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Guide to the Carl Fisher Papers, 1896-1958
Contents
Overview of the Collection
Creator:
Fisher, Carl G. (Carl Graham), 1874-1939
Title:
Carl Fisher papers
Dates:
1896-1958 (bulk 1914-1939)
Quantity:
11 linear feet (28 boxes)
Abstract:
Automotive magnate and real estate developer Carl Fisher led in the creation of two cities (Miami Beach, Florida, and Montauk, Long Island, New York), and played a large role in the automotive industry. His transportation projects included the Indianapolis Speedway, Lincoln Highway, and Dixie Highway. Fisher’s papers contain his correspondence, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and photographs.
Identification:
1963-037
Biographical Note
Fisher's life-long involvement with the automobile industry (as salesman, racer, impresario, innovator, manufacturer, and good-roads advocate) was closely connected with his city building accomplishment in Florida. Automobiles were the basis of his fortune (Prest-O-Lite, Indianapolis Speedway) and brought about the vast influx of tourists and settlers that made Miami Beach possible. His friendships and influence among the leaders of the industry, brought to Miami Beach money and national attention, as the new tycoons of the Midwest found there a playground designed by one of their own for the brash conspicuous consumption and sports-oriented informality that characterized the period.
The flair for publicity shown by Fisher from the beginning of his career was one of the main ingredients of his success. He advertised by making news. In the early days he accomplished this by astonishing the public with physical and mechanical exploits. The attendant fame made his business enterprises prosper. Later, he sought media coverage for his undertakings by associating them with the world of celebrities--wealthy industrialists, politicians, entertainers, war heroes, socialites, sports champions--as well as by their sheer magnitude (Lincoln Highway, Miami Beach, Montauk).
He first envisioned Miami Beach as a new Palm Beach, a tropical garden of winter houses for the rich to relax in an atmosphere of luxury, refinement and leisure. He tried conventional methods (advertisements in newspapers and magazines, direct mailing of handsome booklets and brochures, etc.), with little success. He soon changed his tactics. Miami Beach was going to be a place to play rather than to rest. A sportsman himself, he was well fitted for the task. To encourage sports he built tennis courts, golf courses, polo fields, swimming pools, yacht and fishing clubs. He organized regattas, brought over entire polo teams and their mounts from England and Cuba, had a fleet of hydroplanes, speedboats, cruisers, luxurious yachts. By 1923 he was spending about $350,000 a year promoting sports in Miami Beach. This novel approach generated a steady stream of news stories from Miami Beach worth millions of dollars in publicity for his real estate ventures.
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| 1874 January 12 |
Born in Greensburg, Indiana, to Albert H. and Ida Graham Fisher.
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| 1886 |
Drops out of school in the sixth grade due to poor eyesight. Goes to work in a grocery store.
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| 1886-1891 |
Works as messenger for a bank and a clerk in a bookstore. Sells peanuts, magazines and books to train passengers.
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| 1891 |
Moves to Indianapolis, and, with $600 in savings, opens a bicycle repair shop with his two brothers, Rolly and Earle. Promotes bicycling by organizing two bicycle clubs, racing professionally throughout the Midwest, and performing spectacular stunts, such as riding a bicycle across a tightrope stretched between two tall buildings and making a 20-foot high bicycle and riding it through town.
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| 1893 |
A leading manufacturer recognizes his precocious promotional talents, and gives him a bicycle dealership and $50,000 worth of stock.
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| 1903 |
Becomes an automobile dealer, opening the Fisher Automobile Co. (agent for Reo, Packard, Stoddard Dayton). He promotes car sales by racing and getting free publicity with sensational acts, such as riding a Stoddard-Dayton while hanging from a balloon.
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| 1904 |
Sets world’s speed record for automobiles (two miles in 2:02 minutes) in the Harlem dirt track in Chicago.
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| 1904 |
Organizes Prest-O-Lite Corporation of America to manufacture carbide gas headlights for automobiles, in partnership with James Allison, future designer of the Allison aircraft engine.
