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Box Folder No. No. Date Aerial Views 1 1 From Coral Gables to Coral Way and Sears Roebuck 1917 towards North Miami Beach, 10 miles away
2 Miami looking West on Flagler Street, from Royal Palm Hotel to Second Street at right on waterfront. 1917
3 Miami Beach, Twenty Third Street and Roman Pools, Belle Isle in upper right hand corner (Lincoln Road in lower corner)
4 Birds of the Everglades: Ibis and Egret 5 Boats: Square rig training ship in the Gulf Stream off Florida 6 Carl Fisher 1915 7 Connecticut: Old Clock, by R. Smith and Company, Watertown, Connecticut 1951
Family and Relatives of Richard B. Hoit 8 Susan A. Hanson Hoit Mother of Richard B. Hoit Sally Flanders, 1st wife of Daniel Hoit Pamelia Hill, painted by Albert G. Hoit William Henry Hoit Grandfather of Albert G. Hoit Mr. Daniel Hoit Gertie and Dell, V’s daughter 9 Self portrait of Richard B. Hoit Family group photograph, South Harpswell, Maine 1906 Eleanoer K. Hoit 1942 On the Way to Chocaloski, Indian Camp in Florida 1916 Richard B. Hoit in the Florida Keys on Thompson’s Boat Mother at Golden Orange Tea-room, Miami, Florida 1916 Gladys, Sonny and Isabel in the Island, note the long skirts they are wearing
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Box Folder No. No. Date Family and Relatives of Richard B. Hoit (cont’d) 1 10 Aunt Violet Hoit 1932 Aunt Allen, Burlington, Vermont 1933 Mrs. Fred Carpentus, Burlington, Vermont C. M. Johnson, Burlington, Vermont Richard B. Hoit Wireless Station rig outside roof 1905 Old Fire Truck from Salem, Massachusetts 1904 Walter Tucker and A Fire place made of natural rock Dick in a Tractor 1939 Portrait of Daniel Webster by Albert G. Hoit 1834 11 Negatives of prints Florida: General 12 Fort Marion, Old Spanish Fort, St. Augustine 1927 Curtiss F. Boat and Curtiss Jeanny, Miami Beach Kantmer, Pilot : Bayfront Park 1916 The Sportsman Pilot flying around the Old Florida light House 1934 Richard B. Hoit standing up in Old Packard car making movies 1915 Daytona Beach
13 From Lake Worth to Lemon City Florida in two days Spiral Staircase inside of Lighthouse, Pompano, Florida “The Bronx Cheer” Cat Head of a Ribbon Fish, South Florida Coconut Palm on Plantation Key, Florida Aerials: Taken high above the clouds, looking down on Eastern
Shores of Biscayne Keys, S. E. of Miami
Taken at 2000 ft over Ft. Lauderdale Florida 1928
Clouds above Hollywood Florida in an old “Jenny” plane 8500 ft 1916 Sunrise over the Ocean in Florida at 350,000 ft. elevation Special Collections of the University of Miami Libraries ASM0636 Richard B. Hoit Photography Collection Container List
Box Folder No. No. Date Florida: General (cont’d) 1 14 Workman Welding with electric 1940 Pan American Airways: Plane and old Ship wreck used for 1934 Publicity shots. Richard B. Hoit in Lauder boat up Lostman’s River, West Coast 1915 Cypress Boards for Market, Tallahassee, Florida Cypress Garden 1924 Arch Creek, North of Miami Cypress trees in Lake at Cypress Gardens Florida
Florida: Vero Beach 15 Wabasso Bridge, S. Florida 1969 Looking south on 37th Avenue, Vero Beach 1969 Florida palms and coconut, Vero Beach 1968 Bridge from south across the inlet at Sebastian, Florida 1969 Sebastian Inlet, Vero Beach “The Little Grass Shack” at Vero Beach: Ruth’s Store Georgia 2 16 Big Cypress Swamp of the South: Georgia and South Carolina 1921 Egrets in Georgia Lakes, Near South Carolina 1929 White Egret Fishing in Lake of South Carolina and Georgia 1929 Horse show held in Chastain Park, Atlanta Georgia 1958 Snow fell six inches deep in Decatur, Georgia 1965 17 Hoit, Richard B. with moving Camera making movies Orange Grove, Ocala 1915 Daytona Beach, Florida 1915 Bunkers, Pensacola, Florida 1915 2 18 Hurricane of 1926 Biscayne Key after the 1926 Hurricane Miami Beach and 40th Street house and car wrecked. 19 Individual: Edgar Hay at University of Miami, Coral Gables 1952 Special Collections of the University of Miami Libraries ASM0636 Richard B. Hoit Photography Collection Container List
