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Built works, unbuilt/schematic works, experimental architecture work, and reference materials created by, and about, Gordon Gilbert including preliminary sketches, construction drawings, construction photos, final photos, models, presentations, and publications.

An ongoing collection of zines added to the holdings of the University of Miami Libraries Special Collections. Zines are typically independent and self published booklets popular in underground subcultures. The first zines were fanzines, started in the early 20th century by science fiction fans documenting the genre. The format truly took off with the punk rock movement of the 1970s, as a do-it-yourself spirit inspired legions of underground punk fans to start raw but vibrant journals documenting the nascent music scenes in their communities. Zine topics would broaden throughout the 1980s and 1990s to cover a variety of subject areas, from comics to anarchist politics to women’s rights, to more mundane subjects like dumpster diving, alternative fashions, tattoo art, and much more. Despite the expansion of topics, the format usually remained the same—self-published booklets printed in limited editions and typically produced with a photocopy machine.

The Funding Arts Network is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the arts in Miami-Dade County through publicly funding grants for various art-related institutions, events, projects, and educational initiatives. The organization originally formed in 1996 under the name of Fifty over Fifty, Inc. with the initial goal of recruiting 50 members who would each contribute $1,000 a year to form a pool of $50,000 that would be endowed to the arts. Both the award pool and membership grew considerably over time, and by 2018, they had funded over 108 art organizations and had awarded $4,822,600 in grants. Their records contain past grant applications, newsletters, correspondence, contracts, awards, audio-visual materials, press clippings, bylaws, reports, minutes, membership lists, and other administrative documents for the organization.

This collection contains manuscripts, poems, journals, printouts from online chapbooks and collaborations, reviews, clippings, promotional posters and fliers, audiovisual materials, and other writings by the well-renowned and award-winning poet and writer Michael Hettich (1953-).

The Dan Rose art collection contains 32 original acrylic paintings (5 x 7 in.) by Dan Rose and three of his self-published booklets on his works.

The collection contains a letter, envelopes and a medallion relating to Cuban senator, mayor, and historian Manuel Martínez-Moles (1863-1951). The collection also includes a copy of "Manuel Martínez-Moles" written by Dr. Juan L. Riera for The Cuban Philatelist. Subsequent donations have included photographs of Cuban monuments in Miami, taken in 2020; restaurant and culinary ephemera; clippings and articles related to philately and Cuban historical figures such as José María Heredia, Félix Varela, León Primelles, and José Martí, authored by Dr. Riera; exhibition ephemera; political flyers; documents related to the Cuban communities in Ybor City and Key West; conference materials related to the InterAmerican Institute for Democracy, held in August 2022; and tourism ephemera. The collection also contains memorabilia such as matchbooks and cigarette ration coupons.

This collection contains manuscripts, drafts, notes, poems, short stories, translations, and unpublished works by the award-winning Guatemalan author and translator, David Unger (1950-). Also featured within the collection are his correspondence (both personal and work-related), photographs, his education files from elementary school to university, book contracts, book reviews, article clippings, and artwork and prints by the artist, Walter Mosley.

This collection contains exhibit promotional materials, correspondence, periodicals, news clippings, sketchbooks, art work, photographs, audio-visual materials (VHS, CD-Rs, floppy disks, Hi8 videocassette tapes), administrative files, and other related archival materials from the local Miami artist, Karen Rifas.

The Florida culinary history collection contains a wide range of materials related to Florida's rich history of food, its unique restaurants and dishes, and its domestic food production. Items within the collection include pamphlets, flyers, ephemera, periodicals, and other memorabilia originating from Florida.

The O, Miami collection holds memorabilia associated with the literary organization and their events and publications. The materials document many of the inventive techniques used to promote poetry during their annual O, Miami Poetry Festival, including poetry parking tickets and poems in the form of lottery scratch off tickets. Other events documented include the organization's visiting writers series, and their collaborations with Pages and Spreads, another local literary organization. The collection also includes chapbooks/zines that collect poems and writings from local Miami writers.

Formed in 1959, World Wings International is an association of former Pan Am flight attendants that now dedicates itself to charitable activities. This collection includes the administrative records of the organization as well as scrapbooks, photographs, membership and annual meetings files, correspondence and financial records.

The David L. Powell papers contain research files created for the production of the book "Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away: Memories of Early Cuban Exiles." The collection contains audio recordings of interviews, physical and digital transcripts, manuscripts, and digital images of photographs and memorabilia, as well as permission documents collected during the interview process.

The Movimiento San Isidro Oral History Project documents the Movimiento San Isidro, a social and political movement created by a group of Cuban dissident artists protesting the country's Decree 349 that requires artists to obtain prior approval from the Ministry of Culture to perform in public and private spaces. The group protests police violence, with some members using non-violent methods of resistance such as hunger strikes to bring attention to their cause.

An ongoing collection of comics and zines added to the holdings of the University of Miami Libraries Special Collections, with a focus on zines produced in and/or about the Caribbean and Latin America, including diaspora communities. Zines are typically independent and self published booklets popular in underground subcultures. The first zines were fanzines, started in the early 20th century by science fiction fans documenting the genre. The format truly took off with the punk rock movement of the 1970s, as a do-it-yourself spirit inspired legions of underground punk fans to start raw but vibrant journals documenting the nascent music scenes in their communities. Zine topics would broaden throughout the 1980s and 1990s to cover a variety of subject areas, from comics to anarchist politics to women’s rights, to more mundane subjects like dumpster diving, alternative fashions, tattoo art, and much more. Despite the expansion of topics, the format usually remained the same—self-published booklets printed in limited editions and typically produced with a photocopy machine.

The Tom Austin papers include the published articles, research notes, manuscripts, drafts, correspondence, photographs, ephemera, clippings, and other materials collected and produced by the prolific Miami/South Beach writer, editor, and columnist, Tom Austin (1955-2022).

The collection contains genealogical information related to the Tamayo family, which played a prominent role in Cuba's independence from Spain.

