| 21 | Author: | United States. Army. Quartermaster Corps. | Add to Favorites | | Title: | United States Army, Quartermaster Corps. invoices
1849 ead | | | Date(s): | 1849 | | | Abstract: | Contains two holograph duplicate invoices for building materials and tools sent for the construction of "the Fort on the River Gila."
The invoices were signed and dated by Bvt. Lt. Col. S. McRee, Quartermaster, U.S. Army, St. Louis, Mo. on May 12 and June 7, 1849.
The invoice dated June 7 consists of one leaf; that of May 12, consists of three pages. The lists include weights and quantities for diverse
items such as quarry picks, wheel segments, paint brushes, cooking stoves, door locks, glue and glue pots, grind stones, linseed oil, plows,
window glass, plugs of feathers, and white lead. Items were sent to an unnamed "Acting Quartermaster," and items not received
were so noted. | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | Subjects: | Fortification -- Southwest, New -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. | Frontier and pioneer life -- Southwest, New -- Sources | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
23 | Author: | Foster, Nancy Melvina, 1869-1961. | Add to Favorites | | Title: | Nancy Melvina Foster reminiscences
1871-1921 ead | | | Date(s): | 1871-1921 | | | Abstract: | One holographic manuscript, probably written in 1937. In it, Nancy Melvina Foster recounts her experiences, from 1871-1921, of homesteading in
Arizona, farming in California, and life in the mining camps of Arizona and New Mexico. Genealogy sheet enclosed. | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | Subjects: | Farm life -- California -- History -- Sources. | Frontier and pioneer life -- Southwest, New. | Women pioneers -- Southwest, New -- Biography. | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
24 | Author: | unknown | Add to Favorites | | Title: | Edward H. and Rosamond B. Spicer papers, 1911-2000
(bulk 1937-1988) ead | | | Date(s): | 1911-2000
(bulk 1937-1988) | | | Abstract: | Collection consists of correspondence, research, ephemera,
photographs, articles, and other publications written or collected by Edward H. Spicer. | | | Repository: | Arizona State Museum | | | Subjects: | Japanese Americans Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 | Yaqui Indians -- Rites and ceremonies | Yaqui Indians -- Government relations | Yaqui Indians -- History | Tohono O'Odham Indians | Mayo Indians | Pima Indians | Opata Indians | Yuma Indians | Apache Indians | Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation -- Southwest, New | Indians of North America -- Southwest, New | Minorities -- Southwest, New | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
25 | Author: | Nichols, Tad, 1911- | Add to Favorites | | Title: | Tad Nichols collection (PARTIALLY PROCESSED) ead | | | Date(s): | unknown | | | Abstract: | The Tad Nichols collection consists of diaries,
correspondence, publications, business records, photographs, oral histories (with
transcripts), and moving images. Collection also contains materials used in compiling
his book, "Glen Canyon: Images of a Lost World: Photographs and
Recollections." | | | Repository: | Cline Library. Special Collections and Archives | | | Subjects: | Navajo Indians. | Apache Indians. | Photographers--Southwest, New. | Nature photography--Southwest, New. | Outdoor photography--Southwest, New. | Rafting (Sports)--Glen Canyon (Utah and
Ariz.) | Rafting (Sports)--Arizona--Grand Canyon. | Rafting (Sports)--Colorado River
(Colo.-Mexico) | Rafting (Sports)--San Juan River (Colo.-Utah) | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
26 | Author: | Reilly, P. T.
(Plez Talmadge), 1911-1996 | Add to Favorites | | Title: | Plez Talmadge Reilly collection 1810-1996,
1930s-1970s ead | | | Date(s): | 1810-1996, | | | Abstract: | The Plez Talmage Reilly collection encompasses personal
papers related to P.T. Reilly's interests in the history of the Grand Canyon, the
Colorado Plateau, and Lees Ferry. The majority of this collection dates from the 1930s
to the 1970s — when Reilly was most active in river running, exploration, and publishing
on these subjects — and includes documentation in a variety of mediums, including
manuscripts, photographs, artifacts, oral history interviews, and films related to human
exploration and settlement of the southern Utah and northern Arizona region. | | | Repository: | Cline Library. Special Collections and
Archives | | | Subjects: | Names, Geographical--Arizona--Grand
Canyon | Boats and boating--Southwest, New | Ocean travel | Environmentalists--United States | Rivers--Southwest,
New--Photographs--Indexes | World War, 1939-1945--Cryptography | Soldiers--Correspondence | Conservation of natural resources | Natural history--Colorado River Valley
(Colo.-Mexico) | Southwest, New--Aerial exploration | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
27 | Author: | Tenbrinck, Eduard J. A. (Eduard Johan Alicohen), 1907-1999 | Add to Favorites | | Title: | Eduard Jan A. Tenbrinck Collection
1903-1966 ead | | | Date(s): | 1903-1966 | | | Abstract: | The Eduard Jan A. Tenbrinck Collection contains correspondence, minutes, legal briefs, securities certificates, by-laws, reports, maps, and news clippings dating from 1903 to 1966. They document the operations and successive corporate consolidations of copper mining enterprises in Nevada and in the neighboring districts of surrounding states. | | | Repository: | Arizona State University Library. Greater Arizona Collection | | | Subjects: | Copper industry and trade -- Nevada. | Copper industry and trade -- Southwest, New. | Copper mines and mining -- Nevada. | Copper mines and mining -- Southwest, New. | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
