Travel, Tourism and Urban Growth in Miami

Transportation Bibliography
	Florida Photographic Collection Tallahassee: State Archives of Florida, Florida Department of State, State Library and Archives of Florida, 199x. The Florida Photographic Collection, a component of the State Archives of Florida, contains thousands photographs, postcards and other images recording life and development in Miami from the late nineteenth century to present. Of note are the photographs of W.A. Fishbaugh, G.W. Romer, and the Miami images in the Postcard Collection, the Wendler Collection, and the MOSAIC collection of Jewish life in Florida.
	Akin, Edward N. Flagler, Rockefeller Partner and Florida Baron Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1988. The book opens with a look at the young Henry Flagler. It focuses on his business partnership with Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company, underlining the combined impact of the oil industry and railroad expansion to the development of Miami and the Keys.
	Arend, Geoffrey Great Airports: Miami International New York, NY: Air Cargo News, 1986. Arend highlights the history of the aeronautic industry in Florida with a special emphasis on the history of the Miami International Airport. The book also includes a number of illustrations.
	Bramson, Seth H. Speedway to Sunshine Erin, Ontario: The Boston Mills Press, 1984. This book is a complete history of the Florida East Coast Railway, detailing the company's trials and tribulations through periods of boom, bust, and natural calamities. The book also includes information pertaining to all things dealing with the railway's operations, schedules, and mechanical equipment.
	Bramson, Seth H. Speedway to Sunshine: The Story of the Florida East Coast Railway Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press, 2003. This book is an updated version of the 1984 Speedway to Sunshine. It is a complete history of the Florida East Coast Railway, detailing the company's trials and tribulations through periods of boom, bust, and natural calamities. The book also includes information pertaining to all things dealing with the railway's operations, schedules, and mechanical equipment. Bramson has added four chapters that deal with the Florida East Coast Railway since 1984.
	Brownell, Blair A. and David R. Goldfield, eds. The City in Southern History: The Growth of Urban Civilization in the South. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1977. Discusses the growth of both old and new southern cities, the subsequent influences behind these developments,and Post-Civil War race relations.
	Chandler, David L. Henry Flagler: The Astonishing Life and Times of the Visionary Robber Baron Who Founded Florida New York, NY: Macmillan, 1986. This book, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chandler, provides a biography of Flagler (1830-1913), co-founder of Standard Oil with John D. Rockefeller and pioneer in the development of Florida. It includes a great deal of information on Flagler's early years from ages fifteen to forty, as well as on the fate of his Palm Beach house, Whitehall.
	Derr, Mark Some Kind of Paradise: A Chronicle of Man and the Land in Florida New York, NY: William Morrow and Co., 1989. This book is an environmental history of the state of Florida. It chronicles the early years of settlement through the first half of the twentieth century and up to today, concentrating largely on the southeastern coast and the Everglades. Derr also discusses, in detail, the roles of prominent citizens like Henry Flagler in shaping South Florida as a tropical mecca.
	Douglas, Marjory Stoneman Florida: The Long Frontier New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1967. This book is a general history of the state of Florida. Douglas examines a plethora of topics - from the exploration of Florida by the Spanish and the Seminole Wars to Florida's role in the Civil War and the impact of Reconstruction. For her, Florida's status as a relatively unsettled frontier zone was only brought to an end with the completion of Henry Flagler's railroad to Key West in the early twentieth century.
	Florida International University Libraries Miami Metropolitan Archive Miami, FL: State University System of Florida , Publication of Archival Library & Museum Materials, 2003. The Miami Metropolitan Archiveis an ongoing cooperative effort of the Urban, Regional & Local Government Documents Department at Florida International University Libraries and the City of Miami City Clerk's Office to provide digital access to the full text of important source materials on Miami-Dade County urban development. Currently, early City of Miami City Council meeting minutes, charters, departmental annual reports, and planning documents from 1896 to 1966 are archived here.
	Lavender, Abraham D. Miami Beach in 1920: The Making of a Winter Resort Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2002. Lavender's book examines the early growth of Miami Beach. He uses the year 1920, a "milestone" year in regards to the city's development, as the point of departure for his work. It was the year in which developments related to transportation, electricity, and telephones set the city on its course to become a modern tourist mecca.
	MacFie, David "Richmond Naval Air Station, 1942-1961" Tequesta 37(1977): 38-50.
	Miami-Dade Public Library System Romer Collection Miami, FL: Miami-Dade County, 2002. Gleason Waite Romer (1887-1971) photographed South Florida from 1925 until the early 1950’s. The collection of approximately 17,000 photographs was purchased by Merrett Stierheim for the City of Miami from Mrs. Romer. It is now housed in the Miami-Dade Public Library System’s Main Library Florida Collection. The Photographs document events and places. Many homes and street shots are available that are often useful for historic restoration. Over 1000 of the images are searchable through the Library's online catalog.
	Mohl, Raymond A. "Stop the Road: Freeway Revolts in American Cities" Journal of Urban History 30(July 2004): 674-706.
	Pierce, Charles William Pioneer Life in Southeast Florida Edited by Donald W. Curl. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press, 1970. This book examines pioneer life in southeast Florida, however, it largely focuses around the life of one man - Charles Pierce - and his family. While his family moved to the Lake Worth area in 1871, Pierce's story focuses on the transformation that took place along the southeastern coast in general. He looks at what initially drew immigrants to the area, their first experiences' once they arrived, and how business and technology shaped this development.
	Wolff, Reinhold P. Miami Metro: The Road to Urban Unity. University of Miami. Bureau of Business and Economic Research. Area development series, no. 9. Coral Gables, FL: , 1960. Analyzing the social and economic conditions that allowed for the establishment of the Metropolitan Dade Government, Wolff attempts to understand the times and issues that set the stage for this change in local and county governmental structures. Taking into account these separate factors and influences, Wolff peers back and forward, trying to judge both what this centralized and highly empowered new form of Dade county government is and what it may become.
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