This collection contains several cookbooks created by University of Miami students as part of their final project for the APY 360 Anthropology of Food class during the 2019 and 2021 fall semesters.

The Cutler Ridge Woman’s Club records document the club’s founding and history, in addition to its civic, community, and social activities from 1956-2010. The records include minutes for 1956-2008; annual reports for 1956-2005; club histories for 1956-2010;  financial records for 1956-2009; charter and by-laws; newsletters; yearbooks; and guest books, as well as clippings, certificates, letters, and other documentation relating to club activities. Also included is one folder of materials relating to the club’s predecessor, the Welcome Wagon Club. Oversize materials include proclamations and a map of Cutler Ridge used for a street light campaign in 1970.

This collection contains documents, signage materials, and decals regarding the University of Miami's response to COVID-19.

This collection contains photo albums, interviews, the McCourt family tree, clippings, notes, correspondence, manuscripts, photo albums, resumes/CVs, legal documents, and other archival documents about Sue McCourt Cobb’s career as an American Ambassador to Jamaica (2001-2005) and the former Secretary of State of Florida (2005-2007) and her climb on Mt. Everest.

The Documenting Diversity and Democracy in Brazil collection consists video recordings from sessions at the Documenting Diversity and Democracy in Brazil symposium, held virtually at University of Miami from April 12-13, 2021.

This symposium was created thanks to a grant sponsored by University of Miami Libraries as part of the CREATE Grant Fall 2019 grant Cycle Awards. The symposium was established to highlight the unique and richly-textured Leila Míccolis Brazilian Alternative Press collection. The event featured keynote presentations by João Silvério Trevisan (Brazilian LGBT activist, journalist, and novelist), Dr. Leila Míccolis (Lawyer, activist, and writer) and Sonia Guajajara (Brazilian environmental and indigenous activist and politician), alongside invited papers of scholars who had worked with the Collection to showcase intersectionalities and (dis)connections between burgeoning social and political movements in Brazil from the military dictatorship (1964–1985) to the present day, as well as works focusing on human rights, social justice, and cross-fertilization of historical and sociopolitical trajectories that shed more light on recovering the voices of marginalized Brazilians.

Thanks to a grant sponsored by UM Libraries as part of the CREATE Grant Fall 2019 grant Cycle Awards, students under the supervision of Professor Robin Bachin (Associate Professor/Assistant Provost for Civic and Community Engagement) conducted interviews with Miami community members in neighborhoods that have undergone significant transformations over the last several decades.

The Race, housing, and displacement oral history collection documents the complicated and significant interconnections among race, housing, and displacement in Miami during the twentieth century. The 6 interviewees are from various neighborhoods including Overtown, Liberty City, and Little Haiti. The interviews were conducted over Zoom during April 2020.

The following individuals were interviewed as part of this collection:

1. Adrian Madriz: Executive Director of the Struggle for Miami’s Affordable and Sustainable Housing (SMASH)
2. Alana Greer: Co-founder of the Community Justice Project
3. Mileyka Burgos: Executive Director of The Allapattah Collaborative, CDC
4. Nancy Metayer: Candidate for Coral Springs Commissioner; member on the Steering Committee of the Miami Climate Alliance; former member of the Broward County Soil and Water Conservation District; Co-Founder of the Florida Disaster Preparedness Plan; environmental scientist; community organizer
5. Shirley Plantin, Chief Executive Consultant for U-Turn Youth Consulting Firm and the author of The Backstory of a New Reality
6. Yanick Landess, Director of Homeownership Programs at Neighborhood Housing Services of South Florida

The Maricel Mayor Marsán Collection includes correspondence, event flyers and programs, photographs, books, booklets, posters, and articles written by and about Cuban academic Maricel Mayor Marsán (b.1952). It also includes audiovisual materials.

This collection contains records from the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Department of Ophthalmology, administrative documents, development documents, materials from the Eye bank, Allied papers, Edward W. D. Norton's papers, general files, architectural designs and planning documents, papers from other notable faculty and administrators, newsletters, promotional materials, photographs, awards, plaques, ephemera, and audio-visual materials.

This collection contains administrative documents, research files, lecture files, reports, and other archival materials pertaining to the University of Miami Institute of Cuban and Cuban American Studies.

The collection contains a data set of tweets collected from the Twitter microblogging and social networking service regarding the spread of COVID-19 in Cuba and the country's response to the coronavirus pandemic, including its involvement in global medical relief efforts.

Beginning in March 2020 and throughout the duration of the pandemic, the Cuban Heritage Collection is collecting tweets relating to the following phrases and hashtags: Cuba and COVID-19, Cuba and coronavirus, #CubaSalvaVidas, #SomosCuba, and #SomosContinuidad.

The tweets collected by the Cuban Heritage Collection for this data archive do not represent an exhaustive or complete record of all tweets relating to the targeted hashtags due to restrictions on tweet volume accessed via the Twitter API.

The collection contains a data set of tweets collected from the Twitter microblogging and social networking service documenting Cuban and Cuban diaspora responses to the 2020 US presidential election.

From October 23 to November 9, 2020, the Cuban Heritage Collection collected tweets relating to the following phrases and hashtags: Cuban and Trump, Cuban and Biden, Otaola and Trump, Otaola and Biden, #TodosConBiden, #CubanosConBiden, #CubansforBiden, #CubanosConTrump, #CubansforTrump, and #LatinosforTrump.

The tweets collected by the Cuban Heritage Collection for this data archive do not represent an exhaustive or complete record of all tweets relating to the targeted hashtags due to restritions on tweet volume accessed via the Twitter API.

Materials document the life and career of Cuban poet, Virgil Suárez, Materials include manuscripts, drafts, notes, teaching materials, correspondence, and submission to literary journals.

Photographs, posters, books, and other archival materials that belonged to James William Hipp (1934-), Dean of the Frost School of Music.

