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The Bob Simms collection documents the life and activities of Robert H. Simms in the black communities in Coconut Grove and Miami and reflects his work with the Community Relations Board and the Defense Race Relations Institute. The collection also contains  campaign materials from Leah Simms, the first African American female judge in the state of Florida, and the "Glory in the Grove" photographs of people and events at the George Washington Carver elementary and high schools in Coconut Grove before desegregation. A final component of the collection includes photographs, correspondence and clippings of General "Chappie" James and his family. General James was the first four star African American General and married Dorothy Watkins.

This collection contains documents compiled by the Metropolitan Dade County Transit Program, including environmental impact reports, site evaluations, programs for transit improvement, and research and documents pertaining to handicapped and elderly passengers.

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.

A collection of dissertations, research, theses, prints, periodicals, clippings, research, grant awards, correspondence, artists' book materials, and ephemera. Most material is contained within unbound scrapbook pages from scrapbooks that had been compiled by artist Dorothy S. Krause, who works with and studies book arts.

Gareth and Janet Dunleavy were historians of Irish literature and culture. The Gareth and Janet Dunleavy Collection was donated by Gareth and Janet Dunleavy in memory of Bernard Benstock, a colleague who served the University of Miami in many capacities.

The collection contains typescripts and articles by Gareth and Janet Dunleavy, as well as research materials for projects by both authors. Prominently featured are research materials on Mary Lavin, an Irish short story and novella writer who died in 1996. Of special interest among these research materials are copies of Lavin's working manuscripts, obtained by Professor Janet Dunleavy in the 1970s with the permission of Mary Lavin. Janet Dunleavy had planned a critical study of Lavin's work based on these materials, but had abandoned the idea. The collection also contains notes, letters, and other documents assembled during Gareth and Janet Dunleavy's preparation of their Douglas Hyde: A Maker of Modern Ireland (1991) and O'Connor Papers (1977).

The F. Charles Ruegg Papers consists primarily of correspondence, photographs, and notes from Ruegg’s employment with Pan American World Airways from 1940 to 1951. These materials primarily document his experience with Pan Am in Africa (PAA Africa) during World War II.

This collection includes various types of documents pertaining to the historical and cultural production taking place in the Caribbean. Materials include correspondence, diaries, ledgers, property transactions including slave registers, reports, typescripts, from the various islands of the Caribbean such as Antigua, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts, St. Christopher, Trinidad and Tobago from the 16th to the present. The collection is further enhanced by the acquisition of antique maps from cartographers such as Linschoten and Sanson.

The Julia P. Herzberg, Ph.D. collection contains artist portfolios, clippings, and visual arts files.

The collection also contains an interview between Julia P. Herzberg and Helena (Holzer) Benitez, former wife of artist Wifredo Lam from 1944 to 1950. The interview took place on February 7, 1990, at 1125 Park Avenue, New York, NY, then home of Julia P. Herzberg. The discussion centers on Helena's memories of Wifredo’s paintings, his practice, their cultural life in Havana, the artist’s family, his relationship with Lydia Cabrera, and his relationship to Afro-Cubanism.

Copyright to the interview is held by Julia P. Herzberg. The interview has been digitized and can be accessed here: https://miami.app.box.com/s/sbh6jn27iqx0ooovarbt7ofw68kqmv0r/folder/308218924469.

The Dante B. Fascell Congressional Papers contain legislative documents, government administrative records, periodicals, correspondence, photographs, film, video tapes, sound recordings, and memorabilia, all documenting 38 years of his involvement in United States politics. The collection also represents a unique resource for study and research relating to the history of South Florida from 1955-1993. Topics of research include American legislative history, Dante B. Fascell's committee assignments, Florida projects, the growth and development of South Florida, the impact of foreign affairs and international relations on the United States, and United States relations with Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua.

The Walter Tennyson Swingle Collection contains research material and correspondence of Walter T. Swingle as well as translations and correspondence of Michael J. Hagerty. The Swingle portion of the collection is comprised of his articles, manuscripts, diaries, and most of Swingle's correspondence between 1885 and 1951.