Box Folder No. No. Date Massachusetts 2 20 Fishing at Gloucester, Massachusetts Looking up Union Street, Massachusetts Beach out at Deveraux? Crocker Park Castle Rock Marblehead: Tom and Harry Fox 1907 Mother and Grandfather House in Salem 1873 Mrs. Julie Kimble, Medford Dick Hoit, Harry Collins, Mary Franklin and Charles: River Canoeing at Newton, Massachusetts 1908 Romaine and Richard B. Hoit at West Paris, Maine 1897 Thirty six Sterling Avenue, Massachusetts Richard B. Hoit at Medford Massachusetts 1914 Little children in a Hammock in Pittsfield Massachusetts 1906 “Meeting House Hill” Unitarian Church, Dorchester, Massachusetts Adams Street, Massachusetts 1943 Hotel Massachusetts 1923 Revere Beach, Massachusetts Solid Mahogany table made at Dorchester, Massachusetts 1901 Ben Franklin Young house at the corner of Washington and Union Street Charlestown, Massachusetts 1909 Seal Rocks at Catalina Set of aerial wires on rooftop at 28 Bellevue Street, Dorchester An old Fire truck from Salem, Massachusetts 1904 Little gun mettle cannon made by Richard B. Hoit 1903
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Box Folder No. No. Date Mexico, Yucatan 2 21 Ruins of Mexico near Chichen Copies of Mayans Ruins Street scenes in Tosco, Mexico Sea going hacks of Merida Yucatan, Mexico Miami, Florida 2 22 Aerial view of Rose Bowl Parade 1927 23 Arch Creek, Stone Bridge, car on top was an old Cadillac 1909 24 Flagler Street from Bridges Store to Halcyon Hotel and 1915 Biscayne Hotel at right The Sportsman Pilot flying around Old Florida’s Light house 1934 Richard B. Hoit flying over Biscayne Bay F. Boat: Harold Kantner, Pilot and Richard Hoit with movie 1916 Camera Old Cutler Airfield looking north The Daily Cartoon: “Snap Moon High Above the Cloud” 1917 Richard B. Hoit Mother at Golden Orange Tearoom, Miami 1916 Bakers, Haulover Beach Tahiti Beach area, looking North West Old Key Biscayne Light, built 1810 Pictures of cloud formation taken in Miami, Florida 1928 Boeing 29’s and 12 jets in review at Miami Airport, Florida 1934 Richard Hoit apartment at 4th street and 12th Avenue 1936 Looking west on Flagler Street from the open structure of 1917 McAllister Hotel Viscaya Museum: Gardens of 1935 Copy of Cartoon from Elsa Pier, Miami 1917 West on Flagler Street from S. E. First Avenue, Miami 1925
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Box Folder No. No. Date Miami, Florida (cont’d) 2 25 Miami Avenue Bridge, looking from S. W. corner 1916 26 Bayfront Park, showing Hotel, Plaza, and homes along waterfront 27 Charles Deering Estate from the North -from 3000 ft elevation 1931 28 Collection of old coins and jewelry found off Florida’s Coast 1953 29 Seagull on a Lampshade, South Florida Peacock in Crandon Park South American Turkey, a proud Swan in Crandon Park Flamingo in South Florida South American Turkey 30 Cheeki Village, Everglades Coast 1915 Seminole Indian, Chocaloski, Florida 1915 Miami Skyline from the Causeway 1926 31 Elephants of the Circus Lace Spider and Webb in early morning Alligator in pen at Key Biscayne 1941 A Porpoise jumping at Seaquarium, Crandon Park 1960 32 Jumbo post card “Magic Miami” 33 Miami River: The only drain between Cutler and Lemon City 1909 34 Grapefruits on trees, South Miami 1927 Blossoms of the Yucca Plant 35 Lilly and Lilly Pods in Garden Pool 36 Fire engine house (left) and City Hall (right) 1911 37 Grilled Gateways, cunningly fashioned by master craftsmen 38 Hotel Haleyon at the corner of Twelfth Street and Avenue B now 1910 Flagler Street and 2nd Avenue
39 Miami looking West on Old Twelfth Street or Flagler Street with 1908 Smith’s Bookstore and Sewell’s Clothing store 40 Musa Isle, Part of Lawrence Estate
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Box Folder No. No. Date Miami, Florida (cont’d) 2 41 North side of Stone Dock at Elser’s Pier foot of Flagler Street 1908 Boat making trips on the Miami River 42 Old Homes of Twelfth Street, now 3rd Avenue and Flagler Street 43 Miami River, looking east from Power station chimney 1915 44 Miami Skyline from the county Causeway showing Boats and Schooners, bringing supplies during Boom days 1923 45 The Elk’s Club at corner of A Avenue and 12th Street now Flagler Street 46 The Beach Waterways, Indian Creek
47 Home of Mrs. Green, former secretary of Chamber of Commerce
48 The Tycoon Tackle Shop where Dick Hoit worked 1943
Miami Beach 49 Aerial View, showing Venetian Way and Star Island and 1923 Flagler Memorial Smith’s Casino 1912 50 Miami Beach tax payers, who watched without a groan as Hotel Owners let their public beaches erode groin by groin 51 Collins Bridge and Causeway with Miami Beach in distance 1924 Surf taken at Miami Beach in front of Roney Plaza Hotel 52 Miami Beach was merely a dense mangrove swamp, fronted by a 1905 Beautiful sea beach where mainlanders came occasionally to bathe 53 New Era Beach - Fishing Pier, washed away at the foot of Lincoln 1915 Road and Collins Avenue was laid out, sidewalk skirted the Ocean and some original coconut trees removed.