The Finlay B. Matheson collection includes more than 2,411 photographs; 112 maps, surveys, and architectural plans; and 13 books related to William John Matheson and his immediate family. Estate documents and other documents containing historical and biographical information pertaining to the Matheson family and their various business ventures can also be found within this collection, as well as drawings, postcards, and some of the first aerial view photographs of Key Biscayne, Coconut Grove, the Miami River, and the Florida Keys. Florida's landscape during the early 20th century is captured throughout the various albums and scrapbooks and attests to a more leisurely lifestyle before the advent of skyscrapers and multi-lane highways. Furthermore, the collection provides an in-depth glimpse into the burgeoning social life of early inhabitants who gathered at the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club.

This collection contains zines created by University of Miami graduate students for Professor Marina Magloire's ENG655 "Find Your Mother: An Introduction to Black Feminism" class held in the fall semester of 2020.

The Art in Miami collection contains brochures, flyers, exhibit catalogs, pamphlets, handouts, and other ephemera documenting art and art-related activities in Miami, with material going as far back as 1996. Included are items from galleries, such as the Alejandra von Hartz Gallery, the Miami International Airport Gallery, and Lowe Art Museum Gallery, as well as various other local museums, art fairs, shows, and the Wynwood Arts District. The collection also includes brochures, programs, maps, handouts, and ephemera from the Art Basel show in Miami Beach, beginning with Art Basel 2009.

The 2019 Helms-Burton Act Twitter Archive collection contains a dataset of tweets collected from Twitter microblogging platform in response to the Trump administration's announcement that the suspension of the extension of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act would not be continued. Title III of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Libertad) Act of 1996 (known as the “Helms-Burton Act”) provides a cause of action under U.S. federal law through which U.S. nationals may sue any person who “traffics” in property that was expropriated from a U.S. national by the Cuban Government on or after January 1,1959. On April 17, 2019, the Trump administration announced that the cause of action made available under Title III, which has been suspended since 1996, would become fully effective as a basis to initiate litigation before the United States courts as of May 2, 2019.

During the announcement, the Cuban Heritage Collection collected tweets relating to the following phrases and hashtags: #HelmsBurton, #BayofPigs, and #CubaPolicy between April 18 and April 25.

The tweets collected by the Cuban Heritage Collection for this data archive do not represent an exhaustive or complete record of all tweets relating to the targeted hashtags due to restrictions on tweet volume accessed via the Twitter API.

The data archive is available for download to the University of Miami community via the University of Miami scholarly repository. The data is presented in JSON structured text files. For information on accessing the archive, see the “conditions governing access” section of this finding aid.

The University of Miami celebrated its first annual Giving Day on April 8, 2019, which was a 24-hour online and social media extravaganza that brought together students, faculty, staff, alumni, and the UM community in an effort to support, celebrate, and give back to the University. This particular day was chosen because the University of Miami was officially incorporated on April 8, 1925.

The collection contains a cardboard "giving box," filled with promotional posters, flyers, postcards, and other memorabilia, such as a luggage tag, balloons, an acrylic standee, and a t-shirt.

The Leonor Ferreira Collection documents professional and political activities. It contains photographs, documents, correspondence, and periodicals related to various medical endeavors and community and political organizations. These include but are not limited to the American Red Cross, Junta Patriótica Cubana, Partido Revolucionario Cubano, and Leones Cubanos en el Exilio, as well as community and familial events.

The Architecture Faculty Oral History Project is a series of interviews with faculty from the University of Miami School of Architecture. These oral histories serve a fundamental purpose in capturing and preserving the individual memories of the faculty. The project began with informal conversations to assess how the library could best address their scholarly support needs. The interview process revealed critical yet untold stories about the history and pedagogical evolution of the School of Architecture. An ongoing project, the faculty oral histories documented here provide the scaffolding for narrating the school's pedagogical trajectories from the mid-century to the present.

The University of Miami Women’s Commission records document the social activities of the University of Miami Women’s Commission and include audio-visual materials, awards, event programs and flyers, publications, and photographs. It also contains reports and documents chronicling the history and development of the organization.

The Kevin Arrow Miami, Music, Art, and Culture collection contains zines, periodicals, ephemera, flyers, photographs, art work, posters, audio-visual material (CDs, CD-ROMs, and vinyl records), and other related archival materials.

The collection contains a data set of tweets collected from the Twitter microblogging and social networking service regarding the June 2019 changes to travel policy toward Cuba imposed by the Trump administration.

From June 4 to 13, 2019, the Cuban Heritage Collection collected tweets relating to the following hashtags and phrases: Cuba cruises, Cuba travel ban, Cuba travel restrictions, Cuba sanctions, Cuba policy, #SomosContinuidad, #CubavsHelmsBurton, #HelmsBurton, and #SomosCuba.

The tweets collected by the Cuban Heritage Collection for this data archive do not represent an exhaustive or complete record of all tweets relating to the targeted hashtags due to restritions on tweet volume accessed via the Twitter API.

The Andreyaa Hora artist sketchbooks collection consists of Hora's complete works in sketchbooks from the period 2008 to 2019.

Collection description, provided by Martin Tsang, Curator of Latin American Collections:

The fifteen sketchbooks that represent a significant portion of the artist’s work, to date, include an incredible variety of media - drawings, prints, quotes, gathered materials such as clippings and test pieces. The themes present in the pages of the books refer to and draw upon numerous Afro-Atlantic traditions, including Haitian Vodou, Brazilian Candomblé, Cuban Lucumí, as well as Yoruba, Fon, and Kongo ethnic and spiritual African sources. There is inspiration, for example, from specific orishas such as Oyá, the transformative goddess of the Harmattan winds, the marketplace, and owner of the cemetery gates, as well as more elusive traditions including Santa Muerte. In Andreyaa Hora's sketchbooks, Caribbean and Latinx artists are present and referenced as wellsprings of inspiration, as are European, Asian, and Indigenous connections. The sheer variety of media shows how the artist works out her ideas on paper and devises approaches to best convey matters of the spirit, the mind, and the body. The sketchbooks offer a tantalizing and inspirational glimpse into the creative processes of making the abstract concrete and beautifully demonstrate and bring to life the many deities who travel between and beyond Africa, the Americas, and the entire world. The books reflect a deep spiritual connection to the divine as captured by the hand and heart of someone who is careful and concerned with safeguarding ritual knowledge while utilizing a wealth of techniques that help bring art to life.

