Photographs

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  • Refers to still images produced from radiation-sensitive materials (sensitive to light, electron beams, or nuclear radiation), generally by means of the chemical action of light on a sensitive film, paper, glass, or metal. Photographs may be positive or negative, opaque or transparent. The concept does not include reproductive prints of documents and technical drawings, for which descriptors found under "<reprographic copies>" are more appropriate. The concept may include photographs made by digital means.

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  • AAT

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Photographs

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358 Archival description results for Photographs

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Manuel Ruiz Barrera Photograph Collection

  • CHC0411
  • Collection
  • 1993-1994

The collection consists of photographs of Camagüey, Cienfuegos, and Havana, Cuba taken by Manuel Ruiz Barrera, a professional photographer and part-owner of Imageland Photography in Miami.

Ruiz Barrera, Manuel

Manuel Ochoa Papers

  • CHC0487
  • Collection
  • circa 1925-2006

The papers document professional activities of Manuel Ochoa, Cuban exile musician and choral and orchestra conductor who founded the Miami Symphony Orchestra.  The materials consist of correspondence, published and unpublished musical scores, photographs, concert programs and pamphlets, clippings, writings about classical music, minutes of the meetings, concert papers, memorabilia, diplomas, magazines, scrapbooks and working papers of Miami Symphony Orchestra.

Ochoa, Manuel

Maggie Steber Photography collection

  • ASM0218
  • Collection
  • 1986-2010

The Maggie Steber Photography Collection contains thirty-three signed and dated 11x14 inch color prints on art paper and eleven large framed (33 1/4" x 43 3/4") prints. The collection documents photojournalist Maggie Steber's work in Haiti from 1986 to 2010.

Steber, Maggie

Lydia Cabrera papers

  • CHC0339
  • Collection
  • 1910-1991

The Lydia Cabrera papers document the life and career of writer and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera, one of the 20th century’s leading writers on Cuban folklore and an internationally known chronicler of Afro-Cuban culture and religion. The materials include correspondence, manuscripts of her works, field notes, interviews, photographs, illustrations, and memorabilia. This collection also contains documentation about the restoration of several colonial buildings in Cuba.

A highlight of the collection are the libretas, or notebooks, collected by Cabrera from Santeria priests and priestesses that document rituals and religious practices of the Afro-Cuban faith. These are found in Series 3 along with her manuscripts and field notes.

Part of this collection has been digitized and is available in the University of Miami Digital Collections online repository.

Cabrera, Lydia

Luisa María Güell Papers

  • CHC5162
  • Collection
  • 1966-2008

The papers document professional activities of Luisa María Güell in capacity of an actress, singer and composer.

The bulk of material consists of clippings.  The materials also include photographs from concerts and films, covers of Guell's musical disks, Theatre programs, scrapbooks with photographs and clippings, awards, videotapes with "Homage to Edith Piaf" and "Papa Porque no Vuelves" and correspondence.

Güell, Luisa María

Luisa Amelia Borroto Figueroa collection

  • CHC5594
  • Collection
  • undated, 1945-1997

The collection contains scrapbook pages related to the Cuban Telephone Company, including a document, clipping and photographs; one document titled "Resolución No. 105" by the Empresa Nacional Telefónica "13 de Marzo," signed by Carlos Tejera Paz, 1964; and one issue of Unidad, the bulletin from Federación de Trabajadores Telefónicos de Cuba en el Exilio, Año XXXV, Nos. 419/423, Agosto/Diciembre 1997.

Borroto Figueroa, Luisa Amelia

Louis J. Hector papers

  • ASM0619
  • Collection
  • circa 1930s-2000

The collection contains the personal papers of Louis J. Hector, in the form of clippings, invitations, letters, memorandum, notebooks, photographs, and reports. Prominently represented are files pertaining to the University of Miami, the Southeast Banking Corporation, Pan American World Airways, Inc., the Civil Aeronautics Board, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Gallery, the National Humanities Center, and the Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Hector, Louis J.

Louinès Louinis Haitian Dance Theater collection

  • ASM0204
  • Collection
  • 1959-2017

The Louinès Louinis Haitian Dance Theatre collection contains photographs, pamphlets, programs, ephemera, audio-visual materials (VHS and DVDs), clippings, correspondence, and other archival materials documenting the history of the theater and its founder, Louinès Louinis.

Louinès Louinis Haitian Dance Theater

Lincoln Díaz-Balart Papers

  • CHC5262
  • Collection
  • undated, 1993-2010

The Lincoln Díaz-Balart Papers document the professional and personal activities of Lincoln Díaz-Balart in his capacity as U.S. Representative for Florida's 21st congressional district and as a member of the Florida House of Representatives and the Florida Senate. Materials in the collection include personal and legislative correspondence on issues such as education, the environment, federal and state budgets, human rights in Cuba, and immigration; and official documents on issues of immigration, international trade, Latin America and Cuba. The collection also contains press releases, audiovisual materials, photographs and clippings collected by Díaz-Balart.

