Zone d'identification
Cote
Nom et localisation du dépôt
Niveau de description
Titre
Date(s)
- 1870-2017 (Création/Production)
Importance matérielle
20,000+ Items (63 linear ft.)
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
An artificial collection of photographic prints relating to the history of the Miami region and South Florida, collected by the archives from numerous sources from 1940 to the present.
Geographic headings include the Bahamas, Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, Cuba, Miami-Dade County, the Everglades region, Florida Keys, Hialeah, Key West, Miami, Miami Beach, etc.
Topical headings include agriculture (comptie starch, sugar, etc.), businesses and organizations (Burdines, etc.), ethnic groups (African Americans, Cubans, Haitians, Jews, Seminoles, etc.), hurricanes, sports (baseball, football, fishing, horse racing, j'ai alai, polo, sailing, etc.), transportation (aviation, automobiles, bridges, causeways, railroads, ships and boats, Tamiami Trail, etc.), tourism (attractions, alligators, etc.), and wars (Seminole, Spanish-American, world wars, etc.).
Biographical files include Brickell family, John C. Gifford (botanist), Carl Fisher (developer and entrepreneur), Oliver Griswold, James Franklin Jaudon (developer), George Merrick (developer), Arva Moore Parks (collector and historian), Thelma Peters (collector and historian), Everest and John Sewell (mayors and businessmen), Julia Tuttle, Karl Voelter (aviator), and Hamilton Wright (publicity photographer).
Mode de classement
The photographs are organized into four series: geographical or topical; biographical, family or provenance; slides; artifact photographs. Within each series, folders are arranged alphabetically.
Series 1-3 are arranged alphabetically. Some headings include over-sized materials which are boxed and housed separately. [R60 & R59]
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
The collection is open for research.
Accès physique
Accès technique
Conditions de reproduction
Langue des documents
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Instruments de recherche
Éléments d'acquisition et d'évaluation
Historique de la conservation
Source immédiate d'acquisition
Mainly gifts, singly or in small lots. Provenance may be traced through the accession numbers.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Sources complémentaires
Descriptions associées
Élément de notes
Note générale
Other Information
Some of the small collections are separately described in more detail.
Notes spécialisées
Identifiant(s) alternatif(s)
Zone du contrôle de la description
Règles ou conventions
Sources utilisées
Note de l'archiviste
Finding Aid Authors: Rebecca A. Smith.
Note de l'archiviste
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