54 Harry and Mable Sparge car and house: House made entirely of 1929 driftwood by Mr. Sparge Pool of the Sazony Hotel, Miami Beach Port of Miami, Florida: Between Bayfront, 4th Street and 13th Street Curtiss F. Boat and Curtiss Jenny with Harold Kantner and Phil 1916
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Box Folder No. No. Date Miscellaneous: 2 55 A weed with ice drops Passport of Albert Gallatin 1942 $7,000,000,000 aid for Britain Bottle brush tree with hundred of red blossom 1970 The Australian Pines formed a barrier for the grapefruits Cape Henry Light House in Virginia 1908 Richard B. Hoit bureau: the old Typewriter Lions taken near Keekorok Lodge, Masai Mara, Kenya 1903 American Zinc Smelting Company, Caney Kansas 1909 Electro static machine in the American Zinc Smelter 1909 Building of experiments at the American Zinc Smelter The apartment at S. W. 21st Street Miami, Florida 1934 Negatives: 56 Lutheran Church, Miami Florida Daniel Webster Looking South on Main Street of Caney, Kansas Chilcook Pass, Alaska Chocorua Mountain, New Hampshire Union Street at Marblehead, Massachusetts Schooner entering Portland Maine Harbor Copy of invitation to the Salmagundi Club 1880 Richard B. Hoit 1915 “The General” at Stone Mountain, Georgia Fire truck from Salem, Massachusetts 1904 The little bronze gun mettle cannon, Gloucester 1904 Big Pine Tree trunks and a colored boy Bronze Candlesticks, Dorchester Massachusetts 1967
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Box Folder No. No. Date Negatives (cont’d) 3 56 Old Historic House and sign in Decatur, Georgia New Hampshire 57 Woodland around Diana’s Bath, near North Conway 1928 Oxen pulling Hayrack, Tamworth, New Hampshire 1925 Cathedral Lodge, North Conway: Moat and Cathedral in distance 1929 Looking across the Interval from North Conway 1932 Mt. Chocorua Peak from Lakeside near North Conway 1928 Old Hoit Home in Sandwich Center, New Hampshire 1907 New York 58 Cat yawning, seen through kitchen screen, White Planes, New York 1938 Early snow fall on the trees near White Planes, New York Apple blossoms, Wechester Country, New York 1935 Apple tree: Spring time in New England, Westchester County Little River, just below the Bash Bish Fall in Jaconic 1938 State Park, New York Farm of Dean Hill with twenty year old horses In the woods on a foggy morning, Dean Hill Cannon Cleopatra’s Needle in Central Park, New York 1892 Keys and his two horses drag logs on the Schneider Estate Woolworth building lighted up, New York 1911 107th Street and Broadway, New York 1911 North on Broadway, New York 1910 Orthopedic Hospital in White Planes, New York 1911 Making movies on Rye Beach, New York 1911 Through the Pines in the Berkshire Hills, of Canaan, New York 1960
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Box Folder No. No. Date Newspaper Photographs 3 59 Miami Herald: “Early Miami Lens man Richard B. Hoit” 1973 History of aviation in Miami Assembled 1930 Memories of Old Miami Magazine Rare photograph trace growth of Miami 1966 New York Times War’s pace speed up Moving to battle at 200 miles an hour The calendar says autumn is here, but amid Northern Hills the- Leaves grow like May-time blossom. North Carolina 60 Log Cabins in the spring- Little or no furniture, dirt floor 1925 Log Cabin in the mountain of North Carolina near Lake Lure 1925 61 “Pierce Great Arrow Touring Car” 1905 Seminole Indians: 62 Noah Berry in a moving picture as a Seminole Indian Chief 1915 An Old Seminole Indian in the Everglades 1905 Snow in Massachussetts: 63 Snow covered Pines in the Berkshires Hills near Richmond Snow covered: “Do your clothes feel cold and scratchy?” Berkshire Hills 1931 Pines covered with early snow fall in the Berkshire Hills of Sharpening teeth of a huge saw for cutting up to 5 foot diameter log 1940 Snow Flakes 64 A snow flake design in Vermont South America: Bolivia 65 On the Switchback Railroad of Bolivia 1917 Bolivia Railroad follows the river down through the cannons.
