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Opa-locka Zoo (1926 – 1935)

Opa-locka Zoo (1926 – 1935)
Cover: Opa-locka Zoo in 1926 The Opa-locka Zoo was established by Glenn Curtiss shortly after...

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El Nuevo Mundo in Bicentennial Park

El Nuevo Mundo in Bicentennial Park
Cover: El Nuevo Mundo sculpture in Bicentennial Park in 1977 Many who have visited Bicentennial...

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Avenue B & Twelfth Street in Downtown Miami (1910)

Avenue B & Twelfth Street in Downtown Miami (1910)
Featured: Avenue B looking north toward Twelfth Street in 1910 The featured photo is a...

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Aerial View of DuPont Plaza Miami in 1982

Aerial View of DuPont Plaza Miami in 1982
Featured: DuPont Plaza in Downtown Miami on August 10, 1982 The featured photo is an...

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Postcard of Royal Palm Park in 1907

Postcard of Royal Palm Park in 1907
Cover: Postcard of Royal Palm Park in 1907 View from the Royal Palm Hotel observation...

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SE First Street and Biscayne Blvd in Downtown Miami (1959)

SE First Street and Biscayne Blvd in Downtown Miami (1959)
Featured: SE First Street & Biscayne Blvd in 1959 The featured photograph is an aerial...

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Gautier Funeral Home in 1925

Gautier Funeral Home in 1925
Cover: Gautier Funeral Home in 1925 The Gautier Funeral Home opened on March 16, 1925,...

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Commodore Hugh Matheson Office in 1928

Commodore Hugh Matheson Office in 1928
Cover: Office of Commodore Hugh Matheson Sr. in 1928 Figure 1: Ad in Miami Herald...

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Langford Building in Downtown Miami in 1926

Langford Building in Downtown Miami in 1926
Cover: SE First Street on January 16, 1926 The featured photo is an aerial view...

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Miami Tribune Building in 1924

Miami Tribune Building in 1924
Cover: Miami Tribune Building at 55 NW First Street in 1924 When the Miami Tribune...

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Residential Avenue B in Downtown Miami

Residential Avenue B in Downtown Miami
Cover: Postcard of Avenue B in Early 1900s There was a time, early in the...

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Stone House in Shenandoah Addition

Stone House in Shenandoah Addition
Cover: Miami Stone House in 2022 In the heart of Miami’s historic Shenandoah neighborhood is...

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Biscayne Boulevard in May 1954

Biscayne Boulevard in May 1954
Featured: Biscayne Boulevard in 1954 This photo showcases the fine work of the women’s division...

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Bandshell in Bayfront Park in 1934

Bandshell in Bayfront Park in 1934
Cover: Bayfront Park from Bandshell on May 30, 1934 The cover picture provides a northerly...

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Biscayne Bay Yacht Club in 1910

Biscayne Bay Yacht Club in 1910
Cover: Biscayne Bay Yacht Club in 1910 Figure 1: Hopkins Plat Map in 1918 The...

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Downtown Miami Skyline in 1964

Downtown Miami Skyline in 1964
Cover: Downtown Miami Skyline in 1964 This Kodachrome photograph provides a view of the downtown...

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Nolan Brown Cadillac in 1949

Nolan Brown Cadillac in 1949
Nolan Brown Cadillac in 1949 This is a photograph of the expanded Nolan Brown Cadillac...

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World Premiere of Glenn Miller Story in 1954

World Premiere of Glenn Miller Story in 1954
Movie Premiere at Miami Theater in 1954 This is a photo of the street scene...

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Flagler Street Looking West in 1945

Flagler Street Looking West in 1945
Cover: Flagler Street Looking West from Biscayne Blvd in 1945 This photograph provides a great...

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NE First Avenue in Downtown Miami in 1921

NE First Avenue in Downtown Miami in 1921
Cover: NE First Avenue in 1921 This photograph of NE First Avenue in downtown Miami...

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Short Street Looking North in 1945

Short Street Looking North in 1945
Cover: Short Street Looking North in 1945 The featured photograph provides a glimpse of NE...

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Burlingame Island in the 1940s

Burlingame Island in the 1940s
Burlingame Island in the 1940s This is an aerial photograph of Burlingame Island in the...

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Morris Apartments on Brickell Avenue

Morris Apartments on Brickell Avenue
Cover: Morris Apartments on August 24, 1948 This is a photograph of the Morris Apartments...

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Aquila in Brickell

Aquila in Brickell
Cover: Aquila in Brickell in 2020 On April 30, 1986, the 33-story Lincoln Tower reached...

