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Steven Dohanos, Barefoot Mailman Mural, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1940

Barefoot Mailman Summary
The barefoot mailmen of Florida worked as carriers on the first U.S. mail route from Palm Beach to Miami. It took them three…

Tags: Florida, Hillsboro Inlet, James Edward Hamilton, Postal Service

Tom Shaefer, Miami Freedom Tower, National Parks Service, 2010

The Freedom Towers were designed by Schultze and Weaver. It hosted The Miami News newspaper headquarters and printing facility from 1925 to 1957. The…

Tags: Florida, Freedom Tower, Miami, Public Architecture

US Congress, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, First Cuban-American to serve in US Congress (House of Reps.), US Congress, 2017

From Biography: Born in Cuba in 1952 and later immigrating to the United States at age eight, Ros-Lehtinen grew up with an anti-Castro activist father…

Tags: Cuba, Florida, Hispanic-American, House of Representatives, LGBT, Women