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Box Folder No. No. Date South America: Bolivia (cont’d) 3 65 “Whether it’s water of Fagots, a Human can haul more than the- Toughest Burro” Pig Skin ready to ship to New Jersey from Bolivia 1917 South America: Colombia 66 En-route Buenaventura to Cali, Colombia 1918 Main Railway Station in Buenaventura, Colombia 1918 Richard B. Hoit packing Camera out-fit on an old mule, 1918 Canca River, Colombia South America: Chile 67 Sheep Ranger and his dog of Patagonia, Estancias 1917 Family of Alacalyfes Indian in the straits of Magellan and 1918 Tierra del Fuego Araucanian Indians playing a rough game, like Hockey 1919 Southern Chile: “Heavy Burden for a small Child to carry” Oxen cart with wooden wheels in Chile 1917 68 Sliding down hill at Caracoles Mining Station Rotary snow plough and two engines pushing on line Unloading supplies at Railway: High Andes Mountain 1917 Ferrocaril Trans-continental line from Los Andes, Chile to 1918 Argentina, South America The S. S. Aysen, Chilean line and all aboard just before she sank 1918 Men sawing through logs on high horses 1918 Beniot planes: Pilot, Sr. Fuentes at Vina del Mar Richard B. Hoit in Bleriot Planes at Vina del Mar near Valparaiso Richard B. Hoit with deckhand and cook aboard the 26 ft. boat 69 Train stopping to unload freight at Station 1917
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Box Folder No. No. Date South America: Chile (cont’d) 3 69 Juncal Cerro Railroad Station, Chilean Boarder On the Trans Andes Railway near Juncal Station Forty miles from Cape Horn, Chile 1917 Cave of Ice near Cape Horn Richard B. Hoit on boat: Ultima Esperanza, Southern Chile Richard B. Hoit stopping on the beach: Last Hope Sound R. B. Hoit in heavy wodded Moraine at Base of Serrano Glacia in Ultima Esperanza Strait, Chile South America: Ecuador 70 Harpi Eagle On the River Bank en-route to Coco Plantation “La Maravilla” near 1919 Madra de Dios 71 South America: Peru Main Street in Cochabamba, Bolivia: Mules and Indians in deep water Arconcagua Mountain, Highest in the Andes Mountain Railroad of Peru Trains 72 “The General” at Stone Mountain Park, the engine was captured 1960 During the Battle of “Little Shanty” in the Civil War A New York Central Train near Cold Spring on the Hudson River 1946 “Double Header” Steam Engine pulling along freight train through 1951 Canaan, New York area Vermont, Massachusetts 73 After an Ice Storm, The Morning Sun catches the trees like Jewels Old stump fence in the country - Vergennes, Vermont 1929 Fence, 40 inches high in 4 feet snow A cold and isolated farm in Vermont 1932
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Box Folder No. No. Date Vermont, Massachusetts (cont’d) 3 73 Mount Mansfield near Underhill, Vermont Old covered Bridge near Waterway, Vermont 74 Big Pine Sentinel: Burlington, Vermont Oats Field near Underhill, Vermont 1932 74 Maple wood drying in Vermont 1934 Looking across Lake Dunmore, through the birch trees Camel’s Humps, Mt. The Winooski River near Bolton 1932 Afternoon sunlight through the trees near Barri, Vermont 4 75 Little Church in Stowe, Vermont: The Town of Ski slides 76 Pleasant Valley, Cambridge, Vermont 1932 Lake Champlain, Vermont Manchester, Vermont: Richard B. Hoit caught trout on this lake Vermont in the Falls An oat field stacked for drying, near Essex, Vermont 1930 Corn stacks drying in field at Grand Isle, Vermont View from North Hero, Vermont 1931 77 Rock point near Burlington, Vermont Oxen are used on the Farms in Vermont 1940 Group of people in each model of travel The old vintage car 1910 78 Old Farm, oats stacked for harvest Mr. Mansfield seen across a corn field in fall, Underhill, Vermont 1929 79 Looking South on Church Street, Burlington, Vermont 1932 Snow and Ice on Hillside, Lake Champfield, Vermont Heavy load of snow covers the pines in Barre, Vermont Oversize Photographs 4 80 Ducks with their Bonnets on at Matheson Hammock, Miami
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Box Folder No. No. Date Oversize Photographs (cont’d) 4 80 Long Key, palms once on Long Key, Florida Home of Richard B. Hoit