The correspondence gives an overview of his botanical and plant introduction work as well as his personal life and travels. The bulk of the correspondence are letters from distinguished colleagues such as Herbert J. Webber, Dr. Beverly T. Galloway, W.A. Kellerman and others from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Also included in this group are correspondence between Swingle and David G. Fairchild, noted Florida naturalist and one of the men who conceived of a sub-tropical garden in Florida and for who Fairchild Tropical Garden in Miami, Florida is named. Their correspondence details an account of their collaborative work and friendship.

Swingle's research material includes notes, notebooks, and large number of first accounts of citrus in the Original Citrus Literature, containing a number of articles by Carolus Linnaeus.

Of special interest to the University of Miami is material dealing with Swingle's tenure as Consultant in Tropical Botany at the University, as well as some interesting material dealing with his U.S.D.A. work in Brazil in the 1930's.

The Hagerty portion of the collection consists most importantly of translations made by Hagerty of Chinese accounts on botany for the Swingle's work in the Department of Agriculture. It includes a very large translation of the Chinese accounts of citrus from the Chinese Imperial Encyclopedia which is over 500 pages long and very important to Swingle's study of citrus. Also in this portion are found a very large amount of correspondence between Hagerty and Swingle which details most of their work together for the U.S.D.A.

The Ross Beiler papers include published studies and research files on politics in south Florida, 1958-68.  The papers, which include polls, articles and papers, newspaper clippings, political advertisements, correspondence, course outlines, and other materials, consist of five series.

Thomas J. Wood was professor of government at the University of Miami. The Wood Papers document the move to consolidate the city of Miami and Dade county governments.  Legislation introduced in 1945 represented the first effort to combine local governments and alleviate conflicts and confusion resulting from overlapping city and county functions.  The various municipalities, however, opposed the bill.  Although a similar effort was made in 1947, no change occurred until 1953 when the Metropolitan Miami Municipal Board organized to draft a new plan for municipal and county government in Dade County.  As the Board's initial step, it hired the University of Miami Government Department to supervise a survey of Greater Miami governments. The university contracted a firm of professional government consultants, the Public Administration Service of Chicago, to begin research.  Members of the Government Department reviewed the findings and reported to the 3M board.  A special Charter Board of the  3M board drafted a charter and legislation to reorganize local government and initiated a campaign to promote metro government.

The Wood papers include political advertisements, correspondence, minutes of meetings, clippings, transcripts of radio broadcasts, survey forms and government reports.

Dr. I. A. Richards (1893-1979) was an influential English literary critic and rhetorician. His books on literary criticism, especially The Meaning of Meaning, Principles of Literary Criticism, Practical Criticism, and The Philosophy of Rhetoric, are taken to be founding influences for the New Criticism. Richards is also considered one of the founders of the contemporary study of literature in English.

The I. A. Richards Collection at the Special Collections department contains a large selection of Richards' work in language learning and literacy, in the form of textbooks, workbooks, brochures, audio-visual materials, index cards, phonograph records, and slides.

Dr. Behram Kursunoglu was the Chairman of the Board for the Center for Theoretical Studies at the University of Miami. The papers consist of letters of communication between Kursunoglu and the professors that lectured at the Center to faculty and students, research plans, video-cassettes and audio-cassettes of the lectures, and publications containing the text of the lectures. Many of the lectures concerned high energy physics, theoretical chemistry, neurosciences, nuclear physics, and issues pertaining to energy problems. Among notable participants were the physicists and Nobel Laureates Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Robert Oppenheimer, Francis Crick, and Murray Gell-Mann; the member of the Florida House of Representatives Dante Fascell; and Richard Kennedy, the U.S. Ambassador At Large for Nuclear Energy.

The following is a list of visiting professors that are represented in the collection:

(*=Nobel Laureate

The numbers after the names signify the number of files. )

*Nikolai Basov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Lebedev Institute

*Hans A. Bethe, Cornell University

Gregory Breit, Yale University

Nikolai Bogolubov, Soviety Academy of Sciences, Moscow University

*Walter H. Brattain, Columbia University

Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Cambridge University

H.B.G. Casimir, Phillips, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Britton Chance, University of Pennsylvania

*Leon Cooper, Brown University

Jean Couture, Former Sec. of Energy for France

*Francis H.C. Crick, Salk Institute

Richard Dalitz, Oxford University

*Hans G. Dehmelt, University of Washington

*Max Delbruck, of California Tech

*P.A.M. Dirac (16), Cambridge University

Freeman Dyson (2), Institute for Advance Studies, Princeton

*John C. Eccles, University of Buffalo

*Gerald Edelman, Rockefeller University, NY

*Manfred Eigen, Max Planck Institute Gottingen

*Albert Einstein (2), Institue for Advance Studies, Princeton

*Richard Feynman, of California Tech

*Paul Flory, Stanford University

*Murray Gell-Mann, of California Tech.

