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The University of Miami submits annual reports to the City of Coral Gables regarding any changes to the Campus Master Plan.

The reports were prepared by the Real Estate, Campus Planning, Construction Office of the University of Miami.

Currently, the University Archives holds the 2011 annual report submitted on June 1, 2011.

The 46-page publication "Soviet Civil Defense - Urban Evacuation and Dispersal: Final Report" was written by Dr. Leon Goure, Director of Soviet Studies, Center for Advanced International Studies of the University of Miami in May 1972.

The report was prepared for the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency, Office of the Secretary of Defense under DCPA Contract Number DAHC20-70-C-0309, DCPA Work Unit 4212A.

The Office of Financial Assistance records contain materials such as annual reports and departmental correspondence.

The Office of Student Employment Records contain materials such as memos, policies, and forms.

The collection contains bylaws written by the Library Faculty Council of the University of Miami Libraries, correspondence, and meeting minutes.  Only the authorized personnel by the University Archives can access the documents.

Transcripts of two interviews of Pan Am employees : Armen Dildilian (1993) and William Masland (1981) in two parts.

Typescript of "And Then There Were Five" by Hal M. Caudle Sr. The text describes the 1927 shooting aboard Coast Guard Boat 249. Caudle's correspondence makes references to Horace J. Alderman.

Small diary of the President of the Miami Electric Railway.

A collection of negatives of South Florida buildings and maps including Plymouth Church in Coconut Grove, the Everglades, Miami Beach hotels and Vizcaya Museum.

Stock certificates of the Magic City Lumber Company in Miami, Florida.

A copy of American composer Jack Beeson's sheet music with corrections for the opera, "Hello out there" (1953). The papers also include a letter from the composer.

Photographs of Pan Am aircraft at Dinner Key terminal in Miami, Florida.

Twelve original leaves of rare books.

The papers consist of typescripts and hand drawn maps for her biographical work on telegraph innovator Cyrus W. Field, stage actor Joseph Jefferson, the pirate Sir Francis Drake, U.S. governor Sam Houston and civil war officer David Glasgow Farragut to name a few.

Willard Hubbell was a South Florida architect and playwright. His collection contains several plays, clippings regarding and programs of the plays, architectural documents and correspondence, a blueprint titled "Cloth House No. 1," four issues of The American Eagle newspaper, a typescript titled "F. W. Munson - (Questionaire about Merritt Island)," a document titled "History of the Koreshan Unity" by A. H. Andrews, and other items.

The Ruth Wilson Papers predominantly consists of a series of lecture notes and typescripts on Japanese culture, history, and language. The other series to be found in the collection is a typescript, titled "Cruising for a Florida State Park," detailing an expedition into Volusia country taken with the aim of discovering historic sites in the county, with accompanying photographs of said sites. Also included is a typescript of an article by John James Audubon titled "A Naturalist's Excursion in Florida."

The Lady Harriet Clive Collection contains a bound manuscript entitled "Spanish Songs," consisting of sheet music and lyrics for Spanish folk songs.

R. A. Seymour was a Wing Commander from the Royal Air Force. The collection contains photographs and memoirs Seymour's training at the Pan American Training Academy at the University of Miami during World War II.

The Johann Heinrich Hesse Papers contains a 1791 manuscript of Johann Heinrich Hesse (1712-1778)'s "Anweisung zum General-Baß," or "Guide to Thorough-Bass."

The James F. O'Boyle Papers contains two manuscripts, one titled "The Coke Twins" and dated 1985, and other titled "Black Night, Black Dawn" and dated 1995.

Lewis was professor of English at the University of Miami from March 1934 to August 1941. This collection consists of manuscript poems by authors Edward Davidson, Eunice Tietjins, and Genevieve Taggard, as well as lecture notes by Jesse Stuart for his February 21, 1941 speech to the Winter Institute of Literature at the University of Miami.

The J. H. Brown Papers contains eight photographs of pilots training at the University of Miami during World War II.

The Joan Sturhahn Papers contains a typescript with corrections of her 1976 work Carvalho, Artist-Photographer-Adventurer-Patriot: Portrait of a Forgotten American. This typescript, however, is titled "Solomon Nunes Carvalho, Recorder of History with Brush and Lens, 19th Century American Scene."

Also included is a note from Sturhahn to Dr. Charlton Tebeau that accompanied the typescript sent to him.