Artist's statement:

"My interest in art began early for me. From the age of eleven, I began taking art lessons in school in my hometown of Ilheus, in the state of Bahia, Brazil. My father, an architect, was a tremendous influence on my style and his work blueprints helped me understand and define spaces through lines, shapes, and forms. Through watching my father work and under his tutelage, I gained an appreciation of geometry and scale and working on paper to create pieces that could be developed into larger pieces, and also the importance of playing with materials and experimenting with forms. This early start in and out of school led me to further my abilities by taking private lessons with local artists that helped challenge my abilities and ways of seeing. Ultimately, these artists fostered inside me an abiding fascination with art that continues to this day.

I continued my studies at the University of La Rochelle, France and continued my practice under the guidance of local artists engaging with painters across the Niort region. In 2008 I became deeply interested in printmaking, inspired by the work of David Jones and Eric Gil whose work I saw in Wales in the UK. This period was a pivotal moment for me as this medium became my anchor in my mode of artistic expression. From this time, I also explored and embraced digital media and developing artistic technologies to further my methods. Viewing the work of James Jean was my inspiration to venture and experiment in new realms.

It was while studying and working on art in Europe that I began to appreciate the history and migrations that created the Lusophone Atlantic movements over the centuries. Through my art I started to explore and express facets of my Brazilian culture and my work is heavily inspired by deities of the African descent actively worshiped in Brazil and many countries of the Americas through the project of Trans-Atlantic slavery. The orishas - the pantheon of gods and goddesses are greatly present in my art and I explore ideas of contact and strategy of religious expression with references to deities in other African derived religions, indigenous beliefs, and the inclusion or transformation of European deities and philosophies by practitioners. I am particularly interested in exploring ideas, effects, and the presence of LGBTQ practitioners and how these are reflected in images of the divine in these Afro-Atlantic religions. I became fascinated by cordel - woodcut printed literature production of artists who I worked with in northeast Brazil. As an orisha priest and practitioner, I have devoted a considerable amount of my artistic output to creating works that reflect these deities in different methods drawn from these methodologies and my work is often commissioned by practitioners and my art now represents a movement of signifying worship in private and public ways.

I use a variety of printmaking techniques. I use manual techniques such as woodcut and linoleum which give my art a homely, rustic feel reminiscent of the art of Northeast Brazil which is close to my roots. I also use digital painting techniques that are rich in texture and colours. Whichever method I use, I start by sketching out my ideas in my notebooks which record my thought processes and studies much in the same way as a filmmaker would create a storyboard. From the outset, sketchbooks are key to my art process as they are a place to gather information: quotes, photos taken from a variety of places, works from the myriad of artists who inspire me, old and new. My sketchbooks have been shared with very few people as I am a perfectionist I would rather show a finished piece. My books represent the unfinished and undone, even messy work that includes my sketches and some are uncomfortable or dark visual thoughts, things that I feel I need to have an outlet for however I know will probably not make it into my exhibited works.

I create art because it is an intrinsic part of who I am and what I do. I couldn’t put into words what compels me to do it – I cannot imagine doing anything else. I take inspiration from folklore, music and the world around me and the world inside of me with all its contradictions, queerness, and search for the divine."

The Carlota Caulfield papers consist of personal and professional correspondence, literary materials including typescripts, manuscripts, poetry, video cassettes, DVDs, cassette tapes, and floppy discs, and various ephemera like clippings, pamphlets, flyers, postcards, photographs, and publications that document Caulfield's career as a poet, scholar, and cultural figure.

The James Merrick Smith and Hal F. B. Birchfield collection contains images, letters, news articles, DVDs and a CDs highlighting the stellar lives, careers and involvement of James Merrick Smith and Hal Birchfield in their personal, professional and civic activities.

With his vision of design becoming much more than the up-market selling of merchandise, James Merrick Smith set about the machinery of change that would make interior design a legitimate and accredited profession.   This progression would require the development of education, testing, administration and implementation and then onward to governmental accreditation. James Merrick Smith was the person that not only had the vision but the guts and the charisma and good fortune to find others to help fulfill this dream of professionalization of the field of interior design. Life partner Hal Birchfield would also be a part of this much involved process. And among other facets of their lives was the matter of the highly respected professional work the office of James Merrick Smith and Hal Birchfield achieved, setting high professional standards for interior design excellence.

This collection was developed during the 2018-2019 academic school year as part of a project by University of Miami Library Research Scholar and then senior, David Lanster, who was carrying out research on yeast genetics and metabolism for UM's Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. His goal was to contribute to studies on the cultural and social impact of food history in South Florida by examining food through the lens of various local craft breweries in Miami, which have been perfecting their own craft beer recipes for years. His collection contains advertisements, posters, flyers, beer caps, bottle openers, bottles, glasses, beer taps, and other ephemera and clothing items related to Miami's local craft brewery scene.

The collection contains a data set of tweets collected from the Twitter microblogging and social networking service regarding the May 2019 LGBTQ Pride march in Havana, Cuba, known as "conga."

From May 15 to 22, 2019, the Cuban Heritage Collection collected tweets relating to the following phrases and hashtags: conga, conga against homophobia, conga contra la homofobia, IDAHOT, LGBTIQ, marcha alternativa, Cenesex, Cuba and LGBT, la marcha va, Cuba and transfobia, and Cuba and homofobia.

The tweets collected by the Cuban Heritage Collection for this data archive do not represent an exhaustive or complete record of all tweets relating to the targeted hashtags due to restritions on tweet volume accessed via the Twitter API.

The Alma Flor Ada papers contain correspondence, photographs, negatives, manuscripts, typescripts, as well as some of Ada's teaching materials.