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Avenue C Looking South in 1910

Avenue C Looking South in 1910
Cover: Avenue C Looking South in 1910 This is a photograph of the intersection of...

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Brickell Bridge Looking North in 1948

Brickell Bridge Looking North in 1948
Brickell Bridge in 1948 This is a picture taken on Brickell Bridge looking north on...

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Brickell’s SE Thirteenth Street in 1952

Brickell’s SE Thirteenth Street in 1952
Figure 1: Same vantage in 1952 & 2020 This photograph was shot at the end...

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Overtown Residences & Miami Post in 1935

Overtown Residences & Miami Post in 1935
Cover: Overtown Duplex Complex on December 31, 1935 The featured photograph is of a row...

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SE First Street in 1935

SE First Street in 1935
Figure 1: Similar vantage of SE First Street in 1935 and 2020 A street once...

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SE Second Avenue in Downtown Miami

SE Second Avenue in Downtown Miami
Cover: SE Second Avenue in 1947. This article features two photos of a similar northbound...

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Relaxing in Royal Palm Park in 1920

Relaxing in Royal Palm Park in 1920
Cover: Royal Palm Park in 1920 Royal Palm Park represented many things for Miami residents...

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Avenue 3 in Downtown Miami

Avenue 3 in Downtown Miami
Cover: Avenue A in early 1900s. Avenue 3 is a short street long on historic...

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Hahn Building in Downtown Miami

Hahn Building in Downtown Miami
Cover: Hahn Building in 2018 The Hahn Building is an historically designated structure located at...

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Mouth of the Miami River in 1925

Mouth of the Miami River in 1925
Aerial of Miami River in 1925 This featured photo provides a glimpse of the mouth...

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Oxford Hotel on North Miami Avenue

Oxford Hotel on North Miami Avenue
Cover: Oxford Hotel in Ullendorff Building on February 24, 1946. The featured photo is of...

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South Bayshore Drive in 1925

South Bayshore Drive in 1925
Cover: South Bayshore Drive looking south in 1925 The featured photograph provides a glimpse of...

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Frazure House on Biscayne Blvd in 1917

Frazure House on Biscayne Blvd in 1917
Cover: Frazure House on Biscayne Blvd in 1917 Anton Hulman was a successful businessman from...

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Avenue D Looking North in 1896

Avenue D Looking North in 1896
Cover: Avenue D in 1896. The featured photo looks north on Avenue D in 1896...

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Holleman Park Methodist Church

Holleman Park Methodist Church
Figure 1: Holleman Park Methodist Church in January of 1953 As one drives west on...

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NE First Street Looking in East in 1920

NE First Street Looking in East in 1920
Figure 1: NE First Street looking East in 1920 The featured photo was taken in...

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Northeast First Street in 1924

Northeast First Street in 1924
Cover: NE First Street & NE Third Avenue in 1924 looking southwest. The photograph of...

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Bayfront Park Bandshell in 1928

Bayfront Park Bandshell in 1928
Bandshell in Bayfront Park in 1928 Less than two years after the opening of Bayfront...

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Royal Palm Hotel from Brickell Point

Royal Palm Hotel from Brickell Point
Figure 1: Royal Palm Hotel from Brickell Point in 1900. The photograph featured in this...

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Paul George Tours for 30 Years

Paul George Tours for 30 Years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTPLRUI0onU Paul George and HistoryMiami have been partnered for the past thirty years to provide...

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Olympia Theater Property in 1904

Olympia Theater Property in 1904
Cover: Future location of Olympia Theater in 1904. The center of the photograph features the...

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Construction on Biscayne Blvd in 1925

Construction on Biscayne Blvd in 1925
North Bay Shore Drive in 1925. It was common for the Miami News Metropolis to...

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Brickell’s Homewood in Ali Movie in 1977

Brickell’s Homewood in Ali Movie in 1977
Dr. James Jackson’s Brickell home was featured in a movie entitled “The Greatest”. The movie...

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Fort Dallas Park Subdivsion in 1910s

Fort Dallas Park Subdivsion in 1910s
Fort Dallas Park Subdivision The cover photo is of the Fort Dallas Park subdivision in...

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La Casa Reposada

La Casa Reposada
Cover: La Casa Reposada in June, 2017 A beautiful home with fascinating history. The video...

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S&S Diner After History Tour in 1986

S&S Diner After History Tour in 1986
Cover: S&S Diner in 1986 The cover photo is a picture of attendees of a...

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SW Second Ave Bridge in 2000

SW Second Ave Bridge in 2000
Cover: SW Second Ave Bridge looking south in 2000. The cover photo is a picture...

