Exploring the Pan Am Archives in Miami By Rebecca Snider Sprecher with Dian Groh After writing a novel about Pan Am flight crews and giving a number of history presentations on our airline for various community organizations, I was anxious to visit the Pan Am archives at the University of Miami’s Richter Library. I’d read many books on the history of Pan Am, but I … Continue reading A Most Excellent Adventure
Guest Writer: Barry Devine, Ph.D., English Graduate Student Researching in the archives is a slow, often labor-intensive process, but one that rarely leaves me disappointed. Each rare book or box of documents is a world waiting to be explored; sometimes you will find something once thought to be lost, sometimes you will find documents that either confirm or contradict previously held notions about a particular … Continue reading Looking for Ezra Pound, Finding a Local Treasure
by Jay Sylvestre and Steve Hersh, Special Collections Washington DC resident Guy Noffsinger has made several trips to Miami to conduct research on Special Collections’ Pan American World Airways, Inc. Records. He made sure to time his most recent visit with the “Cleared to Land” event on January 29, in which Special Collections celebrated the completion of a two-year effort in reprocessing the collection. The visit … Continue reading Life in an Archive: A Visit to the Pan Am Collection
Special Collections and the Pan Am Historical Foundation are thrilled to announce that the 2014 Dave Abrams and Gene Banning Pan Am Research Grant has been awarded to Hadassah St. Hubert. Presented by the Pan Am Historical Foundation, the award supports scholarly research using the Pan American World Airways, Inc. Records housed at the University of Miami Libraries Special Collections, and honors two of Pan … Continue reading 2014 Abrams Banning Grant Winner
Politics, Literature, and Culture in Brazil: The Leila Míccolis Collection by Tatiana Faria Over the last several months, I have had the privilege of working with an extensive collection of alternative press materials from Brazil. Most of the pieces—in the form of newspapers, magazines, newsletters, books, and comics—are from 1968-1990, a time of political unrest and oppression for Brazil. From 1964-1985, Brazil was under a … Continue reading Politics, Literature, and Culture in Brazil: The Leila Míccolis Collection
Special Collections Mosaic 