Born in Ituiuitaba, Brazil, Gazy Andraus is a comics researcher and author. He studied Visual Arts at the Art Institute of the Federal University of Goiás (1986-1987) and graduated from the Faculty of Plastic Arts of the Armando Álvares Penteado Foundation in São Paulo in 1992. He then became a Master of Visual Arts from the Institute of Arts of UNESP in São Paulo in 1999, and a Doctor in Communication Sciences. His collection includes Brazilian zines he created and collected over his lifetime.

The collection contains a data set of tweets collected from the Twitter microblogging and social networking service regarding the September 24, 2018 address of Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel during the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit at the United Nations.

The Cuban Heritage Collection collected tweets relating to the hashtags #PeaceSummitCuba, #PeaceSummit, #CubaenlaONU, #DiazCanel, and #CubaUS between September 25, 2018 and October 2, 2018.

The tweets collected by the Cuban Heritage Collection for this data archive do not represent an exhaustive or complete record of all tweets relating to the targeted hashtags due to restritions on tweet volume accessed via the Twitter API.

The Aldemaro Romero Archive is comprised of the artistic and intellectual production of the Venezuelan composer from 1945 to his death in 2007. His collection is divided in two sections: concert and popular music. Aldemaro Romero's concert collection is made of one hundred original manuscripts and copies of scores with works for symphonic orchestra, chorus and orchestra, solo concerts for wind and string instruments with orchestra, and chamber music. The popular music collection contains 126 songs and 31 instrumental works (vol. 1 and vol. 20), manuscripts and copies of the lead sheets and/or lyrics and recordings.

The collection contains digital photography created by Carl Moore on various trips to Cuba, including contemporary Cuban street scenes and portraits of dancers. Many of the photographs feature dancers from Compañía Codanza in Holguín. Other topics photographed include agriculture, nature and country life; baseball and sports; street vendors and the sugar industry; and transportation. Moore traveled throughout the island and photographed in the following cities and towns:
• Baracoa
• Bayamo
• Boca de Yumurí
• Camagüey
• Cienfuegos
• Gibara
• Guantánamo
• Guardalavaca
• Havana
• Holguín
• Isla de Juventud
• Las Tunas
• Manzanillo
• Matanzas and Varadero
• Moa
• Niquero
• Pinar del Río
• Remedios
• Río Cauto
• Santa Clara
• Santa Lucía
• Santiago
• Santo Domingo
• Sierra Maestra
• Trinidad
• Viñales

From 1926 to 1991, Eastern Airlines had endured as one of the major and more well known airlines in the Americas. This collection captures important fragments of its long history and its influence on the airline industry through the eyes of its former employees and passengers. The materials contained within include: ephemera, 3D objects, uniforms, manuals, administrative files, photographs, albums, and other types of documents pertaining to Eastern Airlines.

Almost all items contained in this collection have been generously donated to the University of Miami by individuals donating on behalf of the Eastern Airlines Retiree Association [EARA], or former employees who have contributed to the collection on an individual basis.

The collection contains a dataset of tweets collected from the Twitter microblogging and social networking service regarding the June 16, 2017 announcement of changes in U.S. foreign policy toward Cuba by the Trump administration.

The Cuban Heritage Collection collected tweets relating to the hashtags #CubanUS, #Cuba, #Trump, #CubaTrump, and #CubaEsNuestra between June 19, 2017 and July 5, 2017.

The tweets collected by the Cuban Heritage Collection for this data archive do not represent an exhaustive or complete record of all tweets relating to the targeted hashtags due to restritions on tweet volume accessed via the Twitter API.

This collection largely contains materials and personal items from noted Eastern Airlines pilot, Arthur W. Dunlop, and his family members, Patricia H. Dunlop and Lorraine F. Dunlop. Contained within are Eastern Airlines documents, photographs, manuals, flight records, flight instruments; ephemera, VHS, vinyl records, pilot's wives' yearbooks, and news clippings; University of Miami pins, tags, ephemera, and Bachelor's certificate; family photographs, photograph albums, and drawings.

The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) Records Collection includes annual conference programs, promotional materials, attendance lists, correspondence, audio visual recordings, research project materials, publications, award submission packets, award programs, and administrative files relating to the CNU’s annual congress meeting, annual Charter Awards, board meetings, research projects, and CNU publications. The records cover the organization's activities between 1991 and 2017.

The UM LGBTQ History Collection contains materials that document the activities of the university's LGBTQ student groups as well as the university's programs for LGBTQ students, such as the organizational records of the LGBTQ Student Center, newsletters, correspondence, press clippings, and audio-visual materials.

Fonkoze consists of a family of three organizations: Fonkoze Financial Services (Sèvis Finansye Fonkoze (SFF), S.A.), Fonkoze Foundation (Fondasyon Kole Zepòl), and Fonkoze USA, all of which are dedicated to providing financial assistance and other kinds of support to the Haitian community in Haiti and in the United States. The records contain an overview of their organizations' goals and initiatives over the past two decades, including documents, newsletters, periodicals, clippings, reports, photographs, and audio-visual materials.

The Florida Menu collection is comprised of both vintage and contemporary menus originating from restaurants all around Florida, which depict a unique part of Florida's culinary, agricultural, and commercial history. Origins of these menus currently include Miami, Miami Beach, Bradenton, Brandon, Coral Gables, Key West, Pembroke Pines, Ft. Lauderdale, Tampa, Hallandale, Kissimmee, and Jacksonville. New menus will be added periodically to the collection as they are acquired.

The 2017 "Wet Foot, Dry Foot" Policy Change Twitter Archive collection contains a dataset of tweets collected from Twitter microblogging platform when President Obama suspended the former interpretation of the 1995 revision of the application of the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966. Beginning January 12, 2017, Cuban nationals who attempt to enter the United States illegally and do not qualify for humanitarian relief will be subject to removal, consistent with U.S. law and enforcement priorities.

During the announcement, the Cuban Heritage Collection collected tweets relating to the following phrases and hashtags: #Cuba, #Cubans, #CubanAdjustmentAct, #LeyDeAjusteCubano, #WetFootDryFoot, and #PieSecoPieMojado.