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| 1905 |
Goes to Europe with the American team to compete in the James Gordon Bennett Cup Races. The Americans make a poor showing, due to the inferiority of their cars.
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| 1909 |
Builds the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a profitable business venture as well as an invaluable testing ground. He wants to make American cars supreme and Indianapolis the center of the industry.
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| 1909 October 23 |
Marries Jane Watts, 15, of Indianapolis.
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| 1910 January |
Visits Miami for the first time. He and Jane stay only a week, but plan to return and buy a winter home.
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| 1911 |
Sells Prest-O-Lite Corp. to Union Carbyde for $9,000,000.
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| 1912 |
Buys his first Miami residence, on Brickell Avenue, through the mail. Names it the Shadows.
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| 1912 |
Impressed with John Collins’ half-finished wooden bridge across Biscayne Bay, loans him $50,000 to complete it. As part of the agreement, he acquires from Collins 200 acres of beach and mangrove swamp. Loans $150,000 to the Lummus brothers for their Ocean Beach development and acquires 210 acres from them and a mortgage on all lowlands west of what will become Washington Avenue.
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| 1912 October |
Convinces leaders of the automobile industry to raise $10,000,000 to build the first intercontinental paved road, "a coast-to-coast rock highway," to be known later as the Lincoln Highway.
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| 1913 June 12 |
Collins Bridge opens. Fisher is in Indianapolis preparing to go with the "Trail Blazers" motorcade along the proposed route of the Lincoln Highway.
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| 1913 |
Lincoln Highway Association organized, with Arthur B. Joy as president and C.G.F. as vice president.
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| 1913 |
Announces that he will spend the next two years and $250,000 to develop his section of the beach into a winter resort city, "a tropical garden," with electric lights and telephones by 1914 and city water and sewerage by 1915.
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| 1915 |
Lincoln Highway is completed. It will help selling automobiles beyond the wildest hopes of its backers in the industry.
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| 1915 |
Begins campaign to build Dixie Highway, which, besides further stimulating motor transportation, will bring tourists and settlers to Florida by the millions.
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| 1915 March 16 |
Miami Beach is incorporated as a town, with J. N. Lummus as its first mayor.
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| 1915 October |
Arrives in Miami at the head of the Dixie Highway Pathfinders’ Tour caravan from Chicago, through Indianapolis, Louisville, Nashville and Chattanooga.
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| 1915 |
Buys J. N. Lummus’ land west of Washington Avenue for $500,000 in partnership with James Allison, A. C. Newby and James A. Snowden. Organizes the Miami Ocean View Co. to handle its development.
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| 1915 |
Begins building another residence, also called "The Shadows," this time on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach.
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| 1916 |
Builds (1) Lincoln Hotel, a 32-unit apartment hotel to accommodate overflow guests from The Shadows, (2) Cocolobo Cay Club, a millionaires’ fishing club on a small key near Caesar’s Creek, and (3) the Roman Pools, for some time the social center of Miami Beach.
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| 1916 |
Sells a few lots ($40,000).
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| 1917 April |
U.S. declares war on Germany. Fisher proposes using Speedway as a military airfield. His proposal is rapidly approved. He is appointed to the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics and made chairman of the Landing Fields and Flying Routes Subcommittee of the Civil Aerial Transport Committee.
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| 1917 May |
Miami Beach is incorporated as a city.
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| 1917 |
Sells $52,000 worth of lots.
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| 1917-1918 |
Builds Star Island, first completely artificial island in Biscayne Bay.
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| 1918 |
Sells $132,000 worth of lots.
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| 1919 |
Sets up the Miami Beach Bay Shore Co. in partnership with the Collins family (Fisher 51%; Collins 49%).
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| 1919 August |
Buys a 30-acre island (Fisher Island) south of Government Cut and sets up a new corporation, Peninsula Terminal Co. with the idea of enlarging the island and making a deepwater seaport. This plan is bitterly opposed by E. G. (Ev) Sewell and the Miami Chamber of Commerce, who favor a mainland location for the port. The controversy continues through the 1920s and 1930s and isn't settled until 1965.