*Donald Glaser, Berkeley, UniversityCal

Thomas Gold, Cornell University

Marvin Goldberger, Princeton University

Gerson Goldhaber, Berkeley, University of California

Maurice Goldhaber, Berkeley, University of California

*Gerhard Herberg, NRC of Canada

*Robert Hofstadter, Stanford University

Fred Hoyle, Cambridge University

Erdal Inonu, Ankaro University, Turkey, Currently Foreign Minister of Turkey

Leopold Infeld, Warsaw, Poland

D. Ivanenko, Moscow University

Max Jammer, Bar Ilan University, Israel

Nicolas Kemmer, University Edinburgh

Richard Kennedy, US Ambassador At Large for Nuclear Energy

*Tjallinq Koopmans, Yale University

Alan D. Krisch, University of Michigan

*Willis Lamb, Jr. (2), Yale University

Joseph E. Lannutti, Fla. State University

*Leon Lederman, Ferni Laboratory

Benjamin W. Lee, Ferni Laboratory

J.G. Linhart, ISKRA, Italy

Bernard Lipman (2), Harvard University

Franklin Long, Yale University

Sydney Meshkov, US Bureau of Standards

Elliott Montroll, Rochester University, NY

*Robert S. Mulliken, University of Chicago

Yoichiro Nambu, University of Chicago

*Louis Neel, Grenoble University, France

Kazuhiko Nishijima, Chuo University, Japan

*Lars Onsager, Yale University

Robert Oppenheimer, Former Director of Institute for Advance Studies, and principal architect of the first US atomic bomb

Henry Primakoff(2), University of Pennsylvania

*A.M. Prokhorov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Lebedev Institute

*Theodore I. Rabi, Columbia University

George Rathjens, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

*Norman F. Ramsey, Harvard University

Dixie Lee Ray, Former Governor of the State of Washington, former Chairman of U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

Frederick Reines, University of California, Irvine

Tullio Regge, University Torino, Italy

*Abdus Salam (3), Director, Int'l Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

Edwin E. Salpeter, Cornell University

*Arthur Shavlow, Stanford University

*Julian Schwinger (2), Harvard University

Dennis W. Sciama, Cambridge University

*Glenn T. Seaborg, Former Chairman of US Atomic Energy Commission

Frederick Seitz, Rockafellar University, Former President of the National Academy of Sciences

Robert Serber, Colombia University

Lord Charles P. Snow (4), distinguished author, London

E.C.G. Sudarshan, University of Texas

Edward Teller (4), Known as the father of the hydrogen bomb

*Charles H. Townes, University ofCalifornia at Berkeley

Stanislav Ulam, University Colorado

Georges A.Vendryes, One of the principal architects of the Nuclear Energy Program for France

*George Wald, Harvard University

*Steven Weinberg, University of Texas

Victor F. Weisskopf, Massachusetts Institue of Technology

John A. Wheeler, Princeton University

*Eugene P. Wigner (3), Princeton University

*Kenneth Wilson, Cornell University

Lord Solly Zuckerman, former Chief Scientist to British Government, and distinguished zoologist

Vladimir Zworykin (3), Inventor of TV picture tub, Honorary Vice President of RCA

The American Association of University Women records contains the records of the Florida Division from the years 1928 to 1991, in the form of minutes, reports, correspondence, press releases, charters, scrapbooks, and other documentation.

A collection of photographs, negatives, prints, CD-Rs, and external hard-drives full of images taken by photographer, Lawson Corbett Little (1945-2023). Also included are some copies of Western Beat Entertainment newsletter, for which Little regularly provided photographs.

The papers of A.S. Houghton (1866-1948) numbering approximately 4500 items consist of articles, printed matter, newspaper clippings, by-laws, legislative matter, and pamphlets. The material extends from 1905 to 1948 with the bulk of the papers falling within the period of 1929 to 1948.

