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The Inter-American Center Authority (Interama) was created in 1951 (Ch. 26614, Laws) as a corporate agency of the State of Florida to plan, finance, construct, operate, and maintain an Inter-American Cultural and Trade Center in Miami, Dade County, Florida. The proposed center was to be opened in 1976 as a permanent international exposition providing cultural, educational, and trade activities combining the features of an amusement park, world's fair, and trade fair. In 1975, the Authority was abolished long before the Interama project was completed (Ch. 75-131, Laws).
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The series contains administrative files of the Inter-American Center Authority (Interama) from 1955 to 1974, belonging to Chairman Elton J. Gissendanner. The records include the chairman's files, tapes of meetings, bid hearings, general files, correspondence, financial records, litigation files, closed litigation files, engineering, construction, and architectural files, expenditures, and meeting minutes. The records are sometimes referred to as Interama files or Interama records and covers every aspect of the design, development, construction, and decline of the Inter-American Center Authority and the Interama Project.
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Pan-Americanism. Foreign trade promotion Florida Exhibitions Florida
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