Liam O'Flaherty (1896 – 1984) was an Irish novelist and short story writer and a major figure in the Irish Renaissance. The Liam O'Flaherty Papers contains one unpublished and undated 7-page typescript by O'Flaherty titled "Morals." The typescript contains hand-written corrections and marginalia. The typescript comes in a hardcover folder titled "Liam O'Flaherty Typescript of The Moralist (Unpublished)."

The Lou E. W. Miller Papers contains a University of Miami thesis written by Lou E. W. Miller titled "Florida in Fiction," written under the sponsorship of William Hudson Rogers.

The collection consists of an invitation, a program, and press clippings on Senior Mwambo, which is a tradition of the University of Miami to honor Black graduating senior students.

Recorded interviews and transcripts of Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science Faculty and others discussing the school's history and it's future.

The Rosenstiel School History Committee, chaired by Dr. Robert N. Ginsburg, began producing an oral history of the Rosenstiel School in 1988 with a recorded conversation with the founder and first Dean, F. G. Walton Smith. Almost thirty senior scientific and technical staff members were interviewed on audio cassette tapes, and the tapes were transcribed by Elosie Zakevich and Jean Yehle, of RSMAS.

Annual Reports issued by the Institute of Marine Science / Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami. These reports summarize the Board of Trustees, the Administration, the Faculty , Staff, and Students, the financial outlook, fund raising efforts, improvements and changes, as well as research initiatives, outreach, and goals.

The collection contains materials on homecoming events at the University of Miami from 1968 to 1974. It includes photographs, posters, event proposals, and correspondence collected by Randy Femmer, who was Chairman of the Undergraduate Student Government of the university in 1967. The collection was donated by him to the University Archives on September 12, 1974.

This collection contains notebooks, articles, newspaper clippings, letters, flyers, and drawings from the University's summer session workshops held in Oaxaca, Mexico.

This collection consists of the University of Miami's class schedules in print, which used to be published each semester by the Office of the Registrar.

The University Archives holds volumes from 1939 to 2004.  Some issues have been bound and titled "University of Miami Class Schedule" on spine.

In recent years, class schedules have become only available online.  Go to the link below for the last information.

http://myumnet.miami.edu/General/ClassSearch/ClassSearch.aspx

This collection contains videotapes of  Richter Library printed card catalog records provided by SOLINET in preparation for the change to an online catalog.

This collection contains various informational notices concerning people and events connected to the Special Collections Department of Richter Library.

The Muriel M. Curtis scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, photographs, and several University of Miami publications and documents. She was a student of the university in 1937.

The Hartwell Hunter scrapbook contains black and white photographs, clippings, and memorabilia following his experiences as a student at Swarthmore Preparatory School (1926-1927) and the University of Miami (1928-1932).

University of Miami 60 Years of Achievement is a video program commemorating the 60th anniversary of the University.

It was a presentation of the University of Miami Office of Public Affairs, Division of University Affairs, and was written and produced by Dennis Gaffney.

The University Archives holds a VHS tape of the program. Service copies on DVD are made from the tape. The program length is 27 minutes and 50 seconds.

Alan Cross, Arva Moore Parks, Frank Smathers, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Paul Nagel, Francis Hougtaling, Kay Courtney, Lawrence (Larry) "Big Boy" Catha, Connie Weldon, Fernando Belaunde Terry, Margaret J. Mustard, Dante Fascell, Riis Owre, Norman Kenyon, R. Bunn Gautier, Charlton W. Tebeau, Henry King Stanford, Harold Long, Edward T. "Tad" Foote II, and James W. McLamore were interviewed during the program.

This photograph album contains programs, photographs, and press clippings of the dedication ceremony which took place on January 30, 2005. The building is located on the Coral Gables campus.

A DVD recording of the event was donated by J. William Hipp, former Dean of the school on February 2, 2015.

A program of its 10th anniversary celebration (held on January 23, 2015, 1 page) as well as three kinds of brochures of the music library were donated by Nancy Zavac, Head, Weeks Music Library on February 2, 2015.

The 27-page report "The professional preparation and placement of Cuban refugee teachers" was written by Herbert W. Wey and John F. Newport and published by the University of Miami in 1964.  It was published under a grant from the United States Office of Education.

During the spring and summer of 1963, a pilot project for the professional preparation and placement of Cuban refugee teachers was conducted at the University of Miami.  It enabled thirty-two of the thirty-four Cuban refugees who were in the program to be employed as regular teachers in the Dade County (Miami, Florida) schools.