The papers deal primarily with Augustus Houghton's work as a conservationist.  The material is broken down into the different organizations with which he was involved.  There is a large section of material dealing with the American Game Association, the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks, and the

Camp Fire Club of America but they are not a major part of the collection because Houghton corresponded and kept files on a diverse number of conservation and wildlife organizations.

The correspondence to and from August S. Houghton is varied and he had several principal correspondents, all of whom shared with him their interest in conservation.  His principal correspondents were: John B. Burnham, President of the American Game Protective Association, which later became the American Game Association; Carlos Avery, President of the American Game Association; Seth Gordon, President of the American Game Association; William Greely, leading member of the American Game Association; Erl Roman, Fishing Editor of the Miami Herald; Merlin Mitchell, Executive Secretary, Florida State Fish and Game Association and later secretary of the Florida Wildlife Federation; Jay N. (Ding) Darling, famous cartoonist and leading Florida conservationist; Dr. W.T. Hornaday, Zoological Gardens, N.Y.; Lithgow Osborne, Conservation Commissioner, State of New York; Raymond Torrey, Camp Fire Club of America; and Karl Frederick, President of the New York State Conservation Council.  Houghton also corresponded with F.G. Walton Smith, Director of the University of Miami's Marine Laboratory (now the Rosentiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences) and with Spessard L. Holland, Governor of Florida in the early 1940's.

The Julian Corrington Papers contain teaching and academic files concerning the University of Miami in addition to materials on scientific research and literature. Class records and course materials, dated 1944-63, include syllabi, memos, lecture notes, book lists, lists of research topics, correspondence with students and student recommendations. Other correspondence and memos, relating to the Biology Department discuss such topics as the curriculum, course requirements, faculty meetings and building plans. University of Miami "faculty notices," and "university memoranda" cover announcements of library news, information on education, and the Science Department. The records also contain publications such as "Self Portrait of a University," and a program from the 1962 dedication of the Otto G. Richter Library. Correspondence with faculty of other universities discusses the merits of general introductory science courses versus more specialized instruction.

Several files contain manuscripts and correspondence dealing with publications. Other files include materials on the electron microscope and include photographs taken through the microscope, reprints of articles and news clippings relating to the microscope. "Field Check Lists," dated 1917-21, and field trip reports record observations on the sea coast at Georgetown University. Photographs document trips led by Corrington. Reprints and publications on various scientific topics as well as and bulletins, newsletters, and programs from various scientific and scholarly organizations are included in files. Additional files of particular interest contain newspaper clippings and literature from various organizations on eugenics, genetics and the teaching of evolution. Corrington collected these materials, dated 1920-44, for inclusion in class lectures.

The personal papers of Frederick H. Koch, dramatist and educator, were donated to the University of Miami Archives by his son Fred H. Koch Jr., a Professor in Drama here at the University of Miami from 1939 to 1977.  The collection was received in the early 1950's.  Frederick H. Koch was a famous dramatist and gained fame from the founding of two major college theatre troupes as well as through his involvement in the production of native American folk drama.

The Frederick H. Koch Collection contains the personal papers of Frederick H. Koch and material he collected throughout his lifetime.  The material extends from 1823 to 1947, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period of time between 1905 and 1944.  The bulk of the collection is composed of theatre programs collected by Koch.  These come mainly from New York but there is a good selection of theatre programs from other parts of the United States.  Many of these programs date prior to Koch's birth.

The personal papers are composed mainly of material from Koch's work as an English and drama professor at the University of North Dakota (1905-1918) and the University of North Carolina (1918-1944), including a large number of folk plays written by his students.

The correspondence in the collection is mainly correspondence within the Koch family, including many letters between Koch and his four sons: Robert, Fred Jr., Bill, and George.

Of special interest to the University of Miami is a folder containing material related to the University and the University of Miami Playmakers founded by Fred H. Koch Jr. in the 1940's.

The A. Curtis Wilgus Papers document the pioneering efforts by historian and author A. Curtis Wilgus (1898-1981) in the area of Latin American studies and the emergence of "Pan Americanism." The correspondence, writings, research files, photographs and other materials also document the evolution of a trend in higher education during the 1920's and the 1970's, an increase in global awareness reflected in the introduction of "area studies" programs at many universities.