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| 1919 |
Sells $300,000 worth of lots after deliberately raising prices by 10% and announcing that he will continue to raise prices at least 10% each year. "We try to give our customers an investment that substantially and steadily grows in value."
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| 1920 |
Builds the 150-room, $2,000,000 Flamingo Hotel. The Flamingo and the completion of the County Causeway account for the high volume of sales (almost $2,000,000) during the year of tight money that preceded the 1921 depression.
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| 1921 January |
President-elect Warren Harding spends a weekend in one of the Flamingo's luxury cottages as his personal guest. The genial Harding obliges posing for publicity pictures on the golf course with a baby elephant for a caddy and with game fish at Cocolobo Cay Club, where Fisher takes him in his yacht, Shadow K.
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| 1921 November 13 |
After 12 years of marriage a son is born to the Fishers. The child dies 26 days later. Fisher and Jane drift apart. He begins to drink heavily.
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| 1922 |
Sells "Blossom Heath," his Indianapolis home, and buys a house in Port Washington, Long Island, N.Y. Also rents an office in Manhattan to be near "where the big money is."
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| 1922 |
Agrees, then declines, to adopt a three-year-old boy. Jane adopts the child on her own.
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| 1922 |
His funds nearly exhausted by years of dredging, clearing mangroves, filling the swamps, bulk heading the new shorelines, creating artificial islands, building roads, utilities, golf courses, polo grounds, yacht clubs, hotels, schools, a church, a theatre, homes, sponsoring sporting events, etc., his great gamble begins to pay off. Lots begin to sell well. The Florida real estate boom is on.
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| 1923 |
Builds the luxurious 189-room Nautilus Hotel at a cost of about $2,000,000.
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| 1923 |
Sales reach $6,000,000.
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| 1924 |
Sales reach $8,000,000.
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| 1925 |
Sales reach $23,000,000, despite the fact that, unlike many Florida boom realtors and speculators, he adheres to a conservative, scrupulously honest sales policy. By now his fortune is estimated at $50,000,000 to $100,000,000.
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| 1925 |
Looking for a new, bigger challenge, Fisher buys 10,000 acres on the sandy eastern end of Long Island, N.Y., with the idea of developing Montauk, "the Miami Beach of the North," as a summer resort and deep-water transatlantic port.
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| 1926 |
Florida real estate boom collapses.
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| 1926 September |
Hurricane causes severe damage to Miami Beach properties. Fisher halts all work in Montauk and proceeds to clean up and reconstruct Miami Beach.
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| 1926 |
Jane goes to France and divorces him.
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| 1927 |
Sells Indianapolis Motor Speedway to a group headed by Eddie Rickenbacker.
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| 1927 June |
Marries his private secretary, Margaret Collier. Drinks heavily, gains weight, health begins to fail.
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| 1929 |
Stock market crashes. Fisher's main source of cash, payments on contracts and debts, fails as notes mature and go unpaid. Montauk bonds come due. Rather than letting down his friends and fellow investors, he makes good from the proceeds of sale of Speedway and Miami Beach funds.
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| 1930-1931 |
Various schemes to refinance Montauk fail. Montauk bonds go unredeemed.
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| 1932 |
Montauk Beach Development Corporation goes into receivership.
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| 1934 |
Bankruptcy proceedings are filed.
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| 1935 |
The Carl G. Fisher Co., a holding company comprising 21 other Fisher corporations, is taken over by creditors. Personal bankruptcy is avoided, but he is no longer a wealthy man. The Bayshore Co., controlled now by the Collins family, gives him a salary of $50,000 a year, later reduced to $25,000, then to $10,000. Personal property (houses automobiles, yachts, club memberships) are all sold to meet obligations.
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| 1935 |
Separates from Margaret and moves to small house on 51st Street. Continues to drink, despite a deteriorating liver condition which requires painful weekly drainage of about 20 pounds of excess fluid from his abdomen.
