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Tracings, construction drawings, site plans for the home of Richard Namon at 5501 SW 93rd Street, Miami FL
Correspondence from Alfred Browning Parker to Richard Namon

Commodore Club (Highleyman House) 1402 South Bayshore Drive, aka A.J.A Fay Residence with architectural revisions by Henry Lapointe and Martin L. Hampton

The collection contains digital recordings of Antonio Rubio, PhD, singing pregones from turn of the century Havana; photos of original discs from 1941, 1947 and 1954; a photo of Antonio Rubio in the DePaul University yearbook, with other department chairmen; and an obituary for Antonio Rubio.

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

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

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.

The CINTAS Foundation, Inc. records contain artist files, applicant files, administrative files, and audiovisual materials created as part of the CINTAS Fellowship program.

The Miguel Rodez collection is comprised of clippings, magazines, and articles about the life and artistic career of Rodez.

Business records and research papers of T.A. Fennell, Jr., proprietor of the "The Orchid Jungle". (Fennell Orchid Co., Inc.). Contains correspondence, receipts, plant catalogs, stock lists, lecture notes, photographs, field notes, bulletins and newsletters from various botanical organizations.

The Pablo Ruiz Castellanos collection contains manuscripts, music scores, and correspondence.

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 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.

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.

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 consists of scrapbooks containing slides, presentations, and publicity reports for the Marlboro Cup, Coca-Cola, the Fair of Spain, and the Fair of Seville in Miami produced by Sánchez and Levitan, Inc. The donation also included CDs, four VHS tapes, clippings, artist books and exhibition catalogs.

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

This collection contains materials used in the University of Miami Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Celebration exhibit, which mostly consists of reproductions of images of the university and university life mounted on foam-core boards.

This collection contains administrative records, correspondence, donor information, and other archival materials documenting his term as the University of Miami Director of Libraries from 1997-2002