The Research Library

Research library

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Curator’s shelf

Start with these sources

Six strong entry points into the archive: an eyewitness manuscript, contemporary newspaper coverage, a 1926 photographic pamphlet, technical reconstruction, and historical film. The complete catalog remains searchable below.

First page of Kaye's 1926 hurricane letter

Kaye’s eyewitness letter

Read the full 24-page manuscript alongside the cleaned transcription.

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Miami Daily News Extra

Contemporary front-page coverage from September 18, 1926.

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Florida Tornado

The contemporary pamphlet and its sixteen storm photographs.

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Modeled wind field for the 1926 Miami landfall

McNoldy wind reconstruction

Creator-authorized modeled wind-field analysis with methodology and attribution.

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1926 newsreel footage

Period motion-picture coverage and later historical interpretations.

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Aerial photograph of Miami before the 1926 hurricane

Miami before and after

Compare the boom-era city with the destruction documented after landfall.

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