The tweets collected by the Cuban Heritage Collection for this data archive do not represent an exhaustive or complete record of all tweets relating to the targeted hashtags due to restrictions on tweet volume accessed via the Twitter API.

This collection contains materials donated by members of the University of Miami Black Alumni Society. Contained within are photographs, event announcements, calendars, certificates, memorabilia, programs, plaques, and publications.

Phoenix was a literary magazine published by the University of Miami's Honors Students Association.  The first issue was published in the academic year 1986-1987.  University Archives holds 1 copy of volume 1 (1986-1987).

The 2017 Miami as Sanctuary Jurisdiction Twitter Archive contains data set of tweets collected from the Twitter microblogging platform documenting the status of Miami-Dade as a sanctuary jurisdiction for immigrants to the United States.

Special Collections collected tweets relating to the following phrases and hashtags: #miamisanctuarycity, Miami #sanctuarycounty, #miamisanctuarycounty, and Miami #sancturarycity.

The tweets collected by Special Collections for this data archive do not represent an exhaustive or complete record of all tweets relating to the targeted hashtags due to restrictions on tweet volume accessed via the Twitter API.

Joseph L. Herndon (1948-2021) was a historical preservationist who aided in several global restoration projects, including the Old Spanish Fort (1730) in Pascagoula, Mississippi; Qasr Ibrihim (1600's) in Hoffuf, Saudi Arabia; the Old Post Office (1897) in Washington, D.C.; The Rugby Colony (1880's) in Rugby, Tennessee; Union Station (1900) in Nashville, Tennessee; The Germantown neighborhood revitalization (1840's) in Nashville, Tennessee; The Biltmore Hotel (1926) in Miami, Florida. His papers include a large breadth of information and research pertaining to the Biltmore Hotel, the Panama Canal, Turkey, the Deering Estate, resorts, and other areas of interest to Joseph Herndon. Material types represented within include audio-visual materials (CD-ROMS, VHS, photographs, slides), print-outs, administrative files, financial files, travel brochures, ephemera, architectural plans, interior design samples, research files, reports, proposals, periodicals, and 3D objects.

This collection contains aviation research related to the loss of Flight 7, PAA-94, Pan American Clipper Romance of the Skies in the mid-Pacific on November 8, 1957. Included within are documents, photographs, notes, memoranda of conversations, and interview transcripts used in the research and writing of two magazine articles by Gregg Herken and Ken Fortenberry. Also included in the collection are the articles which appeared in Air & Space and Smithsonian magazines.

Thanks to a grant sponsored in part by the Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, The Florida Council of Arts and Culture and the State of Florida, The University of Miami Special Collections conducted interviews with individual of Caribbean ancestry now living in Florida. Project Director: Beatrice Colastin Skokan, Manuscripts Librarian, University of Miami Libraries.

The Caribbean diaspora oral history collection documents and makes accessible the contributions of people of Caribbean ancestry who share stories of migration to the United States and the challenges inherent in such displacements. The 20 interviewees are from various countries from the Caribbean basin such as Columbia, Cuba, Ecuador, Haiti, Jamaica, Nicaragua, and Puerto Rico.

The Scott Carver Housing History collection includes photographs, clippings, reports, ephemera, and digitized files of oral history interviews that document the advocacy work of Scott Carver Miami residents and activists for the restitution of the demolished Scott Carver homes.

This collection contains typed manuscripts, drafts, poems, periodicals, publications, correspondence, news clippings, photographs, slides, negatives, VHS tapes, audiocassette tapes, CDs and other archival materials from the local South Floridian poet, Jeffrey Knapp (1949-2011). Also included in the collection are photographs and research materials on the South Floridian artist, Betti Bernay (also known as Betty Godlfarb; 1926-2010).

This collection contains a collection of writings and research from local historian, playwright, director, and teacher, Sandra Riley, and poet, teacher, and musician, Peggy C. Hall. The materials currently include manuscripts, research notes, journals, interviews, drafts, playscripts, ephemera, poetry, and other materials pertaining to their life's work and writings.

The collection consists of memorabilia commemorating anniversaries and special events by the University of Miami, its schools and departments, athletic programs, student groups, and affiliated organizations. Included among the objects are medallions, cups, bags, hats, gowns, golf balls, t-shirts, parking decals, signs, logos, blankets, plush toys, collecting cards, footballs, and other assorted items.

This collection contains the class schedule, reading list, teaching notes, student essays and presentations, photographic materials, as well as scholarly articles and news reports on feminism. The materials come from the course political science course, POL391: Women in Warfare, taught by Dr. Martha Lizabeth Phelps in spring 2016.

George Washington Carver High School Alumni items. The first Carver class to be exhibited is the Thorians of 1964.

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.

Located in the heart of Coral Gables, ArtSpace Virginia Miller Galleries have served as a launching pad for budding young artists in South Florida and Latin America for over 44 years. This collection contains several publications and gallery catalogs that discuss many of the exhibits Virginia Miller and her colleagues have helped pioneer.

Roberto Estopiñan (1921-2015) was a Cuban born sculptor who emigrated to the United States and lived in New York from 1960 to 2002. He subsequently retired in Miami until his passing in 2015. His papers at the Cuban Heritage Collection include 47 sketchbooks with original artwork from the 1980s to the 1990s, photographs, 1 maquette for a book titled: "En el Vientre del Tropico" by Alina Galliano (1991), slides and ephemera related to the artist's work and his travels, awards, as well as a plaster cast of the Estopiñan's hands.

This collection contains brochures, pamphlets, periodicals, and other assorted Latin American publications regarding social issues, such as diversity, labor rights, discrimination, poverty, and sexual identity.

