South Florida Photograph Collection - 1870-2022

20,000+ Items (63 linear ft.)

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).

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]

The collection is open for research.

Mainly gifts, singly or in small lots. Provenance may be traced through the accession numbers.

Other Information

Some of the small collections are separately described in more detail.

Finding Aid Authors: Rebecca A. Smith.

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