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Guide to the
Miami News Photographs
Table of Contents
Overview of the Collection
Repository:
Historical Museum of Southern Florida
Research Center
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
305-375-1492
archives@historical-museum.org
Creator:
Miami News.
Title:
Photographs from the Miami News
Dates:
1896-1988 (bulk 1940-1988)
Quantity:
187 linear feet
Abstract:
Photographic prints and negatives of people, places and events in Miami-Dade County, Florida and the Caribbean area. Photographs were shot by staff photographers or collected by the news library.
Identification:
1989-011
Historical Note
Founded in 1896 as the Miami Metropolis, the Miami News was for many years Miami's evening newspaper. In the 1940s the News began using photographs in the paper, and, consequently building its morgue. It systematically kept and organized photographs considered to be of enduring worth. In 1973 the paper moved to the Miami Herald building. As space was limited, the photographic prints were kept and almost all negatives were destroyed. On December 31, 1988, the Miami News ceased publication.
Scope and Contents
The Miami News photographs document events, places, and people in Dade County and, to a less extent, Monroe County, Broward County, Cuba, the Bahamas, and the West Indies. Images that record the corporate history of the Miami News are also included.
The Miami News Collection contains three series: photographic prints, negatives, and other materials. Photographic prints contain three subseries: topical, biographical, and the Jay Spencer collection. Photographic prints are mostly arranged alphabetically. Negatives are mostly arranged by size, photographer and date.
Restrictions
Restrictions on Access
The collection is open for research.
Restrictions on Use
Permission from Historical Museum of Southern Florida staff required prior to reproduction of photographs in a publication. Please contact archives staff for more information.
Related Material
Related artifacts are in the Historical Museum of Southern Florida's objects collection.
Additional photographic prints from the Miami News are in the Palm Beach Post library, West Palm Beach, Florida.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
Bahamas -- Photographs
Cuba -- Photographs
Florida Keys (Fla.) -- Photographs
Miami (Fla.) -- Photographs
Miami Beach (Fla.) -- Photographs
Miami-Dade County (Fla.) -- Photographs
Miami News -- Photographs
Photographs
Photojournalism -- 1940-1988
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Miami News Collection, Historical Museum of Southern Florida
Acquisition Information
During the 1980s, the Miami News donated a number of negatives and prints to the Historical Museum of Southern Florida. In 1989, after the Miami News had ceased publication, Cox Enterprises, the Miami News’ parent company, disposed of the paper’s assests. Through the efforts of Howard Kleinberg and David Kraslow, Cox Enterprises gave the historically important materials to the Historical Museum of Southern Florida,
Several smaller groups of photographic prints from the Miami News morgue have been donated by photographers and a historian who had borrowed them from the paper prior to 1989.
Appraisal Information
HASF staff selected the most significant photographic print files, about 25,000 out of 200,000 images. Selection criteria included: 1) images pertaining to Dade and Monroe counties, Bahamas, and the Caribbean; 2) preference for images by Miami News photographers, rather than wire service photos; and 3) files predating 1974 (images later than 1973 are in the negatives). Biographical files were selected using lists from several biographical directories as well as archivists’ knowledge of state and local history. A number of historically significant biographical files were probably missed, as time for selection of files was limited. After HASF’s initial selection of photographic prints, the Palm Beach Post library added a number of images to their paper’s files. HASF staff then selected another group of prints, and integrated them into the collection. The remainder were then destroyed.
Other Finding Aid
A database index to the negatives is in the Historical Museum of Southern Florida's archives.
Bibliography
Bellamy, Jeanne. Newspapers of America's Last Frontier. In Tequesta, no. XII (1952). Includes a history of the newspaper from its founding to 1952.
Kleinberg, Howard. Miami: the Way We Were. Miami: Miami-Daily News, 1985. Short articles illustrated with photographs from the Miami News photographs collection.
Detailed Description of the Collection
Series 1: Photographic prints, 1940s-1988
25,000 items (53 linear feet)
The photographic prints are divided into three sub-series: subject, biographical, and Jay Spencer collection. Topical/biographical folder headings in this series were established by the Miami News library staff. The subject files contain 2,043 headings; the biographical files contain 992 headings.
Most prints are black-and-white, 8 x 10 inches, but a substantial number are 11 x 14 inches. The 11 x 14 prints are filed separately, with a photocopy of the image in the corresponding 8 x 10 prints folder.
Series 1.1: Subject Files, 1940s-1988
Topics covered include: aviation, bridges and causeways, churches and synagogues, geographic places, hotels and motels, hurricanes, Orange Bowl Festival, parks, schools, Seminoles and Miccosukees, ships, sports, streets and roads, theaters, University of Miami, World War II, and so on.
Container list: A-B | C | D-F | G-H | I-N | O-R | S | T-Z
Series 1.2: Biographical Files, 1940s-1988
Container list: A | B | C | D | E-F | G-H | I-L | M-N | O-R | S | T-Z
Series 1.3: Jay Spencer Collection, 1927-1960s (bulk 1941-1959)
381 8x10 inch black-and-white photographic prints made from negatives collected by News photographer Jay Spencer after the Miami News had discarded them. Topics include World War II in Miami-Dade County, celebrities and U.S. presidents in Miami, and construction sites.
Gift of Howard Kleinberg and the Miami News, 1985.
Detailed description and container list
Series 2: Negatives, 1940s-1988 (bulk 1973-1988)
125 linear feet. Mostly black-and-white negatives.
The negatives contain photo assignments shot by Miami News photographers. Each photo assignment contains 10 to 100 individual shots. The photographers include Michelle Bogre, Michael Delaney, Bob Mack, Bill Reinke, Joe Rimkus, and Cathy Willens. Photographic prints for most of these negatives are not in the photographic prints series.
A partial database index is available in the repository.
Series 2.1: 35mm negatives, 1973-1980
45 linear feet (ca. 423,640 frames and 6,536 sets.Arranged by photographer and date. Accession number 1984-214.
Series 2.2: 35mm negatives, 1978-1988
80 linear feet. Arranged by date. Accession number 1989-009.
Series 2.3: Our Sunday Portrait and World War II negatives 1941-1960s
7 linear feet : 241 sets of black-and-white 35mm and 4x5 negatives. Accession number 1984-001.
Photo portraits of prominent men and women in Miami-Dade County during the late 1950s and early 1960s, photographs of army activities in Florida during World War II, and a small group of miscellaneous portraits.
Groups 190 through 242 comprise a miscellaneous series of negatives of members of the Florida Dairy Council; famous people, especially when visiting Dade County; and World War II army activities in Florida, 1941-1943.
Detailed description and container list
Series 2.3.1: Our Sunday Portrait, 1960-1962
"Our Sunday Portrait," a Miami News series, ran weekly from 1960 through 1962, and featured prominent Dade County citizens.
Series 2.3.2: Miscellaneous, 1958-1966
Series 2.3.3: World War, 1939-1945
Series 2.4: 4x5 inch or smaller negatives, 1940s-1960s
2.5 linear feet. Accession number 1990-012
Series 3: Other Materials
18 items.
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