The records contain legal cases, research files, correspondence, audio-visual materials (VHS, CD-ROM, audiocassettes, microcassettes), and trial notes from the Miami Community Justice Project. Topics covered include development for low income housing, gentrification, public housing, and privately run detention centers. In particular, the materials discuss the Scott Homes/Hope VI housing revitalization plan and the Reese v. Miami-Dade County court case; the Sawyer's Walk (Overtown) and Crosswinds (Overtown) redevelopment projects; the Manuel et al. v. city of Lake Worth court case; and the Miami Workers Centers Transit HUB. Other organizations mentioned in the files include Power U Center for Social Change and Florida Immigrant Coalition (FLIC).

The 2015 Dominicans of Haitian Descent Twitter archive contains data set of tweets collected from the Twitter microblogging platform documenting the Dominican Republic's Constitutional Court ruling that retroactively limited birthright citizenship pre 1929.

In 2015, Special Collections collected tweets relating to the following phrases and hashtags: #WeAeAllDominicans and #hatianlivesmatter.

The tweets collected by Special Collections for this data archive do not represent an exhaustive or complete record of all tweets relating to the targeted hashtags due to restrictions on tweet volume accessed via the Twitter API.

The 2014 US-Cuba Policy Change Twitter archive collection contains a data set of tweets collected from the Twitter microblogging platform when President Barack Obama announced on December 17, 2014 that the United States would begin normalizing full diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba after more than half a century of minimal relations. President Obama's announcement included plans to re-establish the US embassy in Havana, allowing official visits of Cuban diplomats and officials to the United States, and increased official dialogue on public policy issues affecting both countries.

During the announcement, the Cuban Heritage Collection collected tweets relating to the hashtags #cuba, #cubapolicy, #cubalibre, #cubausa, #uscuba, and #cubanmiami between December 9, 2014 and January 28, 2015. The tweets collected before the December 17, 2014 announcement by Presidents Obama and Castro represent tweets gathered via the Twitter API seven days prior to the date of first accessing the Twitter stream via the API, a feature allowed by the API. The tweets collected by the Cuban Heritage Collection for this data archive do not represent an exhaustive or complete record of all tweets relating to the targeted hashtags due to restritions on tweet volume accessed via the Twitter API.

This data archive is available for download to the University of Miami community via the University of Miami scholarly repository. The data is presented in JSON structured text files. For information on accessing the archive, see the "Conditions governing access" section of this finding aid.

Daniella Levine Cava was elected as the Miami-Dade County Commissioner in 2014 and 2018, representing District 8. Her collection contains materials from her successful 2014 campaign, including correspondence, interviews, and periodicals documenting her initiatives on the campaign trail.

Born Linnea Eleanor Yeager in March 13, 1929, in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, "Bunny" gained international fame as both a model and a photographer. She moved to Miami at a young age and first attracted local interest as a model, winning several pageants and gracing the pages of popular magazines. While she was modeling, she developed a knack for designing and sewing together her own bikinis, and her style became rather prolific in the fashion circuit for many years after.

Since creating portfolios was rather expensive while Bunny was trying to break out into the modeling industry, she was motivated to learn photography and took several night classes to hone her abilities and create her own portfolios. She eventually developed her signature method of photography that allowed her to take pictures of models using natural light through the "fill flash" method. Her style helped to reinvent the genre of nude and pin-up photography, taking it from its roots of overt raunchiness and elevating it into an art form that centered around playful sensuality and provocativeness. Her photos have been featured in Playboy, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Esquire and many other big-name magazines, and she was also credited in helping to make Bettie Page into a household name as well as other famous pin-up models such as Lisa Winters. Her career also includes several self-penned books, including such titles as How I Photograph Myself, How to take Figure Photos, Photographing the Female Figure, and How I Photograph Nudes.

Bunny Yeager eventually passed away in May 25, 2014 in North Miami, but her legacy as one of the leading pioneers of pin-up photography remains. Her collection captures her eclectic history with an array of scrapbooks, correspondence, ephemera, photographs and clippings, all which illustrate her passion for her work.

Julia Dawson is a feminist activist and retired lawyer born and raised in Miami, Florida. Through correspondence, documents, ephemera, and other records, this collection documents Dawson's activism, organizational work, and campaigns from the 1970s through the 2010s around feminism, civil rights, and LGBTQ+ rights. Organizations and campaigns represented in this collection include: National Organization for Women (NOW); Dade County Chapter of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers; SAVE Dade (LGBTQ+ rights activism); American Civil Liberties Union Miami Chapter (ACLU), including the ACLU Miami Chapter’s Police Practices Committee (PPC); Miami Clinic Access Project (reproductive rights); Miami Workers Center (MWC); and Serve the People.

The StoryCorps-Warmamas Community Archive (2013-2015) is a collection of interviews with enlisted men and women, veterans, their family and friends. The collaboration between StoryCorps and Warmamasis part of StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative which serves as a platform to allow military families to share their experiences.  Warmamas also places a special emphasis on interviewing women whose children were deployed  to serve in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. As a repository for personal reflections on the ramifications  of war, the collection includes individual testimonies and helps to document American history.

Sweat Records began as a local independent music store in Miami in 2005, conceived by DJ and club promoter, Lauren (Lolo) Reskin, and by former WVUM DJ and public defense attorney, Sara Yousuf. It served as not only a record store but a public event space and coffee shop, catering to the eclectic music scene in South Florida. The store was forced to temporarily relocate to the back of Churchill's pub in 2005 after the destruction caused from Hurricane Wilma and eventually moved to its new permanent location near Little Haiti. Sara Yousuf also left her role as co-owner to pursue a full-time career as a public defense attorney in 2006 and was replaced by Jason Jimenez who came onboard as Lolo's new partner in 2007. Sweat Records continues to this day to offer a wide variety of performances and events, featuring both budding local artists and veteran rock bands, and to contribute heavily to Miami's thriving music culture.

The Sweat Records collection contains archival material documenting the history of the record store, including newspaper articles, magazines, ephemera, pamphlets, company records, administrative files, personal papers from Lolo Reskin, and audio-visual material. Items are arranged categorically by series and material type.