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| 1939 July 15 |
Dies at St. Francis Hospital, Miami Beach, from a massive gastric hemorrhage. |
Scope and Contents
The Fisher papers document Carl Graham Fisher’s conontributions to activities that greatly influenced American life in the 20th century, namely urban development, automotive transportation, publicity, and sports. The collection's greatest strength is the almost day-to-day picture it draws of the building of Miami Beach from a wilderness into a world-famous resort city (1912-1926). The papers also include materials pertaining to the development of Montauk (Long Island, New York).
The collection consists mainly of business and personal correspondence. The papers include clippings, photographs, legal documents, financial reports and statements, memoranda, telegrams, pamphlets and brochures, blueprints, and patents.
The Fisher Papers are organized into three series: (1) correspondence; (2) newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and ephemera; and (3) photographs. Letters and printed materials (except clippings) are filed together chronologically in folders labeled according to individual correspondents or topics, and arranged alphabetically.
Index Terms
Automobile industry and trade
Dixie Highway
Fisher, Carl G. (Carl Graham), 1874-1939
Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corp.
Lincoln Highway
Miami Beach (Fla.)
Montauk (N.Y.)
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
Fisher Papers, Historical Museum of Southern Florida
Acquisition Information
Bequest of Jane Watts Fisher, 1963.
Processing Information
It is unclear whether the file folder headings for the correspondence were established by Carl Fisher or by Polly Redford. Redford is believed to have extensively rearranged the papers while writing her history of Miami Beach, Billion Dollar Sandbar (New York: Dutton, 1970).
Bibliography
Books and documentaries that used the Fisher papers for primary research.
Davis, Mark.Mr. Miami Beach: the Remarkable Story of Carl Fisher. [video recording] WGBH Educational Foundation, c1998. 60 minute documentary, which aired on PBS television as an episode of The American Experience.
Fisher, Jerry M.The Pacesetter: the Untold Story of Carl G. Fisher. Ft. Bragg, Ca.: Lost Coast Press, 1998.
Kleinberg, Howard.Miami Beach: a History. Miami, Fla.: Centennial Press, c1994.
Redford, Polly.Billion Dollar Sandbar: a Biography of Miami Beach. New York: Dutton, 1970.
Container List
Series 1: Correspondence
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Folder |
Contents |
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| 1 |
1-3 |
Aerocar |
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4-6 |
Aerocar Company of Detroit |
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7-8 |
Allison, James |
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9 |
Anderson, William T.
Macon Telegraph. |
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10 |
Aquarium |
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11-12 |
Automobile men |
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13-14 |
Automobiles |
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15-16 |
Aviation |
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| 2 |
1-2 |
Aviation - Landing fields and flying routes |
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3-4 |
Bahamas |
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5 |
Balloons |
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6 |
Barry, William |
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7 |
Bath Club |
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8 |
Bicycles |
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9 |
Biography |
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10 |
Bishop, Mildred R. |
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11-12 |
Boat races |
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13-14 |
Boat races--Fisher--Allison trophy |
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15-16 |
Boats |
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17 |
Books |
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18-19 |
Boom |
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| 3 |
1 |
Britten, Fred A. |
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2 |
Capone, Al |
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3 |
Caribbean Club |
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4 |
Carl G. Fisher Corporation |
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5 |
Casino, Roman Pools |
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6-7 |
Celebrities |
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8 |
Champion, Albert |
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9 |
Chapin, Roy D. |
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10 |
Charities |
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11 |
Cocolobo Cay Club |
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12 |
Coffin, Howard E. |
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13 |
Collins, Irving |
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14 |
Collins - Pancoast |
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15 |
Committee of One Hundred |
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16-17 |
Corporations |
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| 4 |
1 |
Cox, James M. |
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2 |
Curtiss, Glenn |
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3 |
Deering family |
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4-6 |
Dixie Highway |
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7 |
Elephants |
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8-11 |
Estate of Carl G. Fisher |
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12-13 |
Everglades National Park |
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14-15 |
Family - Father and brothers |
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16 |
Family - Mother |
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17-20 |
Family - Relatives and family tree |
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| 5 |
1 |
Finances, To 1920 |
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2 |
Finances, 1920 |
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3-4 |
