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University of Miami Student Publications Board records
This collection contains materials either created by or related to the University of Miami Student Publications Board. Materials include memos, minutes, training documents, newspapers, and policies and procedures manuals.
Student Publications Board
University of Miami Service Employee International Union (SEIU) and Unicco records
This collection documents the nine-week worker's strike and protest by University of Miami's janitors who were a part of the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) in 2006. The collection contains audio-visual materials (CDs and DVDs), correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, newsletters, posters, memos, and contracts.
Service Employee International Union (SEIU)
University of Miami Office of Human Relations records
The University of Miami Office of Human Relations records contains correspondence, schedules, annual reports, workshop information, news articles, memos, contracts, teacher profiles, budget documents, minutes, and other related administrative documents.
University of Miami Office of Human Relations
University of Miami News Bureau records
This University of Miami News Bureau records include memoranda, press releases, clippings, correspondence, notes, and other materials on a wide range of activities, programs, and individuals associated with the University of Miami.
University of Miami Office of University Relations
Univeristy of Miami Married Student Housing records
The collection consists of memorandums, correspondence, and a brochure written by the Housing Office of the University of Miami for married students from 1967 to 1972. It also includes several issues of “Married Student News” written by the Married Student Association of the university from 1971 to 1972.
University of Miami Department of Housing and Residential Life
The Spencer Family papers contains a number of personal items pertaining to various members of the Spencer family, in the form of books, clippings, journals, manuscripts, memorandums, news bulletins, newspapers, notebooks, pamphlets, periodicals, photographs, poetry, postcards, reports, and scrapbooks.
This collection contains procedure manuals, membership lists, correspondence, memos, and other administrative documents pertaining to the Society of the Sigma Xi at the University of Miami.
Society of the Sigma Xi
Dr. Ralph Harris was a University of Miami carillonneur and member of the Iron Arrow Honor Society. His papers consist of awards, certificates, letters, reports, a commemorative plate, press releases, notebooks, and programs of his carillon performances.
This collection consists of one of the historical records of the University of Miami Beta Upsilon Circle of the Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society. It includes photographs, rosters, nomination forms and related materials collected by former advisor Dr. Ivan Hoy.
Omicron Delta Kappa Society
Miami Snowplow Company collection
This collection contains news clippings, periodicals, reports, memos, correspondence, minutes, notes, research, and transcriptions pertaining to the Miami Snowplow Company.
Meyer, Lynn
Dr. Melanie Rosborough was a language professor and administrator for the University of Miami from the time she joined the faculty as Professor of German in 1927. The Melanie Rosborough Papers document her academic career, activities with professional academic organizations, and University of Miami religious organizations and activities.
Rosborough, Melanie
The collection contains the personal papers of Louis J. Hector, in the form of clippings, invitations, letters, memorandum, notebooks, photographs, and reports. Prominently represented are files pertaining to the University of Miami, the Southeast Banking Corporation, Pan American World Airways, Inc., the Civil Aeronautics Board, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Gallery, the National Humanities Center, and the Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Hector, Louis J.
Library Fiscal Management Grant records
This collection contains applications, reports, memos, and other information regarding grants made to the Richter Library by the IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services).
Institute of Museum and Library Services
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.
Corrington, Julian Dana, 1891-1979
Dr. José Agustín Balseiro (1900-1991) was an award-winning author, poet, and scholar of Latin American Studies and Hispanic literature. He was also a professor of Hispanic Literature at the University of Miami from 1946 to 1967.
Throughout his career, Dr. Balseiro exhibited a strong interest in Latin American and Hispanic-American studies, Latin American and Spanish literature, and Puerto Rican history and literature. His papers, donated to the University of Miami, reflect all of these interests and range in date from his earliest activities as a writer in Spain to his final days working as a consultant to the University of Miami Libraries starting in 1974. Much of the content consists of correspondence, clippings, typescripts, and periodicals in which Balseiro’s writings were featured. Also included is sheet music belonging to his father, Rafael Balseiro, who was a Puerto Rican composer.
Of special note are three bronze medallions: (1) from the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, commemorating el primer Centenario del Natalicio de Luiz Muñoz Rivera (the centennial of the birth of Luiz Muñoz Rivera); (2) from the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, commemorating el Centenario de la Abolición de la Esclavidud in Puerto Rico (the centennial of the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico); and (3) from the University of Panama commemorating the first 25 years of the University’s existence.
Balseiro, José Agustín, 1900-1991
The Jean P. Lesperance Papers consist of correspondence, articles, book manuscripts, and newspaper clippings relating to the merging field of management studies. Lesperance joined the University of Miami faculty in 1947and taught management courses. He later served as the director of the Time and Motion Study Laboratory.
Lesperance, Jean Paul
The Fuchs Baking Co. bakery in Miami, colloquially known as the Holsum Bakery, was founded in 1913 and closed in 1994. The Holsum Bakery Collection contains reports, minutes, certificates, brochures, appraisal reports, and other official files, documents, and memorabilia pertaining to the bakery.
Henri Verbinnen was a diplomat at the Belgian consulate in New York, supervisor for the Florida Works Progress Administration (WPA), and independent essayist. During the years after the Great Depression, he wrote a number of essays and letters on New Deal unemployment and relief policies. The collection contains letters, notebooks, drafts, essays, reports, memorandums, statistical reports, sketches, photographs and clippings.
Verbinnen, Henri
The Harold Bauer Papers consist primarily of correspondence between the University of Miami School of Music and Bauer regarding his master piano classes. The letters are primarily between Bauer and Bertha Foster, Dean of the School of Music until 1944, and Joseph Tarpley, School of Music Secretary from 1944 to 1951 and Assistant Dean until 1967. Correspondence files also include memoranda amongst University administration regarding Bauer's classes as well as with prospective students.
The collection also contains a few photographs, concert programs, and clippings.
Bauer, Harold, 1873-1951
The H. Franklin Williams Papers provide an extensive record of the activities of the Economic Opportunity Program, Inc. (EOPI), a non-profit corporation established to provide "through governmental or private means economic opportunity for the citizens and residents of Dade County, Florida and to further assist in the war against poverty...". The program coordinated governmental units and local agencies involved in implementing the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. Williams was a professor of history and administrator at the University of Miami from 1939 to 1972.
Williams, H. Franklin