Florida Photograph collection

Collection

Florida Photograph collection

• 1886-2000 (Creation)
• 1886-1950 (Creation)

10 Boxes

The Florida Photograph Collection contains a series of photographs and negatives depicting the state from 1886 to 1950. The content of these includes people, scenery, nature, infrastructure, historic areas and landmarks, housing, commerce, tourism, and aerial views. Cities photographed include, but are not limited to, Miami, Miami Beach, Coconut Grove, St. Augustine, Key West, Coral Gables. Also of particular notice are photographs of Seminole Indians and villages, and historic photographs by Ed Romer from the 1940s of lower income African-American housing from the Sign Company and Gulf State Properties, Inc. in Overtown (Miami).

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.

Florida Photograph 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

Selected materials from this collection have been digitized.

https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/digital/collection/asm0300

See also Richard B. Hoit Photograph Collection (ASM0636), and Michael L. Carlebach Photography Collection (ASM0530).

• Indigenous peoples » Indigenous peoples -- North America » Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Florida » Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Florida -- Seminoles » Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Florida -- Seminoles -- Pictorial works

• Overtown (Miami, Fla.)

• Negatives (photographs)
• Photographs