Collection ASM0051 - Allison B. Curry collection

ASM0051

University of Miami Special Collections

Collection

Allison B. Curry collection

• 1944-1954 (Creation)

1 Box

Allison B. Curry, Jr. served as Director of Public Service for Coral Gables from 1934 to 1939. Between 1939 to 1942 he was promoted to city manager. In 1942 he left to hold this same post for the city of Miami. From 1946 to the end of his career he was Director of the Dade County Port Authority as well as of the Miami International Airport.

The Allison B. Curry collection contains diplomas, photographs, a brochure on the metric system, two metric rulers (one in a leather sleeve with his name in ink), metric converters, a lighter with his initials engraved and a case, and a cartoon of Curry signed by city employees.

This collection is open for research.

Items from this collection are kept on-campus and may be requested from the first floor Kislak Center in the Otto G. Richter Library at University of Miami.

Allison B. Curry Collection Finding Aid © 2009 University of Miami. All rights reserved. Requests to reproduce or publish materials from this collection should be directed to asc.library@miami.edu.

• English

• Miami (Florida)

• Miami International Airport (Subject)
• Curry, Allison B. (Subject)

• Brochures
• Cartoons (humorous images)
• Diplomas
• Lighters (fire-making equipment)
• Photographs
• Rulers (measuring devices)