The University Archives holds two copies of the report.

The 26-page publication "Sad tales and other accounts in labeling chronic mental illness" was written by Kenneth J. Smith, University of Miami.

Publication date is not listed in the report.  It was donated to the University of Miami Library by Mario Garcia.

The publication contains 14 papers presented at the University of Miami Accounting Conference, which was organized by the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants held at the new University of Miami Knight International Conference Center in Miami, Florida on September 22-23, 1983.

The publication includes 7 presentations made by University of Miami faculty.

The publication "The perfect storm: Miami Hurricanes national champions 2001" was published by Sports Illustrated as a special commemorative issue.  [title page: The perfect storm: Miami Hurricanes: undefeated national champions 2001.]  The hard cover special collector's edition has a serial number 03173.

The Japanese editions of VLSI electronics [Japanese title: Cho LSI elekutononikusu] in 3 volumes were published by Gendai Kogakusha in Tokyo, Japan in 1983.  It was edited by Norman G. Einspruch, former Dean of the College of Engineering, University of Miami.

The original title was published from 1981 to 1982 by Academic Press, Inc. in New York.

The 28-page book was written by Rex T. Hall and published in January 1959 by the Instrumental Music Center in Detroit, Michigan.  The author is an alumnus (class of 1938) of the University of Miami.

The Bulletin was published by the Gifford Society of Tropical Botany, Department of Botany, University of Miami.  The University Archives holds 1 copy of the Bulletin No. 2 (1951-52) and 1 copy of Bulletin No. 3 (1952-53).

The 27-page research paper "The Problem of Castes and Caste Differentiation in Prorhinotermes Simplex (Hagen)" was written by Elwood Morton Miller, Department of Zoology.  It was published as a Bulletin of the University of Miami, Volume 15, in April 1942.

The two-part publication "South Florida ecological study, appendix g, recent and long-term vegetation changes and patters in South Florida" was written by Dr. Taylor R. Alexander, Principal Investigator, and Alan G. Crook, Research Assistant.

Part 1, preliminary report was due on May 10, 1973 and part 2, final report, was due in May 1975.  It was published by the Biology Department, University of Miami.

The 68-page publication "Study of the space needs of the United Fund of Dade Co." was prepared by Professor Ralph Warburton; Assistant Professor Tomas L. Lopez-Gottardi; Angel R. Rodriguez, Student Assistant; and Samuel Shapiro, Student Assistant at the Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, University of Miami in 1973.

The 6-volume publication "The Political and Socio-economic Role of the Military in Latin America" was published by the Center for Advanced International Studies, University of Miami circa 1972.

The publication represents results of work sponsored by the Directorate of Doctrine, Concepts and Objective (AF/XOD), DCS/P&O, Headquarters, USAF, under Contract F44620-68-C-0084.

The Wave, newsletter of the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.  Published quarterly for RSMAS supporters, alumni, and friends.

Tidings, newsletter of the Rosentiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.  First issue was published in Fall 1996.  The final issue was published in Spring 2002.

This collection consist of the bulletins from the University of Miami's Marine Laboratory (1948-1961), Institute of Marine Science (1962-1968), Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science from (1969-1982, 1984-1985, 1987-1988, 1989-1990, 1995-1996, and 1997-2001). *Special Bulletin for 1971

This collection contains black and white photographs of students in Dr. Jay Pearson's first marine biology (undersea) classrooom, 1935. The photographs and correspondence were sent to Dr. Harding Michel from Dr. Harold Humm in 1996-1997.

RSMAS Alumni Association Scrapbook contains selected black and white and color photographs of the Deans, Faculty, staff, students; as well as the campus facilities, research endeavors, events and activities from 1940 to 1994.

The collection contains 15 photographs of “The Fair”, 1 photograph of the Commodore Ralph Munroe Marine Stadium, 28 photographs depicting scenes and people in Miami and Key West, 1 photograph shot in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1 photograph shot in Greece, and 1 photograph shot in Santa Cruz, California .

“The Fair” is a collection of fifteen 9 x 12 inch prints depicting scenes from a fair. According to a description that accompanies the images, they embody “a sense of the dark, unknown, pockets of foreboding within the happy arena of a fair. It is a look into the dark recesses, the fake walls, the grungy barkers, the dangerous looking men that strap you into a ride.”  Scenes include rides, games, and food stands, as well as an aerial view of a fair. The images are printed on acid free paper using Epson Ultrachrome inks.

