.miami.edu/specialCollections/asm0636/
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Archivist's note
Finding Aid Authors: Rebecca A. Smith.
Archivist's note
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