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- John Stiles Collins - The 5 foot - 3 inch giant, who fathered
Miami Beach. Founder of the largest avocado farm in the world,
the largest wooden bridge in the word - the smallest canal
in the world. John Stiles Collins died when he was 90 years
old, on February 11, 1928. If you should ask for his monument,
look about you, for Miami Beach is his monument. Collins was
74 when this was taken in 1912, when he started his wooden
bridge across Biscayne Bay.
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1915
- J.N. Lummus Home -1200 Ocean Drive
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1916
- Looking North along the ocean from the wooden tower at
18th Street. The white strip running up the center of the
picture is Ocean Drive.
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1916
- Looking South from the Observatory Tower.
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1916
- Native of Bahama Banks across the Gulf Stream.
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1916
- Natives of Bahama Banks across the Gulf Stream (taken from
the original photo album titled Glimpses of Alton Beach and
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1916
- Aerial view of Government Cut.
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Surf
bathing at the Smith casino, 1916.
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MacArthur
Causeway 1918
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1919
- County Causeway, Palm and Star Islands and the south end
of Miami Beach.
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1919
- Miami Beach Parks Mid-winter surf bathing Alton Beach.
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1919
- South Beach and 12th Street.
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1919
- Polo grounds La Gorce.
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1919
- Roman Pools
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1919
-Bathing beauties on Miami Beach
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1919
Bathing beauty
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1920
- The first board of governors of the Miami Beach Chamber
of Commerce.
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1920's
- B&W Photograph Miami Parks William J. Bryan speaking
in Royal Palm Park, in downtown Miami. Photo by A. Kaufmann.
( Bryan, William Jennings (1860-1925) -- also known as William
J. Bryan; "The Great Commoner"; "The Peerless
Leader"; "The Silver-Tongued Orator"; "The
Boy Orator of the Platte" -- ran for president three
times.
Bryan had a home in Coconut Grove and was a vocal promoter
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| 1920
- The Allison Aquarium, located at Fifth Street and the bay. |
Early
1920s Rose Weiss "the mother of Miami Beach" and
Billy Heins ride Rosie the elephant, while Pancoast and
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1920
South Beach Pier; Left to Right 1) Dr. Wolf, 3) Peter Robinou,
5, Walter Kohlepp, 7) Sam Boyer. There is a possibility
that these were students or professors at the Miami Beach
Aquarium.
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Miami
Beach Casino 1920
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Venetian
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1920's Coral Rock House - photo
copy by Matlack - donated by Dr. Abraham Lavender
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1920's
B&W Miami Beach's first Post Office.
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1921
Traffic on Causeway approaching Miami Beach viaduct -
showing Star Island bridge in the distance.
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1921
- Miami Beach Police Department
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1921
- Miami Beach Officials. Pictured: Captain Henning,
T.F.
James (Mayor, 1920-22), C.W. Chase Sr., Mrs.Brock,
T. J.
Pancoast,C.W. Tomlinson,Oliver Searing, Mr. Hardie, Mr.
Hutcheson.
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1921
- February 23, 1921 - Cuban army and American polo teams
in front of the polo clubhouse.
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1921
- Four generations: Mr. John S. Collins, Mrs. T. J. Pancoast,
Arthur Pancoast and his child.
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1921
- Flagler Memorial Monument on the island opposite to Flamingo
Hotel.
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1921
- February 21, 1921 - The Cuban steamship Hatuey, the first
ship to land at the docks by the power house . It brought
a Cuban band and the polo players. The larger ship operated
between Miami Beach and Havana.
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1921
- Looking east on Fifth Street from Alton Road.
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1921
- B&W photo, Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce reunion,
among them are Carrie Berry, Rose Weiss, Margaret Brown and
Bill Scott.
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January
1921 Winter Brothers of Miami - Panoramic view.
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December
21, 1922 Venetian Islands under construction
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1923
- Carl Graham Fisher - Genius, industrialist, humanitarian,
pioneer builder of Miami Beach.
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1923
- Rosie, the elephant, moving concrete blocks.
Nautilus Hotel in the background.
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1923
- Nov. 1, 1923 - The Venetian Islands under construction.
Collins Bridge at the extreme left.
