Elementos de identidade
Nome e localização da entidade custodiadora
Nível de descrição
Coleção
Título
Munroe Family Papers
Data(s)
- 1903-1979 (Produção)
Dimensão
21 Boxes
Nome do produtor
História biográfica
Ralph Middleton "Commodore" Munroe, avid yachtsman, successful businessman, and celebrated patriarch of the Munroe family, made Coconut Grove his home in the late 1800s. Munroe and his family moved to South Florida from Staten Island, New York, to provide a more beneficial environment for his wife, Eva Maelia Hewitt, who suffered from tuberculosis. Unfortunately, both his wife and daughter succumbed to illness and died shortly after their move to Miami.
Munroe subsequently split his time between Staten Island and the Grove, often staying at the Peacock family hotel, The Bay View House, later known as the Peacock Inn. Several years before the turn of the century he bought land recognized today as the Barnacle State Historic Park, where he built his permanent home. Munroe also founded the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club, and through his continual enjoyment of sailing and boating life, met his second wife, Jessie Wirth. They had two children, Wirth and Patty.
The Commodore's passion for the sea was only matched by his interest in photographing. Munroe's constant recording of the beauty of Miami with his camera provides an invaluable and lasting visual record of the time and place. The Ralph M. Munroe Family Papers consists of letters, diaries, household accounts, journals, and photographs chronicling the activities of one of South Florida's earliest families. Among the holdings are, the typescript of the popular autobiography, The Commodore's Story, as well as diaries written by Patty Munroe detailing South Florida "happenings." Photographs offer at look at South Florida scenic sites during the first three decades of the twentieth century.
Elementos de conteúdo e estrutura
Âmbito e conteúdo
The collection includes correspondence, logbooks, photographs albums, slides, and diaries pertaining to various members of the Munroe Family who settled in Coconut Grove, Florida.
Sistema de arranjo
Condições de acesso e uso dos elementos
Condições de acesso
The collection is open for research.
Acesso físico
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.
Acesso técnico
Condiçoes de reprodução
University of Miami does not own copyright. It is incumbent on the user to obtain copyright from the original creator.
Idiomas do material
- inglês
Escrita do material
Notas ao idioma e script
Instrumentos de descrição
Instrumento de pesquisa gerado
Elementos de aquisição e avaliação
História custodial
Fonte imediata de aquisição
Informações de avaliação, seleção e eliminação
Ingressos adicionais
Elementos de materiais relacionados
Existência e localização de originais
Existência e localização de cópias
Material arquivístico relacionado
Ralph M. Munroe Family Papers, 1882-1995
Ralph M. Munroe Family Papers (Digital Collection)
The Commodore's Story: Early Miami History (Digital Exhibit)
Alan Crockwell collection, 1873-1996
Information about related materials is available at Everglades Digital Library : Everglades Biographies, Ralph Middleton Munroe http://everglades.fiu.edu/reclaim/bios/munroe.htm.
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Fontes utilizadas
Pontos de acesso
Pontos de acesso - Assuntos
Pontos de acesso - Locais
Pontos de acesso - Nomes
- Munroe, Ralph, 1851-1933 (Assunto)
- Munroe, Ralph, 1851-1933 -- Family (Assunto)