1883 to 1919 Miami Area Historical Photos Gallery - click on image to view Photo Gallery by Don Boyd at pbase.com

1883 to 1919 Miami Area Historical Photos Gallery - click on image to view

Most of these photos are from the Florida State Archives. Please also visit the "Downtown" Gallery for more images from this time period: https://pbase.com/donboyd/memories_downtown

For those of you who are new to computing and/or surfing the internet, this is just one page of many pages of photos on this site. The home page for our Old Hialeah/Old Miami galleries is at https://pbase.com/donboyd/memories and all the oldie galleries spin off from that page. You can also click on the yellow colored >>Memories of Old Hialeah, Old Miami and Old South Florida Photo Galleries << at top of any page to get back to the main oldies page to search other galleries.

Hopefully you will enjoy seeing the many old images on this page and in the many other historical photo galleries on this website. Perhaps the images and comments have brought back many fond memories of good times for you in the past and have helped you jog your memory of places and people you may have forgotten.

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1883 - Mouth of the Miami River and Biscayne Bay	1887 - U. S. Life Saving Service Biscayne Bay House of Refuge Station #5 (later Coast Guard Biscayne Bay Station)	1887 - Seminole Indians at Jupiter Inlet with Jupiter Light in the background	A public hanging somewhere in Dade County	1890s to early 1900s - Miami's first railroad station with horses and carriages waiting to transport passengers
Early 1900's - the rapids on the Miami River around now 27th Avenue before they were dynamited in 1908	1900's - a short Everglades railroad	1900's - the Royal Palm Hotel in Miami	1904 - the mouth of the Miami River with Henry Flagler's Royal Palm Hotel on the north bank	1905 - postcard image of the Miami River
1905 - View of the Miami skyline from Biscayne Bay	1907 - Official Directory of the City of Miami, Florida	1907 - the Dade County Court House in downtown Miami, Florida	1907 - Miami Telephone Company phone book	1907 - the view south from the Royal Palm Hotel of the Miami River and Brickell Point
1908 - Henry Flagler's first train to Knight Key over two miles of aquaduct	1908 - reflections on the Miami River	1908 - looking up the Miami River	1908 - looking east on 12th Street (now Flagler Street) at Avenue D (now Miami Avenue) in downtown Miami	1908 - looking east on 12th Street (now Flagler Street) at Avenue D (now Miami Avenue) in downtown Miami - left half of image
1908 - looking east on 12th Street (now Flagler Street) at Avenue D (now Miami Avenue) in downtown Miami - right half of image	1910 - the Bay View Hotel in downtown Miami	1910 - 1920 the Cardale Tower on the Miami River	1910 - a panoramic view of the mouth of the Miami River with Royal Palm Hotel on the far right	1910 - "Biscayne Bay through the cocoanut trees"
1912 - Henry Flagler's Royal Palm Hotel in Miami	1912 - The Class of 1912 at Miami Senior High School	1912 - the Cardale Tower and the "Lady Lou of Miami" on the Miami River	1912 - Musa Isle Fruit Farm (Richardson Grove) and the Cardale Tower	1912 - the Cardale Tower and the "Lady Lou of Miami"
1913 - 2 kids on a dead whale shark on public display	1913 - Joe and Jenny Weiss at their seafood restaurant on the south tip of Miami Beach	1913 - the Musa Isle Indian Village dock on the Miami River	1913 - the Miami River south fork and north fork with the newly dug Miami Canal (upper right)	1913 - opening of the Collins Bridge in Miami to Miami Beach - longest wooden bridge in the world
1914 - fishing pier at Lincoln Road and the ocean	1900 - 1915 - the Dade County Courthouse on 12th Street (later Flagler Street)	1910s - Postcard of the Musa Isle Canal off of the Miami River	1910's - a postcard from Mayo's Stationary Store depicting black workers preparing grapefruit for shipping	1910's - the Tea House Plantation in Lemon City (was later the American Legion Harvey Seeds Post 29)
1910's - workers clearing every mangrove tree from Miami Beach	1910 - Twelfth Street (later Flagler) at the railroad tracks with the county courthouse (left) and Miami City Hall (right)	1915 - postcard with caption "Scene in a Cocoanut Grove, Florida" depicting three black men working with coconuts	1917 - Elser Pier, downtown Miami on the bay	1918 - Terminal Island, Government Cut, Fisher Island and the south end of Miami Beach
1919 - Map of Miami and Miami Beach with old street numbering system	1919 - County Causeway, Star Island, Miami Beach	1919 - Roman Pools Bathing Casino on Miami Beach

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Guest		28-Jan-2010 05:32
As a kid i remember a "Bea" that worked at a bait/marine shop on the bay, next to Jerry Langer Marine (adjacent to the McCarthur Causeway). This would have been around 1971 or so. I'm wondering if the woman you named here could be her?

Guest		20-Jul-2007 12:54
This is for Rose - The Newton family of Miami Springs had a presence there from the mid 30's to the late 60's...Paul, Peter,Nicky, Sizy, Mimi and Marcia.....we knew the Lotts, Calverts, Dotsons, Schloetzers, Harveys, Roberts, etc., of Miami Sprs.....also I recall Bucky Dewhurst was a classmate at MS Elem......I live in Sun City, Georgetown, Texas now......Mimi Newton Boney

Guest		18-Jun-2007 16:15
Great to see the map of Miami of 1919 - the year my day was born in Key West. He told me how Grandpa was in on the early days of water ski and boat races on the bay. Only a few of the old pics survived the 26 huricane.

Rose Farrell Taylor		01-Jun-2007 23:41
YOU ARE YOUNGER THAN I!! I GREW UP IN THE HIALEAH OF THE 30'S AND 40'S. There are lots of us scattered all over Fla. We have a group that meets in Ocala a couple of times a year. Ewings, Dewhursts, Dean Hodge (who's Dad ran the Hialeah Drum & Bugle Corp) Tommy Lott (Edison's famous drum major) Bea Wirth and me, Rose Farrell. I used to be a Miami Beach Model (advertizing the wonders of Miami Beach!!) I've written a Hialeah history, if your interested I'll send you a copy

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