Newspaper Photograph Collections at HistoryMiami: Describing Images of a Multicultural Metropolis
Item
Title
Newspaper Photograph Collections at HistoryMiami: Describing Images of a Multicultural Metropolis
Description
The Miami area has emerged as one of America's most vibrant and cosmopolitan multicultural cities. Newspaper photograph collections in HistoryMiami's archives visually document this growth, but only the photographic prints have been adequately described and are regularly used. The other, far more extensive media—negatives (most without corresponding prints), slides, transparencies, born-digital images, papers, records and artifacts—are overlooked by scholars, mainly for the lack of description. This three-year project will create finding aids for three large collections – the Miami News, the Miami Herald and Tim Chapman collections – totaling 370 linear feet and 76 cubic feet of photographs and related materials.
Program
Date
Temporal Coverage
1940 - 2012
Spatial Coverage
The geographic scope mainly covers the Miami area and southeast Florida, with other parts of Florida, the Caribbean and the Americas also represented.
Extent
370 Artifact (Including Archaeological Objects, Weapons, Machinery, Instruments, Costumes, Textiles, Ceramics, Glass, Furniture, Etc.), Image, Manuscript, Maps
Institution
Applicant Unit
Identifier
Primary Contact
Ms. Rebecca A. Smith
Request
$278,986