Identity elements
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Collection
Title
Eugene Provenzo collection
Date(s)
- 1978-1994 (Creation)
Extent
3 boxes (1 document case and 2 flat audio-visual boxes)
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1949 in Buffalo, New York, Dr. Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. was a professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Miami from 1976 to 2013. He earned his Master's degree in History from Washington University in 1974 and his Ph.D. in Philosophy and History of Education from Washington University’s Graduate Institute of Education in 1976.
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
The Eugene Provenzo Collection contains a manuscript by Provenzo and William E. Brown, titled "From Ice to Snow to Flowers and Fruit: Jesse Wooley's 1896 Tour of Florida." The manuscript by Provenzo and Brown aimed to reproduce Wooley's lantern-slide lecture with the original lecture notes, as well as provide a historical analysis of lantern slide lectures and a biographical essay on Jesse Wooley. Jesse Wooley was a professional photographer from New York who visited Florida in 1896. Wooley used his trip to create a stereopticon or lantern-slide lecture about Florida, and several of these lantern slides were colored. The collection also contains correspondence regarding the manuscript, duplicate pages of the manuscript, research documents and notebooks, photographs and photographic slides taken of the surviving lantern slides, clippings, articles, and other documents.
Furthermore, the collection includes oral histories stored within CD-Rs, microcassettes, and audiocassettes, originally recorded for the "Voices of Andrew" website and some transcriptions for the interviews. This website provided an online archive of 66 oral history interviews with people who lived through Hurricane Andrew and experienced the subsequent recovery process in the first months after the storm.
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use elements
Conditions governing access
This collection is open for research. Some oral histories may be restricted. Please contact the Special Collections department at asc.library@miami.edu for more information.
Physical access
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.
Technical access
Conditions governing reproduction
Eugene Provenzo 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. Patrons and researchers do not have permission to quote or publish content from interviews that do not have formal release forms.
Languages of the material
- English
Scripts of the material
- Latin
Language and script notes
Finding aids
Generated finding aid
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Custodial history
Immediate source of acquisition
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information
Accruals
Related materials elements
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
The "Voices of Andrew" website can still be found on the internet archive.
Related archival materials
Related descriptions
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Specialized notes
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Description control element
Rules or conventions
Sources used
Archivist's note
Finding aid updated by Yvette Yurubi, Processing Archivist, October 2025.
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Brown, William E. (Subject)
- Provenzo, Eugene F. (Subject)
- Wooley, Jesse Sumner (Subject)
Genre access points
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Lantern slides
- Correspondence » Letters (correspondence)
- Manuscripts (documents)
- Negatives (photographs)
- Notebooks
- Photographs
- Slides (Photographs)
- Sound recordings » Audiocassettes
- Sound recordings » Audiocassettes » Microcassettes
- Sound recordings » CD-Rs
- Transcriptions (documents)