Finances, 1921-1930s |
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5 |
Finances, 1922-1926 |
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6-7 |
Finances, 1927 |
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8 |
Finances, 1929 |
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9 |
Finances, 1930 |
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10-12 |
Finances - Bankruptcies, reorganization, receiverships, etc. |
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13 |
Finances - Personal, after "crash" |
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14-15 |
Finances - Statements and summaries |
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| 6 |
1 |
Firestone, Harvey S. |
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2 |
Fisher, Jack Welsh
Adopted son. |
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3-4 |
Fisher, Jane, To 1925 |
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5-7 |
Fisher, Jane - Correspondence with Carl G. Fisher, 1929-1939 |
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8-9 |
Fisher, Jane, 1925-1968 |
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10-13 |
Fisher, Margaret Collier |
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14 |
Fisher, Margaret Collier - Bank statements |
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15 |
Fisher, Margaret Collier - Correspondence with Carl G. Fisher, 1934 |
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16 |
Fisher, Margaret Collier - Correspondence with Carl G. Fisher, 1935 |
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| 7 |
1 |
Fisher, Margaret Collier - Correspondence with Carl G. Fisher, 1936 |
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2 |
Fisher, Margaret Collier - Correspondence with Carl G. Fisher, 1937 |
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3 |
Fisher, Margaret Collier - Correspondence with Carl G. Fisher, 1938 |
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4 |
Fisher, Margaret Collier - Correspondence with Garret P. Heath |
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5 |
Fisher, Margaret Collier - Correspondence with parents |
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6 |
Fishing |
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7 |
Flagler Monument |
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8-9 |
Flamingo Hotel, 1919-1925 |
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10-11 |
Flamingo Hotel 1927-1929 |
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12 |
Flamingo Hotel, 1930-1933 |
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13 |
Fleischmann, Julius |
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14 |
Florida Keys |
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15 |
Galloway, William H. |
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16 |
Gambling |
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17-18 |
Golf |
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| 8 |
1-2 |
Hannagan, Steve |
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3 |
Harding - Presidential visit to Miami Beach |
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3-6 |
Health |
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7 |
Heath, Garret P. |
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8-9 |
Homes on Miami Beach |
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10 |
Hertz, John D. |
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11-12 |
Hotels |
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13 |
Hurricane, 1926 |
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14 |
I. I. Board - State matters |
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15-16 |
Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corporation |
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17 |
Japanese Gardens
Includes material on Kotaro Suto and Shigezo Tashiro. |
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18 |
Jews |
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19 |
Joy, Henry B. |
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| 9 |
1-2 |
Kettering, Charles F. |
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3-6 |
La Gorce, John Oliver |
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7 |
La Gorce Golf Club dedication |
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8 |
Lasker, Albert D. |
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9 |
Le Boutillier, George |
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10-11 |
Levi, John |
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12-16 |
Lincoln Highway |
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17 |
Lincoln Hotel |
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18 |
Lummus, J. N. |
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19-20 |
Mahoney, Daniel J. |
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21-22 |
Memorial Monument, funeral, mausoleum, etc. |
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| 10 |
1 |
Messing, Abe L. |
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2 |
Miamians |
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3-4 |
Miami Beach - Advertising
Correspondence. |
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5 |
Miami Beach - Biota |
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6 |
Miami Beach - Depression |
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7-8 |
Miami Beach - Development - details, 1920-1924 |
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9-10 |
Miami Beach - Development - details, 1925 |
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11-12 |
Miami Beach - Development - lights, streets, labor, construction, etc. |
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13-14 |
Miami Beach - Development - summaries |
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15-16 |
Miami Beach - Dredging |
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17-18 |
Miami Beach - Sales, 1915-1926 |
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| 11 |
1-2 |
Miami Beach - Sales, 1927-1936 |
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3 |
Miami Beach Bayshore Co. |
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4 |
Miami Beach Rod and Reel Club |
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5-6 |
Miami Ocean View Co.
