The Miami Beach Jaycees is a Florida chapter of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees for short). The not-for profit organization was founded in 1920 and has provided opportunities for men and women between the ages of 18 to 40 to develop leadership skills through community service. The Junior Chamber of Commerce International Headquarters was moved to Miami Beach in 1955.
The Miami Beach Jaycees Scrapbook documents the civic activities of the Miami Beach Junior Chamber of Commerce form 1952-1954. The collection consists primarily of photographs of conventions and social activities of the organization as well as newspaper clippings, documents, and a 1952-1953 yearbook of Miami Beach Jaycee.
This collection contains news clippings, periodicals, reports, memos, correspondence, minutes, notes, research, and transcriptions pertaining to the Miami Snowplow Company.
This collection contains audio cassettes and sound reels with transcripts of interviews of South Florida personalities by Polly Redford for her book The Billion-Dollar Sandbar: A Biography of Miami Beach (1970).
Images of South Beach structures in the process of demolition, 1 lobby interior of unidentified building (stamped on the back, "photo by Dick Kassan, staff photographer Miami Beach Tourist Development), and 1 photograph of Barbara Captiman. Other unprocessed Miami Beach and art deco related photos added.
Catalog of the Architectural League of New York's gold medal awards winners 1950-1952. On page 12 Robert Fitch Smith, Maurice Abramovitz, and John Tanner get honorable mention for the Key Biscayne Cabana Colony in Miami Beach.