The image of the Commodore Ralph Munroe Marine Stadium is a 17 x 22 inch color print depicting grandstand seating overlooking the water. The stadium was constructed on Virginia Key in the 1964 and was initially used for powerboat racing. The stadium closed in 1992 following Hurricane Andrew.

The approximately 3,000 playbills and programs in the collection include those published by Playbill magazine, souvenir brochures from Broadway, off-Broadway, and international productions, and programs from lesser-known professional theaters as well as amateur performances. The majority of these date from the 1960s through the early 2000s.

The Lenny Kaye Science Fiction Fanzine collection holds a significant number of sci-fi zines from the 1940s-1970s. 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. This collection contains fanzines from the mid-20th century, collected by the musician Lenny Kaye. The fanzines document the active subculture surrounding science fiction, including fan fiction, convention news, and fan clubs. The collection holds zines produced as part of a number of amateur press associations, including the Spectator Amateur Press Society (SAPS), the Neffer Amateur Press Alliance (N'APA), and the Fantasy Amateur Press Association (FAPA). The collection is truly international in scope, with zines produced in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Japan and several European countries present.

The Carson papers contain correspondence, newspaper clippings, outlines and drafts of campaign speeches.  The materials, dated 1915-16, document Carson's efforts to enlist a candidate in support of drainage of the Everglades, his efforts on behalf of the Farris campaign, and his views on the drainage issue.  Correspondence also provides information on the activities of other groups supporting the Farris campaign, including the Everglade Drainage and Development League, "the Commercial Bodies of Miami and Ft. Lauderdale" and the Boards of Trade of Dania and Pompano.  Additional letters and newspaper clippings provide supporting documentation on the role of the drainage issue in the 1916 gubernatorial campaign.

The 11-page publication Topicos Educacionales contains 11 essays on education in Spanish and English written by Ileana Ros in the 1980s.  It was published by Editorial AIP in Miami, Florida.

The University Archives holds 3 copies of the publication.

The 90 minute video recording contains an oral history interview of Mrs. Marcella U. (Ungar) Werblow.  She was a daughter of Arthur A. Ungar, who was a trustee of the university from 1930s to 1960s.  She was also an aunt of Leonard Abess, Jr., a former chair of the Board of Trustees.

In the interview, Mrs. Werblow discusses her childhood in Miami, including the 1926 hurricane, her education, attending the University of Miami, her father’s involvement with the University of Miami, the Orange Bowl, Westview Country Club and other community causes, as well as anti-Semitism in Miami history.

The interview was conducted by Arva Moore Parks McCabe, a renowned anthor and Miami historian, a trustee of the University of Miami, and an ardent supporter of the University of  Miami Libraries.

The oral history program was funded by the University of Miami Libraries, and the project was coordinated by Laura Capell, Digital Special Collections and Oral Histories Librarian.

This collection consists of interviews with School of Music faculty members and others recorded on cassettes. It also includes miscellaneous videotapes and a CD of the 2003 groundbreaking and celebration ceremony for the new School of Music building.

This collection contains the original printed catalog cards, along with photocopies, which describe the older items kept in the Special Collections unit of the Richter Library.

This collection contains donor files and gift accession records for items given to the Richter Library.  Access is restricted.

US Publications was the official newspaper of the United Black Students of the University of Miami in the 1970s.

The University Archives holds three issues of the newspaper: Vol. 1, No. 1, October 1, 1974 (2 copies); Vol. 1, No. 2, November 1, 1974 (3 copies); and Vol. 1, No. 3, February 22, 1975 (1 copy).

This collection includes admissions booklets, directories, handbooks, reports, yearbooks, and law school theses.

Dr. L. A. Hodson was a Miami ophthamologist who had a strong interest in zoology. Dr. Hodson, a friend of professor of zoology and University of Miami president Jay F. Pearson, ventured on a number of trips to the Bahamas (a few times with Pearson) where he discovered a number of new species and collected hard to find species. These he donated to the University of Miami.

The L. A. Hodson collection contains clippings about these expeditions; correspondence; much of which concerns the securing of his visit, the donation, and an exhibit on the Cat Turtle that was set up at Tufts College Medical School; a photograph of Hodson taken by Pearson, and two typescripts: "The Discovery of the Cat Turtle," and "Notes on the Discovery and Biology of Two Bahaman Fresh-water Turtles of the Genus Pseudemys," the latter of which was co-written by Pearson.