Original order was retained, with papers arranged in two series: Florida House and Senate and United States Congress.

Díaz-Balart, Lincoln, 1954-2025

Lillian Frow Peacock and Eunice Peacock Merrick collection

  • ASM0410
  • Collection
  • 1860-1946

The Lillian Frow Peacock & Eunice Peacock Photograph Collection primarily depicts the earliest settlers of Coconut Grove and Miami. The collection includes portraits of the Peacocks, the Frows, and other families, as well as historically notable places such as the Peacock Inn and the Coconut Grove School. Box 2 includes a handcrafted menu from the first Biscayne Bay Yacht Club dinner at the Peacock Inn in 1891. The photograph album in box 4 includes portraits of the Peacock's English relations as well as a few of their Coconut Grove and Miami neighbors.

Frow and Peacock Families

Lex Nover papers

  • ASM0768
  • Collection
  • 1980s-2024

This collection contains an array of photographs, artwork, prints, fliers, newsletters, and promotional materials either collected or created by artist, photographer, and radio host Lex Nover and dating from the 1980s to 2020s.

Nover, Lex

Leonardo Fernández Marcané Collection

  • CHC5110
  • Collection
  • 1962-2003

The collection is devoted to the National Catholic Welfare Conference of Miami. The bulk of materials consist of 35 photographs. The materials also include some plaques and diplomas, as well as, a photocopy of Leonardo Fernández-Marcané's article "Visión Poética del novelista Reinaldo Arenas,"published in Cuadernos del Lazarillo, no. 25 (July-December 2003), pp.97-103.

Fernández Marcané, Leonardo

Leonard Albasi/Gill Family collection

  • ASM0467
  • Collection
  • 1937

The Leonard Albasi/Gill Family Collection contains eight copy negatives and ten copy prints of 1937 photographs of American pilot Amelia Earhart at an unidentified airfield, probably Miami's Municipal Field. In 1937, Earhart made her second attempt at flying solo around the world. Her preparations included a stop between March 22nd and 31st, at Miami's Municipal Field near today's Opa-Locka Airport. After leaving New Guinea on July 2, 1937, Earhart disappeared over the Pacific Ocean.

Albasi, Leonard and Gill

Leon Robbin papers

  • ASM0560
  • Collection
  • 1798

The Leon Robbin Collection contains two full-color prints of two similar engravings from the work Marriage À-La-Mode by William Hogarth. The prints are designed by William Hogarth and engraved by Thomas Cook. They are dated February 1st and October 1st, 1978, and are noted to be published by G. G. & J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row. They are sized 17 x 22 inches. Each is noted as being "fine original impression, proof before the title."

Lawson Corbett Little photography collection

  • ASM0757
  • Collection
  • 1968-2022

A collection of photographs, negatives, prints, CD-Rs, and external hard-drives full of images taken by photographer, Lawson Corbett Little (1945-2023). Also included are some copies of Western Beat Entertainment newsletter, for which Little regularly provided photographs.

Little, Lawson Corbett

Laura Zarrabeitia Papers

  • CHC5228
  • Collection
  • 1963-1997

The Laura Zarrabeitia Papers consist of four scrapbooks documenting her career as an actress in Cuba in the 1960s and 1970s.  The scrapbooks include photographs, theater programs, contracts, scripts, and clippings.

Zarrabeitia, Laura

Latin American and Caribbean photograph collection

  • ASM0304
  • Collection
  • circa 1800s-2000s

The Latin American and Caribbean photograph collection brings together various photographic materials owned by the University of Miami that depict these two regions. Currently, the collection holds a 1929 photograph album of the Bahamas made by Dr. and Adelande Dolley; a 1913 photograph album of Costa Rica, Panama, and Jamaica; a two-volume photograph album set of the Roxana Petroleum Corporation's activities in Mexico, dated 1920-1923; a set of 88 photographs of various parts of the Dominican Republic; and a collection of 739 photographs (most of which are in two photograph albums) from 1925 to the 1940s documenting the family and social life of Mr. & Mrs. E. W. Monroe and their three children while living in suburban Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1925 to 1929, and subsequently back at the family homestead in Monticello, Indiana.

L. A. Hodson papers

  • ASM0096
  • Collection
  • 1933-1948

Dr. L. A. Hodson was a Miami ophthamologist who had a strong interest in zoology. Dr. Hodson, a friend of professor of zoology and University of Miami president Jay F. Pearson, ventured on a number of trips to the Bahamas (a few times with Pearson) where he discovered a number of new species and collected hard to find species. These he donated to the University of Miami.

The L. A. Hodson collection contains clippings about these expeditions; correspondence; much of which concerns the securing of his visit, the donation, and an exhibit on the Cat Turtle that was set up at Tufts College Medical School; a photograph of Hodson taken by Pearson, and two typescripts: "The Discovery of the Cat Turtle," and "Notes on the Discovery and Biology of Two Bahaman Fresh-water Turtles of the Genus Pseudemys," the latter of which was co-written by Pearson.

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