This collection includes various types of documents pertaining to the historical and cultural production taking place in the Caribbean. Materials include correspondence, diaries, ledgers, property transactions including slave registers, reports, t...
The Architectural Club of Miami was founded in October 1977 as a not-for-profit corporation registered in the state of Florida. Created as forum for promoting and challenging architectural ideas, the Club sponsored lectures, exhibits, and events ...
National Airlines was founded by George T. Baker in 1934 and used the Miami International Airport as its base of operations from 1934 to 1980. It began offering local flights within the United States, flying almost daily from coast to coast, and q...
The UM LGBTQ History Collection contains materials that document the activities of the university's LGBTQ student groups as well as University's programs for the LGBTQ students, such as organizational records of the LGBTQ Student Center,...
This collection contains scrapbooks, loose prints, and photo albums of Canada, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Miami, Miami Beach, and other countries in South America and the Caribbean.
An ongoing collection of comics and zines added to the holdings of the University of Miami Libraries Special Collections, with a focus on zines produced in and/or about the Caribbean and Latin America, including diaspora communities. Zines are typ...
The Ava Moore Parks photograph collection consists of images of Cuban exile owned restaurants, stores and other businesses in Miami in the 1960s.Bio:Arva Moore Parks (b. 1939) is a historian, author, preservationist, and community leader from Miam...
The Architecture Faculty Oral History Project is a series of interviews with faculty from the University of Miami School of Architecture. These oral histories serve a fundamental purpose in capturing and preserving the individual memories of the ...
This collection includes regional and historic maps, original drawings, plans, elevations, photographs, and blueprints of residential and commercial architecture, community project plans, city/town plans, historic restoration plans and aerial phot...
This collection contains publications, announcements, administrative papers, reports, and ephemera associated with the University of Miami School of Architecture. It includes an executive summary, Seventy + Years of Architectural Education at the...
The Florida Philharmonic, Inc. Records contain financial records, administrative files and scrapbooks of the Greater Miami Philharmonic, which later became known as the Florida Philharmonic under conductor Brian Priestman.
Bio:In 1926 Eastern Airlines, then known as Pitcairn Aviation, was founded with the purpose of carrying mail between New York and Florida via Atlanta; not until 1930, when the company added passenger routes, did the company become known as Eastern...
The Abraham Schwaczkin collection consists primarily of Jewish cantorial sheet music and lyrics.Also included are a birth certificate and marriage certificates of Schwaczkin, a 1953 copy of the B'nai B'rith messenger newspaper, a catalog...
Biography:Janet Reno (1938-2016) was an American lawyer who was both the first woman to serve as a State Attorney for Florida - she served Dade County (now Miami Dade) from 1978-1993 - and also the first woman to serve as the Attorney General of t...
The Dr. Luis F. González-Cruz Papers document the life and career of writer and Professor Emeritus of Pennsylvania State University, Dr. González-Cruz. These works include fifteen books that include literary critiques, three volumes of poetry and ...
Conceived in 1932 by the original Orange Bowl Committee, the Orange Bowl was created as a popular tourism attraction for the New Year's Festival in Miami that would attract national publicity and bring more businesses and money to South Flori...
The Rafael Baserva Soler Papers contain the personal materials of Cuban pianist, bandleader and composer Rafael Baserva Soler. They include CDs, vinyl, and cassette tapes of Soler’s music and performances, photographs of Soler and musical figures ...
The papers document professional activities of Carlos Felipe in a capacity of a playwright and of Rosa Felipe in a capacity of an actress. The materials consist of manuscripts of Carlos Felipe's plays, in which he deals with human passions, ...