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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.

The Frederic Zeigen collection consists of materials on the foundation and early years of the University of Miami, such as constitutional bylaws, meeting minutes, Board of Regents files, first and second annual reports, and newspaper clippings on university-related events. It also contains several additional folders on his company, the Bankers Land and Investment Corporation, his interest in art and Michigan authors, and his scrapbook titled "The Idealist."

The Olga Espejo photograph collection consists of photo reproductions of rare maps held by the Special Collections of Otto G. Richter Library used for her 1995 publication "The West Indies and Florida to 1900: An annotated carto-bibliography." 

Una Austin Week, whose maiden name was Una Austin, was a professional concert mezzo-soprano singer performed in London, England in the 1910s.  The collection contains professional portrait photographs, concert programs, and press clippings of her performance appeared in newspapers and telegraphs.

The website "Voices of Andrew" provides an online archive of 66 oral history interviews with people who lived through Hurricane Andrew and experienced the subsequent recovery process in the first months after the storm.

The interviews were conducted by undergraduate and graduate students of the University of Miami under the supervision of Professor Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr., Department of Teaching and Learning, School of Education. The web site lists 66 names of the interviewees as well as 63 transcripts and 41 audio recordings of the interviews available online.

The website was developed in collaboration with the Otto G. Richter Library.

This collection contains materials pertaining to the Beta Beta Beta National Honor Society.

This collection contains various institutional research records, notes, and reports prepared by the Office of  Research and Sponsored Programs.

This collection contains materials pertaining to the University of Miami Division of Institutional Research.

The Division of Communication Services slide collection consists of 35mm slides on University of Miami-related subjects, such as UM buildings, schools and departments, athletic programs, and events dating from the 1920s to the 1980s.

This collection contains newsletters, pamphlets, reports, and miscellaneous publications from the Center for Latin American Studies, focused on both Latin America and the Caribbean.

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 consists of academic bulletins created and published by University of Miami from 1926 to 2005. The UM academic bulletins serve as an aid for undergraduate and graduate students who need information about the university's academic programs and course listings.

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 past statistics reports generated for the Richter Library's Special Collections and University Archives departments.

The Association of Hiroshima University donated five pieces of roof tiles to the University of Miami in January 2013, together with a letter from Hiroshima University's president, English brochures of the University, a picture book on the atomic bomb victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and a picture book of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake.

The tiles were collected from the bottom of Motoyasu River, which was ground zero of the atomic bomb explosion.  The largest roof tile measures 5 inches by 7 inches. Their safety is certified by the Institute of Radiation Effect (Japan) as a guarantee that they will not cause any health damage to humans.

The donor wished the tiles to be exhibited and used as an educational tool to spread the Association's call for everlasting peace and absolute opposition to nuclear weapons.  The University of Miami was contacted because it had sent Hiroshima University some seeds from a sabal palmetto tree in 1951 to help in greening the University grounds.

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.

Elizabeth Erickson was an instructor in the University of Miami's physical education program during 1928 and 1931. Her collection contains black and white photographs of students and colleagues in the program, other UM-related subjects, and Miami.

There is also a 2-page essay titled "Physical Education Program, University of Miami, 1928-1931, Elizabeth (Betty) Erickson, Instructor" in the collection.  It was written especially for the UM Archives and received on March 31, 1975.

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.

The Martha Dorn collection contains an M-Club sweater, various University of Miami publications, a portrait, newspaper clippings, and other items of memorabilia. She was a student at the university from 1936 to 1940.

This album contains programs, invitations, photographs, and press coverage articles of the dedication ceremony which took place on March 26, 1970 at the University of Miami School of Music on the Coral Gables campus.