This collection contains 27 maquettes (two-dimensional often colored sketches) produced by the American muralist Richard Haas (1936-) from the 1970s through the 1990s. Depicted on the maquettes are detailed sketches of murals that were showcased in the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, Florida; the Home Savings Bank in Vero Beach, Naples, Aventura, and Bradenton, Florida; the Fontainebleau in Miami Beach, Florida; and the State Offices in Jacksonville, Florida.
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.
This collection contains archival material pertaining to the University Presbyterian Church, which includes correspondence, meeting minutes, programs, committee proceedings, financial information, guest records, and other church reports.
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 manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, audiovisual materials, programs, clippings, and other materials related to her life and career.
The collection contains five scrapbooks with clippings, designs and photographs of finished buildings with examples of architectural works created by the firm Gelabert-Navia Arquitectos in Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Cuba, as well as a binder with diplomas and awards and four wooden plaque diplomas for the José Alfredo Gilbert (1927-2017) and Rosa Navia Gelabert (1929-2017). The husband and wife team were active professionally in Cuba from 1952 to 1960.
This collection contains correspondence, manuscript drafts, notebooks, drawings, sketchbooks, photographs, planners, journals, college notebooks, and other ephemera from Gloria Grasmuck's notable life and career as an artist, writer, and translator.
A collection of photographs, albums, scrapbooks, documents, monographs, postcards, ephemera, and periodicals pertaining to the Gaskell family and their history in Florida.
A collection of 151 photographs kept on 35mm slides. Most were taken in 1979 with outlying dates as early as 1978 and as late as 1987. Includes multiple pictures taken of buildings and landscapes around the University of Miami Coral Gables campus. Other pictures are of various buildings and street views around south Florida including Palm Beach, Downtown Miami, Port of Miami, Opa-Locka, Hialeah, Coconut Grove, Miami Beach, Vizcaya, and Cape Florida.
The Fundación Padre Santana records contain correspondence sent to the Fundación Padre Santana from people in Cuba, primarily during the country's Special Period from the early 1900s to 2000s. Founded in 1993 by the Reverend Francisco Santana, the foundation provided medical aid to Cubans on the island, communicating its services through radio programs.
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.
This collection contains audio-visual materials (mostly VHS) and associated digital files related to the Caribbean Writers Summer Institute, which was hosted by the University of Miami English Department and held for five weeks during the summer in Miami, Florida from 1991 through 1996. Each year the program arranged public readings and interviews at a variety of locations in Miami. The presentations were videotaped, and in 2002 the University of Miami Libraries, in collaboration with the Department of English, converted the tapes to web-based streaming media so that a wider audience might have the opportunity to enjoy the literary variety and cultural richness expressed in the writings of the participants. The recordings were reconverted to current archival preservation and presentation standards in 2017. In 2023, Professor Emerita Sandra Paquet donated CWSI conference programs, records of CWSI planning activities, history, and tributes to authors such as George Lamming. The new digitized materials add contextual information to the current Caribbean Writers Summer Institute video recordings that are part of the UM Libraries Digital Collections.
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.
This collection captures the history of the University of Miami Biology Club. Contained within are administrative documents, correspondence, exams, financial records, laboratory notes, member lists, and member photographs.
This collection contains several University of Miami treasurer's reports, financial reports, reports from the Financial Affairs Division, budgets, and plans of operations.
Promotional exhibition materials for Feliciano Centurion; José-Antonio Fernández-Muro; Neo Muyanga; Anna Bella Geiger; Magali Lara; Lea Lublin; Margarita Paksa; Gory (Rogelio Lopez Marin); Rene Francisco Rodriguez; Gustavo Acosta; Luis Enrique Camejo; Marta Minujin; Luis Cruz Azaceta; Carolina Sardi; Sara Grilo; Meira Marrero; José Toirac; Carlos Quintana; Jose Manuel ForsMarcia Schvartz
