Identity elements
Reference code
ASM0051
Name and location of repository
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Collection
Title
Allison B. Curry collection
Date(s)
- 1944-1954 (Creation)
- 1944-1954 (Creation)
Extent
1 Box
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Scope and content
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.
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This collection is open for research.
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Conditions governing reproduction
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.
Languages of the material
- English
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Name access points
- Miami International Airport (Subject)
- Curry, Allison B. (Subject)