Pertains to Star Island. |
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7-12 |
Milton, Thomas W. |
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13 |
Miscellaneous |
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14-16 |
Montauk - Boom, 1924-1926 |
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17-19 |
Montauk, 1927 |
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| 12 |
1-3 |
Montauk, 1927 |
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4-5 |
Montauk, 1928 |
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6-7 |
Montauk, 1929 |
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8-12 |
Montauk, 1930 |
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13 |
Montauk - 1931 and after |
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14-15 |
Montauk - Summary analysis |
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16 |
Moskovics, Frederick E. |
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17 |
Myers, T. E. (Pop) |
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| 13 |
1-8 |
National Bureau of Analysis |
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9 |
Nautilus Hotel |
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10 |
Negroes |
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11 |
Ocean front |
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12-15 |
Odell, Ann Rossiter |
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| 14 |
1 |
Olds, R. E. |
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2-6 |
Patents |
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7-8 |
Peninsula Terminal Co., 1919-1923
Relates to Port of Miami. |
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9 |
Personal |
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10-11 |
Personality
Miscellaneous information relating to friendships, opinions, etc. |
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12 |
Polo |
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13-14 |
Port of Miami |
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| 15 |
1-2 |
Port of Miami II |
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3-4 |
Port of Miami - Free port controversy |
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5 |
Port Washington, L. I. |
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6 |
Prest-O-Lite Co. |
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7 |
Prohibition |
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8-9 |
Reed, Arthur B. |
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10 |
Rickenbacker, Edward V. |
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11 |
Rogers, Will |
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12 |
Russell painting |
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13 |
St. Francis Hospital |
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14 |
Schools |
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15 |
Seiberling, F. A. |
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16 |
Sewell, E. G. |
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17 |
Shutts, Frank B.
Editor of the Miami Herald. |
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| 16 |
1 |
Soldier Key |
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2 |
Sports |
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3 |
Steamship lines -- Havana, Montauk, etc. |
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4 |
Talbott, Harold E. |
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5 |
Tennis |
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6-10 |
Treiber Diesel Engine Corp. |
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11-13 |
Tyndall, Robert H.
General. |
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14 |
Utilities |
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15 |
Vanderbilt, W. K. |
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16 |
WIOD [radio station] |
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17 |
Women |
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18 |
Wood, Gar |
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19 |
Zoology, wildlife |
Series 2: Newspaper clippings, Scrapbooks and Ephemera
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Folder |
Contents |
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| 17 |
1 |
Newspaper clippings |
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2 |
Scrapbook pertaining to obituaries and funerals |
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3 |
Scrapbook pertaining to news |
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| 18 |
1 |
Checkbook |
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2-3 |
Deeds |
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4 |
Exhibits |
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5 |
Financial statement of the Lincoln Highway Association. |
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6 |
James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children |
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7 |
The Lincoln Highway |
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8 |
Miami Beach Junior Chamber of Commerce |
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9 |
Newspaper clippings. |
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10 |
Official program of the 20th Annual Biscayne Bay Regatta. |
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11 |
Personal correspondence. |
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12 |
Record book. |
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| 27 |
1 |
Clippings: Alton Beach Realty Co. and Miami Ocean View Co. |
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2 |
Clippings: Aviation |
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3 |
Clippings: Fisher, Carl - general articles |
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4 |
Clippings: Fisher Home, Miami Beach |
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5 |
Clippings: Indianapolis Motor Speedway |
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6 |
Clippings: Memorials for Carl Fisher |
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7 |
