March 27th, 2014
Photo Courtesy: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory
Marjory Stoneman Douglas’ (1890-1998) name is synonymous with Florida environmental activism. The Minnesota-born, Wellesley College graduate came to Miami in 1915, at age 25, to work as a society columnist for the Miami Herald. Her father, Frank Stoneman, was editor-in-chief at the time Read More...
Tags: Big Cypress, Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, Environmental Impact of the Big Cypress Swamp Jetport, Equal Rights Amendment, Florida environmental activism, Friends of the Everglades, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Mary Bryan, The Everglades: River of Grass, The Miami Herald, Voice of the River, women’s suffrage
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February 20th, 2014
Booker T. Washington School Building, February 15, 1930. Photo Courtesy: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory
Grab your books, head out the door, and get ready for class at Booker T. Washington Senior High School. The Overtown high school has made recent news with its nationally ranked championship football team Read More...
Tags: Black Archives History & Research Foundation of South Florida, Booker T. Washington High School, Booker T. Washington Middle School, Chapman House, Chapman House Ethnic Heritage Children’s Folklife Educational Center, Dr. William A. Chapman, Inc., Marvin Dunn’s Black Miami in the Twentieth Century, Masonry Vernacular, McHarry Architects, Miami Black Education, Overtown, Robert Bradford Browne, Sr.
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February 14th, 2014
Purvis Young in his studio. Photo Courtesy: The New York Times Student Journalism Institute
Beyond the constant roar of Interstate 95 and the scattered detritus of an era long forgotten, there are the brightly painted wall surfaces done by the late artist Purvis Young. The African-American artist, born in 1943, lived and worked in Overtown until his death in 2010 Read More...
Tags: 3rd Avenue StreetScape Project, African American Art, Culmer/Overtown Branch Library, Dixie Park Branch Library, Goodbread Alley mural, Northside Metrorail Station Mural, old main public library Bayfront Park, Overtown, Public Art, Purvis Young, Visions of the Street
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December 19th, 2013
Flagler Street at night. Postmarked July 20,1956. Photo Courtesy: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory
Famous for being the source for year-round “Sunshine Fashions,” Burdines department store was founded in 1896 in Bartow, Florida by William Burdine and partner Henry Payne Read More...
Tags: Art Deco, Biscayne Hotel, Burdine's, E.L. Robertson, J.R. Weber, Macy’s, neon Santa Claus, Seth H. Bramson, Streamline Moderne, W.M. Burdine & Son, William Burdine
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December 12th, 2013
While the rest of the country bundles up this winter, South Florida visitors and locals can spend a simmering day at the Miami Seaquarium.
Approaching its 60th anniversary, the Seaquarium opened its doors on September 24th, 1955. The $2 million project, which took 14 months of construction to create the 38-acre marine-life attraction, was the dream of wealthy Ohio industrialist Fred D Read More...
Tags: Buckminster Fuller, Flipper, Golden Dome Stadium, Miami Seaquarium, Spacerail Monorail, Wometco Enterprises
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July 11th, 2013
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Everybody in Miami -- and probably most people in South Florida -- know the office tower at 7880 Biscayne Boulevard as "the INS Building," and for good reason. Since the U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service moved in in April 1983, the building has been a flash point of protest, intrigue and controversy, as the many strands of Miami's immigrant communities tense and relax Read More...
Tags: 1960s, 1964, 1983, 7880 Biscayne Boulevard, anodized aluminum, architecture, b-roll, Biscayne Boulevard, Biscayne Plaza Shopping Center, Boulevard Theater, building, Cape Coral, CBS, Channel 4, developer, exMiami, Fifteen Group, film, film archives, Florida, Golden Gate Estates, Gulf American Land Corporation, historic, historic preservation, history, ICE, immigration, INS Building, Kevin Wynn, Learning From Miami, Little River, Miami, Miami Dade College, Miami-Dade County, Motel Row, NE 79th Street, news film, news ticker, preservationist, residential units, retail space, Steward-Skinner Associates, sun screens, tele-sign, U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, video, Wolfson Archives, Wolfson Archives’ YouTube channel, WTVJ, YouTube
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June 26th, 2013
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In the Miami Herald Christina Veiga reports that Miami Beach's Planning Board is OK with demolishing the historic Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater as part of the redevelopment of the city's 52-acre convention center district. Veiga's story also includes detailed accounts of the two development plans and the Planning Board's responses to them Read More...
Tags: 1950s, 1951, architecture, Bass Museum, building, Christina Veiga, convention center, Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater, film, film archives, historic, historic preservation, history, Jackie Gleason, Jackie Gleason Theater, Kevin Wynn, Learning From Miami, Library, Miami Beach Auditorium, Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce, Miami Beach City Commission, Miami Beach City Hall, Miami Beach Planning Board, Miami Dade College, Miami Herald, Miami-Dade County, Nautilus Hotel, promotional film, Saint Francis Hospital, short film, The Jackie Gleason Show, The Miami Beach Story, travelogue, video, Washington Avenue, Wolfson Archives
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June 25th, 2013
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The Wolfson Archives' movie tour of One Herald Plaza when it was new continues, getting into the nitty-gritty technical details of publishing a newspaper fifty years ago. The new clip in the Archives' playlist, "One Herald Plaza Memory Bank," takes viewers on a whirlwind trip through the lost world of metal type and engraved plates, beginning in the Herald's composing room and photo studio Read More...
Tags: 1960s, 1963, Biscayne Bay, Clichograph, composing room, demolition, engraved plates, engraving, film, film archives, Florida, Fred Frink, historic, history, Kevin Wynn, metal type, Miami, Miami Dade College, Miami filmmaker, Miami Herald, Miami Herald Building, Miami-Dade County, One Herald Plaza, photo studio, printing plates, stereotype, television news, TV news, video, Wolfson Archives
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June 19th, 2013
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The Wolfson Archives' look at One Herald Plaza when it was new continues with another clip in its YouTube playlist, One Herald Plaza Memory Bank. The new clip, from a film produced by Miami filmmaker Fred Frink, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the Women’s Department and the process of preparing news stories for publication Read More...
Tags: 1960s, 1963, architecture, Biscayne Bay, computer, demolition, Edwin Pope, Electron linotype machine, film, film archives, Florida, Fred Frink, historic, history, Kevin Wynn, linotype, Mechanical Department, Miami, Miami Dade College, Miami filmmaker, Miami Herald, Miami Herald Building, Miami-Dade County, One Herald Plaza, pneumatic tubes, Sportswriter, television news, TV news, video, Wolfson Archives, Women’s Department
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June 17th, 2013
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