Biscayne National Park

A mustard hill coral from the Biscayne National Park museum collection

NPS Photo

Shipwrecks, coral reefs, and lighthouses are just part of the history of Biscayne National Park. Get started on your school or research project here. This page introduces online sources for the natural and cultural histories of Biscayne National Park.

Historical and scientific information can be found in many places online. Some of the links below are to other National Park Service (NPS) web sites. More link to other libraries and archives.

National Park Service information sites:

• Photographs from the Biscayne National Park archive are available through the Open Parks Network, a cooperative effort between the National Park Service and Clemson University. Not all photographs from the park collections are available online.
• During the early to mid-1960s, Lloyd E. Miller was one of the primary advocates for the establishment of what would become Biscayne National Park. View a finding aid for the Lloyd E. Miller Papers, which were developed as part of Miller's book Biscayne National Park—It Almost Wasn't. The book chronicles the history of the fight to protect Biscayne Bay and the establishment of the national monument.
• NPS reports, studies, and management plans may be found on the NPS Electronic Technical Information Center web site.
• A wealth of articles, reports, and other data mostly about the science of Biscayne National Park is available through the NPS Data Store. More than 1800 entries date back to 1876.
• Harpers Ferry Center, part of the National Park Service, houses the NPS history collection, commisioned art collection, AV and film collection, and other material, parts of which are available online in the NPGallery through the Harpers Ferry web page. We recommend starting your search with the word biscayne and choosing list view when the results appear.

Information about Biscayne National Park held by other institutions:

• The collections of the Library of Congress document the history of the creation of Biscayne National Monument in 1968 and the later expansion of the monument into Biscayne National Park. For legislation relating to Biscayne National Park, search the web site of the U.S. Congress.
• The Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives houses over 35,000 hours of video tape and 23 million feet of film documenting Florida history, including Miami TV station news stories about Biscayne National Monument and Park.
• Looking for natural specimens? The web site for Integrated Digitized Biocollections contains many specimens from Biscayne National Park curated by institutions across the U.S., including our principal partner, the Florida Museum of Natural History.

For more information about the museum and archive collections from Biscayne National Park held at the South Florida Collections Management Center--the NPS museum facility in Everglades National Park--visit the Using the Collections page or contact the staff through the Contact Us page.