Research Catalog

Photographs of Miami and other Florida locations

Title
Photographs of Miami and other Florida locations [graphic] / Gleason Waite Romer.
Author
Romer, Gleason Waite, 1887-1971.
Publication
1925-1956.

Details

Additional Authors
  • Monroe, Gary.
  • Miami-Dade Public Library. dnr
Description
11 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w; 12.5 x 18.5 cm. or smaller on sheets approx. 25.5 x 40.5 cm.
Summary
Men work in car parked on pier near line of schooners moored there, 1925; Passengers aboard the Florida East Coast Railway's Florida Special, 1935; Miss Florida, Mary Elsie Weems, with foot on running board of roadster parked between rows of palms, 1936; view from above of nude model in sun tub, 1938; Traymore Hotel Lobby, 1940, showing columns, desk; Ross Young Package Liquor store at night with window display in pirate motif, 1941; The Arnold Hotel at Surfside, 1942; Cape Florida Lighthouse, Key Biscayne, 1948, showing lighthouse, beach, palms and ocean; three men in front of Sun Ray Health Resort with catch of "dolphin," rows of fish tacked to stand, 1950; view on the Comfort Canal, the Everglades, 1954; Italianate Brickell Apartments, 1956.
Subject
  • Florida East Coast Railway
  • Apartments > Florida > Miami
  • Automobiles > Florida
  • Beaches > Florida
  • Beauty contestants > Florida
  • Canals > Florida
  • Fish
  • Hotels > Florida > Surfside
  • Interior architecture > Florida
  • Lighthouses > Florida
  • Liquor stores > Florida
  • Nudes
  • Palms > Florida
  • Piers & wharves > Florida
  • Railroad passenger cars
  • Resorts > Florida
  • Sailing ships
  • Sun-baths > Florida
  • Swamps > Florida
  • Everglades (Fla.)
  • Key Biscayne (Fla.)
Genre/Form
  • Photographic prints.
  • Silver gelatin prints.
Note
  • Printed in 1985 by Gary Monroe from original negatives held at Miami-Dade Public Library.
  • Numbered on recto, 1-11.
  • Variant of #3, Nude Model in Sun Tub, published in "The Nudist," June 1938.
Access (note)
  • Restricted access;
Provenance (note)
  • Gift of Miami-Dade Public Library, 1985.
Exhibitions (note)
  • "Sun Ray Health Resort: Catch of Dolphin" exhibited in "Photography: New Acquisitions," NYPL, 1991.
Call Number
MFZ (Romer) 93-6269
OCLC
NYPG93-F200
Author
Romer, Gleason Waite, 1887-1971.
Title
Photographs of Miami and other Florida locations [graphic] / Gleason Waite Romer.
Imprint
1925-1956.
Restricted Access
Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
Provenance
Gift of Miami-Dade Public Library, 1985.
Exhibitions
"Sun Ray Health Resort: Catch of Dolphin" exhibited in "Photography: New Acquisitions," NYPL, 1991.
Added Author
Monroe, Gary.
Miami-Dade Public Library. Donor
Research Call Number
MFZ (Romer) 93-6269
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