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1923
- Gas Station and Ice Cream Stand |
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1923
Hand painted Post card, "Fischer's, (Fisher's) Miami
(Miami Beach), Florida showing Miami Beach Casino and Roman
Pools.
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1923
Seminole Indians and Henri Levy in the center - Seminole
Indians friends, photographed to attract prospective real
estate buyers. Donated by June Newbauer.
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1923
B&W photograph of Miami Beach Senior High School
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1923
Rosie carrying building blocks for Nautilus Hotel. Photo
by Ed Hancock. The gentleman near the elephant is Andy Chakiris,
(Aristotles Ares' father). Hancock worked at the Building
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July
23, 1923 South of Pancoast Hotel
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1924
The Roman Pools water spout seen in the background.
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1924
- The Wofford and Breakers Hotel
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1924 - Post card showing Pancoast Lake, photo taken in 1924
- the caption reads "1955. On Pancoast Lake, Miami
Beach, Florida.
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1924
Hand painted Post card Miami Beach Casino and Pools |
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1924
1030 Washington Avenue - Coral Rock house built by Henri
Levy
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1924
The Levy family during a picnic at the Coral Rock House |
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1924
Front view of the Coral Rock House
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February
20, 1924 Seminole Beach, Ocean Drive
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1925
Captain Lindsey on the right, and Jack Dempsey on the
left, who was part owner of the Dempsey-Vanderbilt Hotel
on Collins Avenue between 20th and 21st Streets. This
photo was taken in February of 1925 on the beach side
of the hotel.
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Circa
1925 - B&W photo taken on the deck on the old Roman Pools,
23rd Street and the Ocean, showing George Smathers, chairman
of the board of the First National Bank in the 1960s,
and his brother George, U.S. Senator at that time. Left
to right are Frank Smathers, Lillian Eberwine, Billie
Hutchinson, Charles Tiny Gound, Warren Locke, George
Smathers, Ann Booker and Stanley Pederday.
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1926
September 19, 1926 - Corner of 13th Street and Drexel
Avenue, Miami Beach after the storm The 1926 storm hit
well before the days of satellite and radar - in fact, it
was before we even started naming hurricanes. Greater Miami's
300,000 residents went to bed on the night of the 17th expecting
high winds and rain. But they didn't expect sustained winds
of more than 120 miles per hour. When the hurricane's eye
moved through at dawn, people and cars swarmed into the
streets to see the wreckage, only to be trapped by the second
half of the storm. More than 200 people died. Quote
from the Weather Notebook, a production of the Mount Washington
Observatory.
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1926
- June 17, 1926 - Spanish Village (Española Way)
looking west from Washington Avenue
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1926
- Looking north from the Roney Plaza Hotel
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1926
B&W Post card showing McArthur Causeway - beach end and
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September 19, 1926 - B&W photo, Miami Beach after the storm,
showing the Postal Telegraph building on the right and SCP
on the left. Unknown street.
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September 18, 1926 - B&W photo, Miami Beach Hurricane Washington
Avenue after the hurricane. |
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May 1926 Miss Russell, Edith Birch, unidentified woman,
Betty Stolpmann and Mrs. Smith in Carl Fisher's yacht "Shadow"
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May 1926 Carl Fisher's yacht "Shadow." |
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1927
- April 17, 1927 - Easter Sunday Service at 5:45 a.m. Over
25,000 people participated in this event, to pray and hope
for the recovery of Miami Beach after the devastating Hurricane
of 1926.
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1927
- Color photo - Ocean front from Lincoln Road to 30th Street,
Shamis (Hampton-Court Apts), Roney Plaza, 23rd Street, Wofford
Hotel and Breakers, 24th Street, Pancoast Resident, Pancoast
Lake and Pancoast Hotel, 29th Street. (Pancoast House, at
the north side of Pancoast Lake is now condominiums.
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March
1927 Lincoln Road, on the left is the Van Dykes Café
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1928
- Rosie and the Kids.
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1928
- Miami Beach City Hall and Fire Station at 617 Collins
Avenue.
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1928
- Swimming instructors at the Roman Pool.
The structure was repaired after the storm of 1926
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1929
- Nautilus Hotel now Mt. Sinai Hospital
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1929
B&W photos Bathing beauties in Lost Shoe Race.
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