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The 10th registered architect in Florida, he opened his own firm in 1911, and in 1915 opened a second office in Palm Beach. Known for Mediterranean Revival Style.

Joseph Auslander was born on October 11, 1897 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A graduate of Harvard College, He was a poet, anthologist, translator of poems, editor, and novelist. Auslander was appointed as the first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, from 1937 to 1941. Auslander was noted for his war poems, and his best-known work is "The Unconquerables" (1943), a collection of poems addressed to the German-occupied countries of Europe.

Audrey Wurdemann was born January 1, 1911 in Seattle, Washington. Wurdemann was the youngest winner of the Pulitzer Price for Poetry at the age of 24, for her collection Bright Ambush. She married Joseph Auslander in 1932. Wurdemann and Auslander collaborated on the novels My Uncle Jan and The Islanders.

They spent their last years living in Coral Gables, Florida. Wurdemann died on May 20, 1960 and Auslander died on June 22, 1965.

Una Austin was a professional concert mezzo-soprano singer in London in the early 1900s. During World War I she gave concerts to entertain the British soldiers in India, where she met her husband, Lewis Weeks in 1921. She was the mother of the late L. Austin Weeks, who was a benefactor of the Frost School of Music’s Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library and Technology Center.

Una Austin was a professional concert mezzo-soprano singer in London in the 1910s.  During World War I she gave concerts to entertain the British soldiers in India, where she met her husband, Lewis Weeks in 1921.  She was the mother of the late L. Austin Weeks, who was a benefactor of the Frost School of Music’s Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library and Technology Center.

Thomas W. Austin was born in Bethesda, Maryland on December 7, 1955, and he graduated in 1978 from University of Miami with a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism/Communications. He began his journalism career mainly writing for the Miami Herald and the Miami, Broward, and Palm Beach Review newspapers from 1987 to 1991. From 1991 to 1996, he served as a regular columnist for the New Times, mainly authoring its Swelter column before he went on to write for Ocean Drive Magazine from 1996 to 2015. He also frequently contributed freelance articles for several popular nationwide magazines, such as US Magazine, USA Today, People Magazine, W, Interview magazine, Spanish Vogue, Travel & Leisure, Art & Antiquities, and the New York Times.

His articles mainly highlighted the Miami experience from an insider's perspective as he often wrote about the city's prolific nightlife and celebrity culture; its many civic scandals, local breaking news stories, and thriving businesses; and profiles on esteemed Miamians, such as Edie Beale of Grey Gardens. He continued to document the city's social scene right up until his death in 2022.

María Antonia Avilés Casanova was born in Cuba in 1912. She was a daughter of José M. Avilés and Rosa Casanova, aristocratic and wealthy family of Cienfuegos, Cuba. Later, the family relocated to Havana.

Her mother, Rosa Casanova Avilés fluently spoke English, French and Spanish. She raised her family in a bilingual environment. One of her children, Marianita, as everybody used to call her, spoke English and Spanish too. She graduated from Ruston Academy, in Havana during the 40s. Marianita liked to do art work, and her brother José liked to do art work as well. They liked music and all related to the art world. they were artists. Some of their works are listed in this collection. After she graduated from Ruston Academy, Marianita started to work in some libraries in Havana and then as a hostess at the Hilton Hotel.

Marianita never got married. As well as many Cubans, she left Cuba when Fidel Castro seized the power in Cuba in 1959. She landed at Miami International Airport during the 60s as a Cuban exile and immediately she started to work at the Archdioceses of Miami. Marianita was the assistant of Monsignor Orlando Fernández at Saint Francis of Sales, Miami Beach, Florida, and later, she worked for the Youth Center. She was a deeply religious person. She was involved in several activities related with the church. She also worked with Archbishop Edward McCarthy and Monsignor Bryan Walsh, helping the children who arrived from Cuba during 1960.

Marianita lived serving and helping people. She spent her last years in Miami, Florida where she died in 1997.