Opa-locka Zoo (1926 – 1935)

Cover: Opa-locka Zoo in 1926 The Opa-locka Zoo was established by Glenn Curtiss shortly after...
El Nuevo Mundo in Bicentennial Park

Cover: El Nuevo Mundo sculpture in Bicentennial Park in 1977 Many who have visited Bicentennial...
Avenue B & Twelfth Street in Downtown Miami (1910)

Featured: Avenue B looking north toward Twelfth Street in 1910 The featured photo is a...
Aerial View of DuPont Plaza Miami in 1982

Featured: DuPont Plaza in Downtown Miami on August 10, 1982 The featured photo is an...
Postcard of Royal Palm Park in 1907

Cover: Postcard of Royal Palm Park in 1907 View from the Royal Palm Hotel observation...
SE First Street and Biscayne Blvd in Downtown Miami (1959)

Featured: SE First Street & Biscayne Blvd in 1959 The featured photograph is an aerial...
Gautier Funeral Home in 1925

Cover: Gautier Funeral Home in 1925 The Gautier Funeral Home opened on March 16, 1925,...
Commodore Hugh Matheson Office in 1928

Cover: Office of Commodore Hugh Matheson Sr. in 1928 Figure 1: Ad in Miami Herald...
Langford Building in Downtown Miami in 1926

Cover: SE First Street on January 16, 1926 The featured photo is an aerial view...
Miami Tribune Building in 1924

Cover: Miami Tribune Building at 55 NW First Street in 1924 When the Miami Tribune...
Residential Avenue B in Downtown Miami

Cover: Postcard of Avenue B in Early 1900s There was a time, early in the...
Stone House in Shenandoah Addition

Cover: Miami Stone House in 2022 In the heart of Miami’s historic Shenandoah neighborhood is...
Biscayne Boulevard in May 1954

Featured: Biscayne Boulevard in 1954 This photo showcases the fine work of the women’s division...
Bandshell in Bayfront Park in 1934

Cover: Bayfront Park from Bandshell on May 30, 1934 The cover picture provides a northerly...
Biscayne Bay Yacht Club in 1910

Cover: Biscayne Bay Yacht Club in 1910 Figure 1: Hopkins Plat Map in 1918 The...
Downtown Miami Skyline in 1964

Cover: Downtown Miami Skyline in 1964 This Kodachrome photograph provides a view of the downtown...
Nolan Brown Cadillac in 1949

Nolan Brown Cadillac in 1949 This is a photograph of the expanded Nolan Brown Cadillac...
World Premiere of Glenn Miller Story in 1954

Movie Premiere at Miami Theater in 1954 This is a photo of the street scene...
Flagler Street Looking West in 1945

Cover: Flagler Street Looking West from Biscayne Blvd in 1945 This photograph provides a great...
NE First Avenue in Downtown Miami in 1921

Cover: NE First Avenue in 1921 This photograph of NE First Avenue in downtown Miami...
Short Street Looking North in 1945

Cover: Short Street Looking North in 1945 The featured photograph provides a glimpse of NE...
Burlingame Island in the 1940s

Burlingame Island in the 1940s This is an aerial photograph of Burlingame Island in the...
Morris Apartments on Brickell Avenue

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

Cover: Aquila in Brickell in 2020 On April 30, 1986, the 33-story Lincoln Tower reached...
Avenue C Looking South in 1910

Cover: Avenue C Looking South in 1910 This is a photograph of the intersection of...
Brickell Bridge Looking North in 1948

Brickell Bridge in 1948 This is a picture taken on Brickell Bridge looking north on...
Brickell’s SE Thirteenth Street in 1952

Figure 1: Same vantage in 1952 & 2020 This photograph was shot at the end...
Overtown Residences & Miami Post in 1935

Cover: Overtown Duplex Complex on December 31, 1935 The featured photograph is of a row...
SE First Street in 1935

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

Cover: SE Second Avenue in 1947. This article features two photos of a similar northbound...
Relaxing in Royal Palm Park in 1920

Cover: Royal Palm Park in 1920 Royal Palm Park represented many things for Miami residents...
Avenue 3 in Downtown Miami

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

Cover: Hahn Building in 2018 The Hahn Building is an historically designated structure located at...
Mouth of the Miami River in 1925

Aerial of Miami River in 1925 This featured photo provides a glimpse of the mouth...
Oxford Hotel on North Miami Avenue

Cover: Oxford Hotel in Ullendorff Building on February 24, 1946. The featured photo is of...
South Bayshore Drive in 1925