29 | Author: | Romero, José, active 1822-1826. | Add to Favorites | | Title: | Letter of Jose Romero,
1824 ead | | | Date(s): | 1824 | | | Abstract: | Jose Romero was a Lieutenant Colonel, Sonora, Mexico; leader of 1823-1826 expeditions to
establish an inland route between Sonora, Mex. and California. Collection contains a letter
(photocopy) to Mariana de Urrea, Commandante General de Sonora, from Romero in San Gabriel, Calif.,
recounting his experiences in attempting unsuccessfully to return to Sonora in the winter of 1823-1824
through the Palm Springs area, and describing the mail route between Tucson and San Gabriel which was
conducted by Jose Cocomaricopa, the bearer of this letter, via the Colorado River route. | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | Subjects: | Postal service -- Southwest, New -- History -- Sources. | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
31 | Author: | unknown | Add to Favorites | | Title: | Sayles Papers,1913-1977 ead | | | Date(s): | 1913-1977 | | | Abstract: | Collection consists of surveys, reports and notes relating to several
archaeological sites surveyed or excavated by E.B. Sayles, particularly work on the Cochise Culture,
as well as some personal materials mainly relating to his freelance photography. | | | Repository: | Arizona State Museum | | | Subjects: | Antiquities, Prehistoric-- Southwest, New | Animals, Fossil--Southwest, New | Archaeological surveying--Arizona--Tucson Region | Excavations (Archaeology)--Arizona | Excavations (Archaeology)--New Mexico | Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico, North | Cochise culture--Arizona | Hohokam culture--Arizona | Pottery, Prehistoric-- Arizona | Stone implements--Arizona | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
37 | Author: | Whiting, Alfred F. | Add to Favorites | | Title: | A.F. Whiting Collection, 1930-1979. ead | | | Date(s): | 1930-1979. | | | Abstract: | The Whiting Collection consists of over 55,000 pages of field
notes and papers, preserved in 217 binders, along with some recordings. These binders
are organized into the following categories: Anthropology, Botany, Santa Curz,
Dartmouth, Hopi, Navajo and Apache, Southwest, Taos and New Mexico, Havasupai, and
Whiting-Personal. The bulk of the collection was amassed by the late A.F. Whiting over
his forty-five year career in anthropology, ethnobiology, and linguistics. | | | Repository: | Cline Library. Special Collections and Archives
Department. | | | Subjects: | Hopi Indians--Ethnobotany | Anthropology--Southwest, New | Anthropology--Arizona--Santa Cruz County | Ethnobotany--Southwest, New | Havasuapai Indians--Social life and customs | Hopi Indians--Social life and customs | Navajo Indians--Social life and customs | Apache Indians--Social life and customs | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
39 | Author: | Hunter, William W., active 1844-1852. | Add to Favorites | | Title: | Diary-Journal of Events, etc. on a Journey from Missouri to California
1849 ead | | | Date(s): | 1849 | | | Abstract: | Daily journal describing conditions and events of journey from Missouri, through New Mexico and southern Arizona,
to California, April 23, 1849 to December 6, 1849. Contains references to San Xavier del Bac, Tucson, Ariz., and Apaches.
Includes tables of distances from various points, and a map on 4 separate sheets. Accompanied by a typed transcript. | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | Subjects: | Overland journeys to the Pacific. | Pioneers -- Southwest, New -- Diaries. | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
40 | Author: | unknown | Add to Favorites | | Title: | Arizona, Southwestern, and
Borderlands photograph collection, 1873-2018
1920-1970 ead | | | Date(s): | 1873-2018 | | | Abstract: | The Arizona, Southwestern and Borderland photograph collection
is an artificially created collection that consists of many folders containing
photographs, from various sources, of Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico arranged by topics
including places, people, events and activities, and dating from about 1875 to the
present, but mostly after 1920. Formats include postcards, stereographs,
cartes-de-visite, cabinet cards, cyanotypes, view books, photograph albums, panoramas,
photoprints, and others. | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | Subjects: | Cemeteries -- Southwest, New -- Photographs | Ghost towns -- Southwest, New -- Photographs | Indians of North America -- Southwest, New --
Photographs | Photographers -- Arizona | Desert plants -- Arizona -- Photographs | Parades -- Arizona -- Nogales -- Photographs | Aerial photography -- Arizona | Photography -- Tucson (Ariz.) | Art and Photography | Indians of North America | Indians of North America -- Arizona | Cities and towns -- Mexican-American Border Region --
Photographs | Rural schools -- Arizona -- Pictorial works | Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Sonora (State) --
Photographs | Mines and mineral resources -- Arizona -- Pictorial
works | Ranches -- Arizona -- Pictorial works | Automobiles -- Arizona -- Pictorial works | Urban renewal -- Arizona -- Tucson -- Pictorial
works | Indians of North America -- Arizona -- Pictorial
works | Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Pictorial
works | Indians of North America -- New Mexico -- Pictorial
works | Navajo Indians -- Pictorial works | Hopi Indians -- Pictorial works | Apache Indians -- Pictorial works | Cities and towns -- Arizona -- Pictorial works | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
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