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We are an NCAA Division II school and a member of the Sunshine State Conference with 12 varsity teams, including men's baseball, basketball, golf, soccer and tennis; and women's basketball, golf, rowing, soccer, softball, tennis and volleyball. So far, we've won 24 NCAA championships, had 338 All-Americans, 413 Scholar All-Americans, and nine NCAA "Women of the Year" finalists, the most of any Division II school. Not bad at all, but we're going for more.

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Looking Back

By Walter Villa From the Archives

The Numbers Are Astounding

In his 66th year of collecting, Barry University adjunct professor Seth Bramson has crammed his Miami Shores house with more than 1.5 million individual historical artifacts. History seemingly fills every crevice of the 2,600-square-foot home he shares with his wife, Myrna.

“I am the senior collector,” said Bramson, who is also the historian-in-residence at Barry. “There is nobody, living or dead, who has ever collected Floridiana and Miami memorabilia anywhere near as long as I have.”

Bramson Archive memorabilia

The Bramson Archive has its roots in Miami Beach. That’s where Bramson’s family moved in August of 1946. By 1947, Bramson and his father started a family tradition. Every Sunday, they would visit the Buena Vista Yard to see the locomotives owned by the Florida East Coast Railway.

That exposure would soon start an all-consuming love affair that has lasted more than three-quarters of a century. “About a month ago,” Bramson said, “I told Myrna that I had to make a confession after 46-plus years of marriage. I told her: ‘I’ve had a mistress all of this time.’

“She smiled and said, ‘I know—it’s called the Florida East Coast Railway.’”

The Bramson Archive officially began in May of 1958. That’s when Bramson walked into the Florida East Coast Railway ticket office at the Ingraham building in downtown Miami and picked up, in essence, a brochure with the train schedule.

Seth Bramson's portrait
Concrete milepost marker

Collecting memorabilia wasn’t a conscious decision by Bramson—at least not in those early days. Instead, the Bramson Archive just sort of happened—and Florida is richer because of his tireless efforts.

Here’s a five-piece sampling of his collection:

  • 1

    The oldest known piece of marked Miami memorabilia is the 1823 handwritten abstract detailing the 94,160 acres of Miami. The document was written by an unknown person more than 70 years before Miami was founded in 1896. It is the first item of any kind with the word “Miami” shown. The abstract is the exact legal description of the land, and the value of this piece is inestimable, Bramson said.

  • 2

    There’s also a framed poster, dated December of 1895, from Henry Flagler, the founder of the Florida East Coast Railway and of the city of Miami. The letter is directed to the president of Lehigh Valley Railway in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. In the document, Flagler states that he is extending the railroad to Biscayne Bay.

  • 3

    There are pieces in the Bramson Archive that reflect the state of race relations in the early days of Florida. That includes a wooden sign from the FEC’s downtown Miami station waiting room that says “COLORED.” There’s also a framed document with the following title: “To Our Colored Friends.” The document is a letter from Atlantic Coast Line Railroad President C. McD. Davis to his Black customers. “Coast Line is glad to serve its colored friends and is pleased that so many of them ride with us. Coast Line hopes you will continue to use its trains …”

  • 4

    Sports are represented in the Bramson Archive, including a program from the Nov. 27, 1952, football game at the Orange Bowl between the Miami High Stingarees and the Miami Edison Red Raiders. The annual rivalry—held on Thanksgiving Day in those early years—started in 1925, often attracting crowds of more than 30,000 fans. But it wasn’t until the 1952 game depicted by the program in the Bramson Archive that Edison beat Miami High for the first time. The final score was 21-7, and Edison fans celebrated with a parade down Flagler Street.

  • 5

    Part of the Bramson Archive doesn’t even make it inside the house. Resting against the outside door of what used to be his garage—but is now museum space—is a concrete mile-post marker. That marker shows that a traveler in the Melbourne area is 172 miles south of Jacksonville and 350 miles north of Key West.

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