A collection of booklets containing recipes written about a particular ingredient and featuring the writings of several individual writers chosen from an eclectic pool of chefs, authors, and food critics. The collection presently contains 25 volumes.

The Gerald Fink Collection contains 32 photographs of the damage done to the city of Miami by the 1926 Miami Hurricane (or Great Miami Hurricane). Three of the photographs are panoramic and are by Verne O. Williams.

A handwritten and handdrawn manuscript entitled "Die versunkene glocke" (The sunken bell). Painted plates are by Maria L. Schwendt.

Harold M. Bixby (1890-1965) was a business developer who helped sponsor and organize Charles Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis" flight from New York to Paris in 1927. In the 1930's he was key in setting up Pan Am air routes in China through the China National Aviation Corp. and helped pioneer China's first trans-atlantic flight aboard the China Clipper in 1935. He later served as the vice president of Pan Am until his retirement in 1955.

A handwritten bound pamphlet by General Lloyd entitled: "A rhapsody on the present system of French politics on the projected invasion and the means to defeat it." The papers also include diagrams and maps.

"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.

The John Allen collection contains three rolls of tape documenting events celebrating the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Birth. The first roll covers a Joint Session of Congress on February 12, 1959. The second and third roll cover events at the Lincoln Museum.

The John Erskine Collection contains a lecture given by Erskine on Don Quixote at the University of Miami Winter Institute of Literature on February 16, 1940.

A manuscript of financial entries for tenants' rent payments for residences in London.

"Original artwork, including penciled sketches and watercolor mock-ups of small posters, created by this California artist for the San Francisco-based shipping line, The Grace Line (working here through a local advertising agency). The bulk of Ramm's art and papers were donated to the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art in 1994; subsequently, little of Ramm's work has appeared on the market. The group of work for a specific advertising campaign in 1931-1932 includes four watercolor mock-ups of posters/store cards from the Grace Line's 'Havana and Return' cruise; watercolor mock-up of poster for Grace Line's 'California to Victoria and Seattle cruise;' watercolor painting of an untitled cruise ship sailing along a rock coast; Ramm's scrapbook for art created for Grace Line menu cards; plus nine different sketches on tissue paper, being Ramm's rough drawings for menu card ideas." -Marc Selvaggio, Bookseller, A.B.A.A.

This collection contain 5 poems written by Karl Dahlberg, who received an honorary degree in Science from the University of Miami.

This collection contains three sound reels titled "Key West Trip."

The Lemuel Adams Papers contains a ledger belonging to Lemuel Adams. There are logged transactions from 1792 to 1804, mostly from Hartford, Connecticut; however, the ledger also contains letters written by Adams, a genealogy of the Adams family, and a few dozen poems by Adams with titles ranging from "On Life" to "Description of the Tea Party."

The Maggie Steber Photography Collection contains thirty-three signed and dated 11x14 inch color prints on art paper and eleven large framed (33 1/4" x 43 3/4") prints. The collection documents photojournalist Maggie Steber's work in Haiti from 1986 to 2010.

Evelyn Wilde Mayerson was an associate professor of English at the University of Miami and the director of its English composition program. She was also a published novelist and playwright. Her papers consists primarily of typescripts, galleys and research files.

The Minnie Moore Willson Papers document the life and career of a noted Florida writer and advocate for the Seminole Indians of Florida. The Papers also include materials related to her husband James Mallory Willson, a prominent Kissimmee businessman and a defender of Seminole Indian rights. The Papers were purchased by the University of Miami in the late 1940s from the Elizabeth Aultman Cantrell Historical Museum in Kissimmee, Florida. Selected materials from the Papers, including books, maps, pamphlets and some periodicals were removed from the collection and sent to the appropriate areas in the Library.

The collection includes material from Minnie Moore Willson as well as material from her husband James Mallory Willson. The Minnie Moore Willson Collection consists of correspondence with individuals including Florida Senator Duncan Fletcher and Florida Representative Ruth Bryan Owen.  Correspondence files also include letters with Seminole Indians such as Billy Bowlegs, Tony Tommie and other prominent Seminole Indian chiefs. The collection contains a number of manuscripts by M.M. Willson related to the Seminole Indians and such issues as the equality of blacks and Southern politics. Additional material relates to the creation of a bird sanctuary in Kissimmee, Florida.