Clippings: Miami, Miami Beach Boom Times |
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8 |
Clippings: Miscellaneous |
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9 |
Clippings: Montauk, Rhode Island, NY |
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10 |
Clippings: Obituaries, Carl Fisher |
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11 |
Clippings: Sports |
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12 |
Clippings: Streetcars |
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13 |
Clippings: W.I.O.D. radio |
Series 3: Photographic Prints
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Folder |
Contents |
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| 19 |
1 |
Boats and boating. Photo album |
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2 |
Carl Fisher funeral. Photo album. |
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3 |
Elephants on Miami Beach. Photo album, with captions. Photos by Claude Matlack |
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4 |
Yachting trip. Photo album. |
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5 |
The Shadows, Carl Fisher's home / photos by W. A. Fishbaugh. Photo album, with lengthy captions. |
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| 20 |
1 |
"Thomas M. Howell Fishing expedition to Galapagos Islands" / photographs by Claude C. Matlack. Photo album. 1934 |
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2 |
"Scenes in Fisher Pass and on the Seiberling Section of the Lincoln Highway, on the Great American Desert in Utah." Photo album, with captions. 1915-1918. |
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| 21 |
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Montauk, New York ca. 1930. 47 11 x 14 photographic prints (sepia) mounted on 13 x 16.5 inch boards. Subjects include beaches, dwellings, horse-back riding, golf, boating and scenic landscapes. |
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| 22 |
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Portraits of Carl Fisher, friends and family. |
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| 23 |
1 |
Miami Beach, 1914 |
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2 |
Miami Beach, 1914 |
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3 |
Miami Beach, 1915 |
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4 |
Miami Beach, 1916 |
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5 |
Miami Beach, 1917 |
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6 |
Miami Beach, 1918 |
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7 |
Miami Beach, 1919 |
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| 24 |
1 |
Automobiles |
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2 |
Balloons |
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3 |
Bicycles |
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4 |
Boats and boating |
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5 |
Casinos, Bathing |
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6 |
Cocolobo Cay |
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7 |
Fisher, Carl |
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8 |
Fisher, Carl - To ca. 1910 |
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9 |
Fisher, Carl - Blimp ride and airplanes |
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10 |
Fisher, Carl -- Christmas |
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11 |
Fisher, Carl - Sports
Golf, polo, etc. |
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12 |
Fisher, Carl - Studio portraits |
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13 |
Fisher, Jane? |
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14 |
Flamingo Hotel |
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15 |
Harding, Warren |
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16 |
Indianapolis Motor Speedway |
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17-18 |
Miami Beach and Environs / photos by Claude C. Matlack, 1922 |
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| 25 |
1 |
Miami Beach -- Development and Construction |
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2 |
Miami Beach Hotels |
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3 |
Miscellaneous |
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4 |
People |
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5 |
Portraits and snapshots of people |
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6-7 |
Portraits of family, relatives and ancestors. Mainly albumen prints. |
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8 |
Portrait of John C. Graham
Tintype. |
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9 |
Riley, James Whitcomb |
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10 |
Treiber Diesel Engine Corp |
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| 26 |
1 |
Yachting trips
1 unidentified. -- 2 Nassau. -- 3 Nassau and Hope Town. |
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2 |
Yachting trips.
4 Garden City. -- 7 Florida Places . -- 8 Miami and Cuba.(Miami, St. Petersburg, Tortugas, Key West) |
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3 |
Yachting trips.
9 Cuba. -- 10 Long Key and Turtle Harbor. -- 11 Miami Beach. -- 12 Miami Beach and Grassy Harbor. |
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4 |
Yachting trips.
15 Miami and Grassy Bay. -- 16 Grassy Bay and Bimini. -- 17 Miami and Grassy Bay. -- 18 Miami and Port Washington. -- 19 Port Washington and Montauk Point. |
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5 |
Yachting trips.
20 Port Washington and Montauk Point. -- 21 Port Washington and Bermuda. |
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| 28 |
1 |
Miami Beach aerial views / Richard B. Hoit. 2 items. |
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2 |
Dwellings.
3 items. |
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3 |
Florida Public Relations Association. Hall of Fame certificate, 1961. |
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4 |
Automobile racing. 2 items. |
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