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The links on this page go to detailed descriptions of non-book holdings. For books and brief catalog records, go to the online catalog.

Architectural Records

Wilkins Archives
About the Woodrow W. Wilkins Archives of Architectural Records

Walter DeGarmo Architectural Drawings
Mission Revival and Mediterranean Revival designs for residences and buildings in Miami-Dade County and South Florida, 1906-1950 (bulk 1906-1926).

Kiehnel and Elliott Architectural Drawings
Some of Richard Kiehnel's designs for Miami Beach, Miami, and Coral Gables buildings, 1925-1943 (bulk 1938-1941).

Marion Manley Architectural Drawings and Papers
Designs for residences and buildings in Miami-Dade County and South Florida,1935-1971

Wahl Snyder Architectural Drawings and Photographs
Drawings of houses, apartments, townhouses, schools and buildings in Miami-Dade County, other parts of Florida, and the Caribbean, 1929-1982.

Archives and Manuscripts

Gilpin Family Papers
Diaries and letters written during winter trips to the coast of Florida, 1880-1921.

James Franklin Jaudon Papers
Materials relating to entrepreneurial projects in Miami-Dade and Collier counties: construction of Tamiami Trail; sugar growing and farming in the Everglades and Big Cypress, etc., 1900s-1950s (bulk 1914-1938). Digital images.

Olga Kent Collection
Newspaper clippings, ephemera, newsletters and notes on Coconut Grove, Miami, and South Florida, 1947-1978.

William Lyman Phillips Papers
Correspondence and other materials of landscape architect William Lyman Phillips, whose Florida work includes Bok Tower, various Dade County parks, Mountain Lake Sanctuary, the Overseas Highway and Royal Palm State Park.

Maps

D. D. and C. M. Rogers Manuscript Maps
Maps of Miami, Florida Keys, and the F.E.C. Oversea Extension, 1895-1907.

Prints and Photographs

Igor Polevitzky Photographs
Photographic prints of buildings designed by Polevitzky between 1934 and the mid-1960s. Views of Miami Beach and Miami residences, Miami Beach and Havana hotels, and commercial buildings in the Miami area.

Claude Matlack Photographs
Black-and-white photographs of South Florida places, people and events, 1896-1943 (bulk 1918-1942).

Miami News Photographs
Photographic prints and negatives of people, places and events in Miami-Dade County and, to a lesser extent, Florida and the Caribbean area, 1896-1988 (bulk 1940-1988).

Ralph Munroe Photographs
Views of Coconut Grove (Miami, Fla.); people; coastal places, such as the Miami River; and maritime activities on Biscayne Bay and the Florida Keys. 1883-ca. 1915.

Rudi and Annette Rada Photographs
Architectural photographs of exteriors and interiors of houses and buildings in Miami-Dade County and Florida, 1946-1974 (bulk 1952-1956). Also includes some photographs of Seminoles, Havana, and other topics.

Frank B. Shutts Collection
Autographed studio portraits of businessmen, journalists and politicians, ca. 1910-1945. Miami Herald publisher Frank B. Shutts collected the photographs, framed them and hung them on his office walls.

 

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