Florida Memorial collection

Collection

Florida Memorial collection

• 1896-1996 (Creation)

13.33 linear feet (7 record storage boxes, 5 flat boxes)

This collection contains periodicals, memorabilia, correspondence, ephemera, promotional materials, event programs, booklets, reports, photographs, scrapbooks, music sheets, realia, vinyl records, and other materials documenting South Florida history. Most of the materials pertain in particular to Miami Beach and notable figures to its history, such as Hy Gardner, Paul M. Bruun, Albert Pick, and former Miami Beach mayors Kenneth Oka and Herbert Frink. The collection also features photographs and materials from past beauty pageants held in Miami Beach.

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. Please contact asc.library@miami.edu to request materials from this collection.

Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from Special Collections.

• English

• Latin

Collection processed by Yvette Yurubi, Processing Archivist with Graduate Assistant Vanessa Rodrigues Barcelos da Silva, 06-12-25.

• Miami (Fla.) -- History
• Miami Beach (Fla.)
• Miami Beach (Fla.) -- Description and travel
• Miami Beach (Fla.) -- History

• Programs (documents)
• Promotional materials
• Correspondence
• Audiovisual materials
• Scores (documents for music)
• Scrapbooks
• Photographs
• Brochures
• Periodicals
• Periodicals » Newspapers
• Newsletters
• Periodicals » Magazines (periodicals)
• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Ephemera
• Receipts (financial records)