The Borscht Film Festival is a semi-annual film festival held in Miami, Florida. The festival's mission is "to commission and showcase films by emerging artists that tell Miami stories going beyond the typical portrayal of a beautiful but vapid party town, forging the cinematic identity of the city." Their collection includes ephemera, flyers, postcards, printed materials, posters, 3D objects, and other associated items pertaining to the Borscht Film Festival.

The Association of Cuban Engineers collections includes DVD recordings of conference presentations, articles of incorporation of the Association of Cuban Engineers Scholarship Foundation, Inc., the bylaws of the Cuban-American Association of Civil Engineers, gala programs and ephemera.

Collection consists of author files, press photos and other photographs, organizational records, financial records, audio recordings, video recordings, and promotional materials.

Author files (8 cubic feet): manila folders containing materials related to authors who appeared or were considered as panelists.

Press photos (1 cubic foot): biographical material, handwritten and typewritten correspondence.

Photographs: candid photos of KWLS authors and attendees; some studio/posed portraits.

Organizational records (6 cubic feet): 3-ring binders containing board agendas, minutes, related correspondence, and press clippings. Financial records (3 cubic feet) tax and accounting records, grant records.

Audio recordings: approximately 75 unique audio cassettes, 20 unique DAT (digital audio tape) recordings; 100+ unique CD (compact disc) recordings 1999-2008; 85 GB unique audio stored on digital drives, 2009-2014.

Video recordings: 7 VHS cassettes.

Ephemera and other promotional materials: posters, programs, postcards, and publications.

Books received with the donation will be cataloged separately.

The Theater Poster Collection consists of posters of theater productions and events in Cuba or in the diaspora during 1925 to the present.

The Grandes Leyendas Musicales Cubanas Interviews Collection consists of interviews conducted by Eloy Cepero with Cuban-born musicians. The presentations are part of a series sponsored by the Institute of Cuban and Cuban American Studies that showcase Cuban well known musicians and recording artists.

This is an ongoing program and recordings will continue to be added to the collection as more presentations are made.

"The Historic Black Church Oral History Film Project represents an unprecedented campus-community partnership intended to preserve the rich cultural and social history of faith-based communities of color in South Florida, support university-wide interdisciplinary collaboration, and educate a new generation of high school, college, and graduate students about the crucial leadership role of Historic Black Churches in Afro-Caribbean-American communities." -UM Law School Center for Ethics and Public Service (CEPS).

This collection includes DVDs of the "Historic Black Church Oral History" films, publications documenting the project, flyers, ephemera, and invitations for community screenings.

This collection documents Book Are Nice and the organization's involvement in the literary culture of Miami. The collection currently includes materials from two editions of Pages & Spreads, a series of pop-up reading room events that Books Are Nice has helped organize.

Haitian Student Organization collection consists of memorabilia kept in a time capsule, such as organizational records, event brochures, meeting minutes, newsletters, photographs, the Haitian national flag, and news clippings, buried on October 16, 2004 and opened on October 18, 2014.  The collection was donated by the Planet Kreyol Haitian Student Organization of the University of Miami to the University Archives in January 2015.

The donor, Planet Kreyol, was founded in 1993 at the University of Miami as the Haitian Student Organization and later renamed as Planet Kreyol. Their mission is to promote cultural awareness while servicing the community and preserving the ancestry of Haiti.

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.

The Jumbo's Restaurant collection documents the history of the Liberty City restaurant. The collection consists of menus, coupons, a coffee mug, a box for food, and newspaper clippings and articles. Many of the newspaper materials are taped onto poster boards or are framed. The majority of the materials date from 1999-2014, although certain ephemeral items are undated.

The Atlanta Cuban Club collection documents activities of Atlanta Cuban Club, an exile community organization. The mandate of Atlanta Cuban Club is to preserve Cuban traditions and culture. The materials consist of  invitations, programs, correspondence and other publications from Atlanta Cuban Club.

The Repertorio Español records contain the organizational papers of Repertorio Español, a New York-based Spanish-language theater company active from the late 1960s to the present.

The collection contains audiovisual materials including DVDs with television commercials; media coverage; and excerpts, scenes and full performances as well as non-theater related footage. The collection also consists of fundraising records, show files, photographs, clippings, programs and scrapbooks documenting the operation of the theater. A recent donation included audio and video cassettes.

Series one contains show files related to various Repertorio Español productions, which include clippings, ephemera, photographs and some promotional materials and is arranged primarily by production name. Series two contains materials relating to productions on tour, which mostly contain administrative documents outlining contracts, correspondence and publications detailing and publicizing the tours. Series three contains materials relating to promotion of Repertorio Español's productions and outreach to the greater community and is arranged by production name. Series four contains materials related to fundraising that the organization did, including grant applications and outreach to funders. Series 5 contains correspondence files maintained by Repertorio on their interactions with community organizations, actors, writers and other artists; it is arranged by name of correspondent and organization. Series six contains clipping files maintained by Repertorio Españal on productions and news featuring the organization's work in the community; it is organized by publication title and date. Series seven contains audiovisual recordings of performances and recordings of media outlets on a variety of formats, including reel-to-reel, cassette tapes, VHS tapes, and DVDs. Series 8 contains files of slides and contact sheets of Repertio Español performances, actors and events; this series is arranged by performance name and actor name.

The original order of these files as kept by Repertorio Español has been maintained in most cases. Some inventories of audiovisual materials are available; please contact the Archivist for more information.

Founded in 1995 as the Human Services Coalition by Daniella Levine, Catalyst Miami is a non-profit community activist group. Utilizing a vast network of partner organizations and numerous initiatives, Catalyst seeks to equip the socially disadvantaged with financial and healthcare information, public benefits, and educational and economic opportunities. Through programs such as the Prosperity Campaign and Public Allies, Catalyst Miami promotes self-sufficiency, participation in civic life, organizational strength and respect.

This collection contains seven series including: Administrative Files, Initiatives, Conference Materials, Audiovisual Materials, and more. Within these series are various forms of correspondence, training materials, schedules and agendas, promotional materials, newspaper articles and photographs. The documents help reveal the social activist nature of the organization and shed light on some of the many accomplishments it has made through the years.