James M. Willson's papers contain business records including correspondence, abstract of titles (original and copies) scrapbooks, and financial records from the 1880's to the 1930's (in the latter years Minnie Moore Willson handled the business correspondence due to illness). Correspondence deals with Mr. Willson's real estate and insurance business in the Kissimmee area. The files also contain manuscripts, correspondence and material collected or written by Elizabeth Cantrell, niece of James Mallory Willson. Correspondence to and from S.B. Aultman (Elizabeth Cantrell's father and brother-in-law of J.M. Willson)and letters with Dr. Howard Kelly, a family friend and widely known surgeon are also organized in these files.

The collection also includes several newspaper clippings from the late 1800's through the 1930's. The majority of these clippings are from Florida-based newspapers. Several maps of Florida have been removed from the collection and placed with Map Collection.

Also included are photographs of the Willsons, Seminole Indians, plants, and animals. The collection also includes postcards depicting scenes from Florida and the United States.

Natale Bongiovanni was a Field Captain with the U.S. Army. The Natale Bongiovanni Papers contains six notebooks in which Bongiovanni defines and provides context and etymology for every word of President Harry Truman's State of the Union Address to Congress on January 4, 1950.

The Nathaniel Hooper Collection contains one visitors' book from the Chateau Malet in France.

A small collection of documents, photographs and ephemeral items that relate to Patricia Williams' period of employment at Pan Americal World Airways. This archive contains financial records, editions of the Pan American "Clipper" newspaper, work-related correspondence between Williams and the management at PAA, information about the insurance benefits provided to PAA employees, and other related items.

9 black and white photographs by Philippe Halsman (27.8 x 35.4 cm).

3 black and white photographs by Berenice Abbott (25.3 x 20.2 cm) matted.

5 black and white photographs with an illegible signature.

The R. A. Cushman Papers contain the following items: (1) a U.S. flag, and letters from Arthur R. De Reyes, from the American Expeditionary Forces, to his mother written in 1917 and 1918; (2) three photographic prints from the U.S. Signal Corps; (3) 46 folders of reports, essays, transcripts, bibliographies, and pamphlets largely concerned with American foreign policy, touching on topics such as foreign trade, foreign concessions, foreign aid, U.S. exports, foreign banking, and immigration.

The Royal Poinciana Festival is a South Floridian festival that celebrates the royal poinciana tree's blooming in May. The Royal Poinciana Festival Records Collection holds materials pertaining to the festival, in the form of clippings, records, letters, notes, photocopies, photographs, and programs.

The Ruth Blanch Papers contains photographic slides, some purchased and some original, depicting a number of major cities in Europe as well as some in the United States and Mexico. Particularly represented in the collection are Italian cities and provinces, such as Rome, Venice, Caserta, Pompei, Naples, Padova, Milan, as well as the Vatican. Interspersed are purchased slides of famous European artworks and personal family slides.

The Shaw Family Papers contains one photograph album containing photographs from More Shaw, Eleanor Shaw, and their mother's trip to Florida from February 16, 1917 to March 15, 1917. The trip was part of an organized tour called "Season of 1917: A Tour to Florida, East and West Coasts," of which a pamphlet is included in the album. The photographs are of Jacksonville, Ocala, Orlando, Tampa, Palm Beach, and Miami.

Sidney Serebreny was a technical supervisor from 1941 to 1960 for the Pacific Alaska Division for the Pan American World Airways, Inc. The Sidney Serebreny Papers contains a typescript by Serebreny titled "Tailwind."

Photographs and negatives of Hurricane Andrew created by the students of Southwood Middle School.

This collection contains 73 photographs, taken in 1924-1925 during the construction of the east-west portion of the Tamiami Trail that runs through the Everglades in southern Florida. Some of the photographs were taken by J. F. Jaudon.

The Thomas G. Ennis collection contains 41 letters written to George Thompson from 1834 to 1838, largely concerned with business matters pertaining to iron forges; a 1929 Pennsylvania court record for John Kiner, sentenced for horse theft; a 1828 copy of appropriation for state penitentiary, Philadephia; several 19th century almanacs; and a number of 19th century newspapers, including one replica of the Saturday April 15, 1865 issue of the New York Herald, the day Abraham Lincoln's assassination was announced.

The Virginia Murray collection contains civil war ballads from newspaper clippings, some of which are contained in a scrapbook. There are some photocopies of these clippings as well.