Collins hired predominantly black[2] work crews from "Colored Town", now known as Overtown, in his orchards and for clearing the mangrove forests on the barrier islands that would become Miami Beach.
[5] He featured Rosie as a sort of mascot for the area in publicity photos that promoted Miami Beach as a luxury vacation destination.
In 1921 Rosie starred in publicity photos as a "golf caddy"[6] for vacationing president Warren G. Harding, which established Miami Beach as an exotic destination.
"We'll get the prettiest girls and put them in the goddamndest tightest and shortest bathing suits, and no stockings or swim shoes either.
[8] She was well-known and widely loved, and apparently survived as late as at least 1938, where she appeared at a party in support of the Miami Beach Committee of One Hundred on Boca Chita Key.