Orange Bowl Committee records

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Collection

Titre

Orange Bowl Committee records

Date(s)

  • 1932-2010 (Production)

Importance matérielle

182 Boxes

Nom du producteur

Notice biographique

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Portée et contenu

Conceived in 1932 by the original Orange Bowl Committee, the Orange Bowl was created as a popular tourism attraction for the New Year's Festival in Miami that would attract national publicity and bring more businesses and money to South Florida. This venture proved successful as the Orange Bowl celebration grew in both size and popularity, becoming a national extravaganza with their lavish parades, annual football games, and beauty pageants, all in an effort to create the "world's greatest half-time spectacle."

The first football game ever put on by the committee was in 1932 between the University of Miami Hurricanes and Manhattan College from New York City in what was then called the Festival of Palms Bowl. In 1935, the festival was renamed as the Orange Bowl and started featuring college football teams to participate based on their national rankings rather than offering a guaranteed position, and it was recognized by the NCAA as the first "official" Orange Bowl. The Orange Bowl stadium was created in 1937 to accommodate the game as well as the Miami Dolphins home games and several Super Bowls up until it was demolished in 2008, but it gained a prolific reputation as a local attraction during its lifespan in south Florida.

The Orange Bowl Records contains documents, financial and administrative files, scrapbooks, photographs, ephemera, pamphlets, newsclippings, audiovisual material, and 3D objects pertaining to the Orange Bowl Committee and their archives.

Mode de classement

The collection has been divided into 10 series:

Series I: Central Administrative Files
Series II: Organizational History and Overviews
Series III: Events
Series IV: Photographs
Series V: Audiovisual Material
Series VI: 3D Objects and Ephemera
Series VII: Graphic Material
Series VIII: Printed Material
Series IX: Music
Series X: Scrapbooks and Newspaper Clippings

Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation

Conditions d'accès

This collection is open for use. Access to Series I: Central Administrative Files, Sub-Series: Human Resources, Box 12 and 21 are currently restricted due to sensitive personnel information contained inside.

Accès physique

This collection is kept in an off-campus storage facility. Please contact Special Collections at asc.library@miami.edu with the boxes you are interested in prior to your visit, and allow up to 1 week for delivery of materials.

Accès technique

Conditions de reproduction

Requests to reproduce or publish materials from this collection should be directed to asc.library@miami.edu.

Langue des documents

  • anglais

Écriture des documents

  • latin

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Existence et lieu de conservation des copies

Selected materials from this collection have been digitized:

https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/digital/collection/asm0301/search

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Note de l'archiviste

This collection was initially processed by Emily Gibson (Visiting Archivist), 2015, then Yvette Yurubi (Archives Assistant), 2018-2019 with the assistance of student employees, Giulia Torrico, Daija Anderson, Sean Driscoll, Nazir Crump, Ryan Machuga, and Patrick Lacey.

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