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The Felipe Rivera papers contain fourteen manuscript theater scripts written by Cuban writer Felipe Rivera.

The Felipe Préstamo collection consists of 75 slides of Cuba, including the slides of the following seven villages founded by Diego Velázquez de Cuellar: Havana, Baracoa, Bayamo, Santiago de Cuba, Sancti Spiritu, Puerto Principe and Trinidad, which were taken from the photographs and postcards held in Cuban Heritage Collection.

The papers of Federico Sánchez Villalba contain letters, photographs, clippings costume and stage designs, as well as fashion designs and some original art work.

The Federico García Lorca papers contain correspondence from Spanish writer and intellectual Federico García (1898-1936) Lorca to Cuban writer and diplomat José María Chacón y Calvo (1892-1969) and photographs of García Lorca while visiting Chacón y Calvo in Cuba during the 1930s.

Transcripts of the letters contained in this collection can be found in the book by Carlos Ripoll, Cuba en Lorca (2007). All correspondence and photographs in this collection have been digitized and is available in the University of Miami Digital Collections.

FAULTY PRODUCTS 1978-80. Small archive of official records from the Independent Label, "Faulty Products." Various concert fliers, correspondence between owners of the record company, and newspaper articles from different sources on the bands signed by the label. This label was established by Miles Copeland initially to distribute a welter of new musical talent that emerged in 1977, in the period of "punk rock," via its three in-house record labels, Illegal Records, Step Forward Records, and Deptford Fun City Records.

The collection consists of 108 negatives mostly taken from materials held in our archives to be reproduced for exhibit "Festival of Faith," which took place in the Archdiocese of Miami, December 4-9, 1991.

Fashion Project is a curatorial initiative situated in Bal Harbour, Florida, dedicated to creating exhibits where fashion is displayed as art pieces for spectators to appreciate the varied elements of design from modern couture to historical gowns and costumes. This collection currently contains pamphlets, flyers, programs, and catalogs created by Fashion Project for their events and exhibits.

This collection houses archival materials pertaining to the history of fashion on a global level and currently features 65 issues of the popular French publication, Art-Goût-Beauté, from the years 1921 to 1932 and assorted French clippings and pamphlets.

This collection documents the initiatives and issues surrounding local farmworkers in the United States, who are often comprised of migrant workers from the Caribbean, Mexico, Central, and South America. One of the topics covered within includes the ¡Que Calor! campaign organized by WeCount, which fights for the rights and health concerns of farmworkers who are often subject to dangerous heat levels in Florida.

Materials include periodicals, fliers, programs, pamphlets, buttons, clothing, and other ephemera pertaining to various local organizations, such as the aforementioned WeCount, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, the Farmworker Association of Florida, and the Student/Farmworker Alliance.

"The Fanny Kemble Playbill Collection is a collection of 28 playbills from 1829-1832, comprising of her years on the English stage and including her first performance on any stage. Fanny Kemble (Frances Ann Kemble, 1809-1893), the daughter of the actors Charles and Marie Kemble, was born in London on November 27, 1809. She made her first appearance on the stage when she appeared as Juliet in her father's production of "Romeo and Juliet" on October 5, 1829. Fanny was a great success, and this role was followed by several others in her father's Covent-Garden Theatre. She played all the principal women's parts, notably Portia, Beatrice, and Lady Teazle. Most of the performances were at Theatre Royal Covent-Garden with a few few performances at Theatre Royal Edinburgh where she performed with her brother on a tour in June of 1830." -Golden Legend, Inc.

The collection consists of meeting agendas, legislation, faculty manual, and memoranda generated by University of Miami's Faculty Senate and collected by representatives of Otto G. Richter Library from the 1990s to present.  Only the authorized personnel by the University Archives can access the materials.

Frank Warren O'Reilly was a former music critic for the Miami News and founding president of the Miami-based Chopin Foundation. The F. Warren O'Reilly Papers consist of newspaper clippings of articles written by O'Reilly, correspondence and photographs.

This collection contains several contemporary exhibit catalogs from other universities around the United States with concentrations in their libraries and Special Collections departments.

A collection of photographs taken by various attendees of the protests against the usage of the detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz," which was built on the Big Cypress National Preserve in the Everglades in 2025. This detention center was constructed to house thousands of detainees and has faced several legal challenges on account of its location on land that serves as a vital ecosystem to native Floridian flora and fauna and the lack of preliminary environmental site reviews prior to its construction.

The Evelyn Frink Scrapbook documents the activities of the Miami Beach garden clubs that led to the construction of the Miami Beach Garden Center and Conservatory. The clippings, photographs, reports, speeches and correspondence capture Mrs. Frink’s work as chairman of the Garden Center Committee from its inception to the inauguration of the garden center and conservatory.

Born in New York City, Evan H. Rhodes (1929-2010) is a noted Key West-based author who penned many novels over the course of his lifetime, including the novel, The Prince of Central Park, which had been adapted into both a feature-length film and a musical. He graduated from New York University with a Master of Arts degree and then worked as a screen reader for Columbia Pictures and Universal International before settling down in Key West to write novels. He was also a member of the Author's League of America, the NYU Alumni Federation, and the Library of the British Museum and had exhibited his own sculptures at the Washington Square Gallery in New York City.

His papers contain a wide arrange of material documenting his noteworthy literary career, including manuscripts, playscripts, drafts, notes, research files, promotional materials, news clippings, reviews, correspondence, poetry, audio-visual materials, photographs, and ephemera.

The papers document professional activities of Spanish playwright Eva Canel.  The materials include correspondence, photocopies of various biographies of Eva Canel and articles about her, newspaper clippings, and theater programs.