"This spring of 1887 it was apparent that the Bay could provide all the boats necessary for a yacht-race, and it was decided to celebrate Washington's Birthday with an open regatta...It was a success in every way. Thus began organized aquatic sports on the Bay, the Washington's Birthday regatta afterward being a fixture of the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club, until the displacement of sails by gasoline in general interest caused it to degenerate into a chowder-party. -The Commodore's Story by Ralph M. Munroe and Vincent Gilpin, Part XV (Typescript).
Identifier
asm00150011710001001
Is Part Of
University of Miami Libraries. Special Collections., Ralph M. Munroe Family Papers, ASM0015.
The Cuban caricaturist Silvio Fontanillas (1913?-2000) prepared this cartoon most likely for the newsletter Oportunidades. It depicts the difficulties that many Cuban refugees faced in finding housing in crowded Miami.
Bohemia, April 25, 1954, p. 140. http://catalog.library.miami.edu/record=b1951875~S11; http://merrick.library.miami.edu/cdm/ref/collection/exhibits/id/391
"Meeting the Test of the War Emergency", advertisement by Pan American Airways
Description
back cover image from New Horizons, Vol. 12, No. 11, August 1942. Text reads: "Today, as the United Nations build steadily and surely towards ultimate victory, Pan American is glad that the "know how", personnel and facilities it developed during 15 years of trail blazing in international air transport so well fitted the company for the roles it is playing in the war effort - roles characterized by President Roosevelt as "of an importance which cannot be overestimated." The further perfection of skills, equipment and services under this wartime pressure will be of equally great value, we believe, in the post-war task of building a better world for free people everywhere."