Cover: South Bayshore Drive looking south in 1925 The featured photograph provides a glimpse of...
Frazure House on Biscayne Blvd in 1917

Cover: Frazure House on Biscayne Blvd in 1917 Anton Hulman was a successful businessman from...
Avenue D Looking North in 1896

Cover: Avenue D in 1896. The featured photo looks north on Avenue D in 1896...
Holleman Park Methodist Church

Figure 1: Holleman Park Methodist Church in January of 1953 As one drives west on...
NE First Street Looking in East in 1920

Figure 1: NE First Street looking East in 1920 The featured photo was taken in...
Northeast First Street in 1924

Cover: NE First Street & NE Third Avenue in 1924 looking southwest. The photograph of...
Bayfront Park Bandshell in 1928

Bandshell in Bayfront Park in 1928 Less than two years after the opening of Bayfront...
Royal Palm Hotel from Brickell Point

Figure 1: Royal Palm Hotel from Brickell Point in 1900. The photograph featured in this...
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...
Olympia Theater Property in 1904

Cover: Future location of Olympia Theater in 1904. The center of the photograph features the...
Construction on Biscayne Blvd in 1925

North Bay Shore Drive in 1925. It was common for the Miami News Metropolis to...
Brickell’s Homewood in Ali Movie in 1977

Dr. James Jackson’s Brickell home was featured in a movie entitled “The Greatest”. The movie...
Fort Dallas Park Subdivsion in 1910s

Fort Dallas Park Subdivision The cover photo is of the Fort Dallas Park subdivision in...
La Casa Reposada

Cover: La Casa Reposada in June, 2017 A beautiful home with fascinating history. The video...
S&S Diner After History Tour in 1986

Cover: S&S Diner in 1986 The cover photo is a picture of attendees of a...
SW Second Ave Bridge in 2000

Cover: SW Second Ave Bridge looking south in 2000. The cover photo is a picture...
Whitey Bulger Arrested in Miami Beach in 1955

James "Whitey" Bulger mug shot. The featured photo is a mug shot of James “Whitey”...
Aerial View from Miami Daily News Tower in 1930

Cover: Looking North from Miami Daily News Tower in 1930 The featured photo was taken...
Homes on Brickell Avenue in 1910s

Featured: Homes being built on the west side of 1400 block of Brickell Avenue. The...
Aerial View of Omni Mall in Early 1980s

Cover: Omni Mall in the 1980s The featured photo is an aerial view of the...
Edna Rickmers Home Prior to First Presbyterian

Rickmer Residence at 609 Brickell Avenue in 1940s Prior to the First Presbyterian Church, the...
Extension of SE First Street in 1925

Figure 1: SE First Street in 1925 In preparation for the opening of the newly...
Entrance to Castlereagh Apartments

Cover: Front entrance to Castlereagh Apartments in 1951. The cover photo is a picture of...
First Poured Concrete Home in Miami

Cover: Waddell home in 1915 The first poured concrete home in the City of Miami...
George Merrick’s Office on Flagler Street

Cover: Merrick Building at 158 Flagler Street in 1921 At the time that George Merrick...
Ocean Ranch Hotel Pool in 1960s

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Miami Museum Projects Making Progress

1000 Museum Condos on April 24th, 2016 Despite setbacks for both the Frost Science Museum...
First Passenger Train Arrives in Miami

FEC Locomotive #12 to Miami on April 22, 1896 On April 22, 1896, the first...
Jackson Home & Office Being Moved in 1916

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Easter Parade on Flagler Street

Easter Parade on Flagler Street Happy Easter!! The photograph depicts an Easter Sunday Parade on...
Mystery of the Miami Circle

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Al Capone’s Miami, Paradise or Purgatory?

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Photographs of Miami Beach by Andy Sweet (1970s)

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Miami Beach Fabulous 50s Documentary

December 11th, 2015 Great documentary of life in Miami Beach during the 1950s. The Beach...
1950 US Senate Florida Election – Smathers v Pepper

George Smathers casting vote in 1950 November 14th, 2015 In the middle of the Twentieth...
Gesu Catholic School in Downtown Miami

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Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962

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Booklet of 1926 Hurricane in South Florida

1926 Hurricane Booklet September 19th, 2015 Beginning on September 17th and continuing on September 18th,...
Purvis Young – Miami’s Original Street Artist

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Overtown and Good Bread Alley

A short video on You Tube reflecting on the early days of Overtown when it...
The Way We Worked in Miami – Pinecrest Gardens

Lecture given by Dr. Paul George at Pinecrest Gardens discussing 100 years of Miami History...