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Whitey Bulger Arrested in Miami Beach in 1955

Whitey Bulger Arrested in Miami Beach in 1955
James "Whitey" Bulger mug shot. The featured photo is a mug shot of James “Whitey”...

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Aerial View from Miami Daily News Tower in 1930

Aerial View from Miami Daily News Tower in 1930
Cover: Looking North from Miami Daily News Tower in 1930 The featured photo was taken...

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Homes on Brickell Avenue in 1910s

Homes on Brickell Avenue in 1910s
Featured: Homes being built on the west side of 1400 block of Brickell Avenue. The...

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Aerial View of Omni Mall in Early 1980s

Aerial View of Omni Mall in Early 1980s
Cover: Omni Mall in the 1980s The featured photo is an aerial view of the...

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Edna Rickmers Home Prior to First Presbyterian

Edna Rickmers Home Prior to First Presbyterian
Rickmer Residence at 609 Brickell Avenue in 1940s Prior to the First Presbyterian Church, the...

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Extension of SE First Street in 1925

Extension of SE First Street in 1925
Cover: Southeast First Street Extension in 1925 In preparation for the opening of the newly...

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Entrance to Castlereagh Apartments

Entrance to Castlereagh Apartments
Cover: Front entrance to Castlereagh Apartments in 1951. The cover photo is a picture of...

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First Poured Concrete Home in Miami

First Poured Concrete Home in Miami
Cover: Waddell home in 1915 The first poured concrete home in the City of Miami...

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George Merrick’s Office on Flagler Street

George Merrick’s Office on Flagler Street
Cover: Merrick Building at 158 Flagler Street in 1921 At the time that George Merrick...

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Ocean Ranch Hotel Pool in 1960s

Ocean Ranch Hotel Pool in 1960s
Cover: Ocean Ranch Hotel pool in 1960s The featured photo is a post card of...

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Miami Museum Projects Making Progress

Miami Museum Projects Making Progress
1000 Museum Condos on April 24th, 2016 Despite setbacks for both the Frost Science Museum...

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First Passenger Train Arrives in Miami

First Passenger Train Arrives in Miami
FEC Locomotive #12 to Miami on April 22, 1896 On April 22, 1896, the first...

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Jackson Home & Office Being Moved in 1916

Jackson Home & Office Being Moved in 1916
Figure 1: Dr. Jackson office and home on Twelfth Street on August 16th, 1916. Courtesy...

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Easter Parade on Flagler Street

Easter Parade on Flagler Street
Easter Parade on Flagler Street Happy Easter!! The photograph depicts an Easter Sunday Parade on...

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Mystery of the Miami Circle

Mystery of the Miami Circle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Vf8ECRoBE This BBC documentary provides the story of the discovery of the Miami Circle. The...

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Al Capone’s Miami, Paradise or Purgatory?

Al Capone’s Miami, Paradise or Purgatory?
Al Capone's Miami December 25, 2015 A new book on Al Capone’s time in Miami...

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Photographs of Miami Beach by Andy Sweet (1970s)

Photographs of Miami Beach by Andy Sweet (1970s)
Andy Sweet December 19th, 2015 Andy Sweet was a Miami Beach native resident who had...

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Miami Beach Fabulous 50s Documentary

Miami Beach Fabulous 50s Documentary
December 11th, 2015 Great documentary of life in Miami Beach during the 1950s. The Beach...

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1950 US Senate Florida Election – Smathers v Pepper

1950 US Senate Florida Election – Smathers v Pepper
George Smathers casting vote in 1950 November 14th, 2015 In the middle of the Twentieth...

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Gesu Catholic School in Downtown Miami

Gesu Catholic School in Downtown Miami
Gesu Catholic School This month’s Picture Story in the Biscayne Times features Gesu Catholic Church....

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Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962

Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962
Miami News Headline on October 23rd, 1962 October 14th, 2015 October 14th, 1962 began a...

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Booklet of 1926 Hurricane in South Florida

Booklet of 1926 Hurricane in South Florida
1926 Hurricane Booklet September 19th, 2015 Beginning on September 17th and continuing on September 18th,...

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Purvis Young – Miami’s Original Street Artist

Purvis Young – Miami’s Original Street Artist
Purvis Young at work October 23rd, 2015 Purvis Young was using the streets of Miami...

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Overtown and Good Bread Alley

Overtown and Good Bread Alley
A short video on You Tube reflecting on the early days of Overtown when it...

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The Way We Worked in Miami – Pinecrest Gardens

The Way We Worked in Miami – Pinecrest Gardens
Lecture given by Dr. Paul George at Pinecrest Gardens discussing 100 years of Miami History...

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