Hurricane Andrew collection

Collection

Hurricane Andrew collection

• 1992-1997 (Creation)

6 Boxes

The Hurricane Andrew collection contains two different series of materials regarding the 1992 hurricane.

Series I consists of photographs, writings, and artwork made by children representing their Hurricane Andrew experience. The majority of the materials are photographs, negatives, prints, photographic slides, writings about those photographs, and administrative documents from a project done at Southwood Middle School titled "The Eye of the Storm through the Eye of the Child." Administered and organized by Colette Stemple, a photography teacher at the school, the photographs depict damage done to their homes and their neighborhoods, and have accompanying text written by the children as well. The project was eventually on display in the Miami Art Museum one year after the landfall of Andrew, under the same name. Also included are drawings, poems, a bound volume titled "Hands On: The Day the Winds Came... Migrant Children Write About the Effects of Hurricane Andrew," reflections written by Caribbean Elementary School students, and a folder scrapbook on Hurricane Andrew's effects titled "In the Wake of Andrew."

Series II contains historic Miami Herald newspapers chronicling the Hurricane's impending landfall in South Florida, the actual landfall, and several weeks of the aftermath.

This collection is open for research.

Hurricane Andrew 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
• Spanish

Selected materials from this collection have been digitized.

https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/digital/collection/asm0610

• Children's art -- United States -- Exhibitions
• Hurricane Andrew, 1992
• Hurricane Andrew, 1992 -- Juvenile literature.
• Hurricane Andrew, 1992 -- Pictorial works
• Hurricane damage -- Florida -- Miami
• Poetry

• Miami Art Museum (Subject)
• Miami-Dade County School District (Fla.) (Subject)
• Stemple, Colette (Subject)

• Art
• Articles
• Correspondence » Letters (correspondence)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Negatives (photographs)
• Periodicals » Newspapers
• Periodicals
• Photocopies
• Photographs
• Reports
• Scrapbooks
• Slides (Photographs)