| | 41 | Author: | Russell, Robert Parke. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Russell's La Paz County: a Historical Anthology in Four Volumes
1986 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1986 | | | | Abstract: | La Paz County was created in 1983 from Yuma County, Ariz. This collection contains a typescript compilation, 4 vols.,
of newspaper and magazine articles concerning La Paz County, Ariz.; chiefly published in the Arizona Sentinel from 1850-1911.
Vol. 4 contains name and subject indexes. Topics include mines and mining, army, postal service, Native Americans, transportation,
and freighting. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Indians of North America -- Arizona -- La Paz County -- History. | Mines and mineral resources -- Arizona -- La Paz County -- History. | Postal service -- Arizona -- History. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 43 | Author: | Twin Buttes Mining and Smelting Company
(Ariz.) | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Twin Buttes Mining
and Smelting Company records,
1903-1969 (bulk
1903-1927) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1903-1969 (bulk
1903-1927) | | | | Abstract: | The collection includes correspondence, minutes
of meetings, tax forms, ledgers, day books, bills, financial records, labor
reports, time cards, payroll records, and maps from the daily operations of the
mines, railroad and store. Also present are news clippings about Twin Buttes,
Arizona and photographs of the 1926, 1928, and 1938 school classes. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special
Collections | | | | Subjects: | Copper mines and mining -- Arizona -- History --
Sources | Mineral industries -- Arizona -- Finance --
Sources | Railroad companies -- Arizona -- History --
Sources | Copper miners -- History -- Sources | Mines and mineral resources -- Arizona -- Pima County --
History -- Sources | Mining corporations -- Arizona -- Records and
correspondence | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 45 | Author: | Comstock, Theo. B. (Theodore Bryant), 1849-1915. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Theodore Bryant Comstock Letter Books
1898-1902 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1898-1902 | | | | Abstract: | Theodore B. Comstock, 1849-1915, was a professional geologist, mining engineer and consultant. He was an assistant state geologist
of Texas, Head of The University of Arizona School of Mines, and first president of The University of Arizona, 1894-1895. Holograph
letters to R. J. Ferguson and F. T. Blandy, local superintendents, mostly about operations of the Elkhart Mine, Chloride, Mohave County,
Arizona, to the British Syndicate owners of the mine. Includes letters of chief clerk M. P. Dodge. Also includes letters about Prescott
Development Syndicate, the Security Mining and Development Syndicate, the Mineral Hill Copper Syndicate (mainly pp. 401-451) and other
mine enterprises mostly in Arizona. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Copper mines and mining -- Arizona -- History -- Sources. | Gold mines and mining -- Arizona -- History -- Sources. | Mines and mineral resources -- Arizona -- Mohave County -- History. | Silver mines and mining -- Arizona -- History -- Sources. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 49 | Author: | Douglas, Frances | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Frances Douglas
Papers,
1892-1963 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1892-1963 | | | | Abstract: | Contains correspondence, diaries, articles,
stories, clippings, memorabilia, photographs, and translations of mostly
unpublished works by Spanish-language writers. Some of the authors are Concha
Espina de Serna, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Jose Maria Carretero,
Guillermo Diaz-Caneja, Gregorio Martinez Sierra, Rafael Delgado, Pedro Juan
Labarthe, Jose Lopez- Portillo y Rojas, Emilia Pardo-Bazan, Jose Echegaray and
Eduardo Zamacois. Personal material consists of correspondence and family
photographs, from marriage to Charles Fletcher Lummis, and later to Courtenay
DeKalb, with whom she operated the Roadside Mine in Arizona. Photographs and
correspondence related to the mine are present. Also included are typescripts
of Douglas' published and unpublished articles, stories, and translations.
Original drawings are by E.A. Burbank and Carl Oscar Borg. Correspondence with
friends and publishers includes writers Eugene Rhodes, Henry Knibbs, Concha
Espina, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, José María
Carretero, Pedro Labarthe, Guillermo Diaz-Caneja, and the publisher Phoebe
Hearst. Diaries and photographs document travels to Mexico and Europe. Stories
were recorded by Douglas while she lived among the Isleta Indians. Mexican and
U.S. newspapers, 1911-1915, report on the Mexican Revolution. Related material
in MS 39 and MS 297. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | American Association of University Women. | Spanish Literature -- 20th century -- History and
criticism. | Isleta Indians -- Legends. | Indians of North America -- New Mexico -- Legends. | Mines and mineral resources -- Arizona -- Pima County --
History -- Sources. | Roadside Mine (Ariz.) | Women authors. | Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920. | 1900-1924. | 1925-1949. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 51 | Author: | Riggs, John Casey, 1874-1943. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Riggs Family Papers
1878-1998
(1900-1942) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1878-1998 | | | | Abstract: | This collection contains materials documenting the Riggs pioneer family history from the time Brannick Riggs married Mary Elizabeth Robbins in Texas in 1856, their first wagon train move to Colorado in 1871, and several years later relocating again to southeastern Arizona, arriving and settling in Sulphur Springs Valley in 1879. Their eighth child, John Casey Riggs (1874-1943), was the family’s historian and creator of the bulk of the papers. The collection includes Our El Dorado, a biographical book written by John C. Riggs and his daughter, Jeanette Riggs Roll. Also included in the collection are biographical manuscripts; diaries and journals; business and personal correspondence; business records and ledgers; printed materials, including pamphlets, catalogs, newspapers and clippings; homestead land and mine patents; political papers of John Casey Riggs; maps; and photographs and negatives. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Apache Indians--Arizona. | Banks and banking--Arizona. | Cattle brands--Arizona. | Cattle trade--Arizona--History. | Comanche Indians--Texas--History--19th century. | Frontier and pioneer life--Arizona--Cochise County. | Grazing--Arizona. | Lawyers--Arizona. | Mines and mineral resources--Arizona--Cochise County. | Politicians--Arizona--Biography. | Ranches--Arizona--Cochise County--History--Records and Correspondence. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 52 | Author: | Tappan, Joseph Bean | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Joseph Bean and Laura Tappan Collection, 1835-1949. ead | | | | Date(s): | 1835-1949. | | | | Abstract: | The Joseph Bean and Laura Tappan collection consists of
correspondence, pictures, and other papers of Joseph Bean Tappan (1858-1933) of
Flagstaff, Ariz., which relate to his activities as a sheep rancher and as mine
developer in La Paz County, Ariz., to his battles over water rights, and to his family
in Gilmanton, N.H. It also includes correspondence, pictures and other papers of
Tappan's wife, Laura Fulton Tappan (1849-1933), which relate to her career as a
kindergarten teacher at Flagstaff, Ariz., and to members of her family, the Fultons and
Howards, in Baltimore, Md., and Zanesville, Ohio. | | | | Repository: | Cline Library. Special Collections and Archives
Department. | | | | Subjects: | Sheep ranchers--Arizona. | Miners--Arizona. | Ranchers' spouses--Arizona. | Kindergarten teachers--Arizona. | Women teachers--Arizona--Flagstaff. | Cotton farmers--Arizona. | Women farmers--Arizona. | Farmers--Arizona. | Oral history. | Genealogy. | Mines and mineral resources--Arizona. | Mines and mineral resources--Arizona--La Paz
County. | Orchards--Arizona. | Farms--Arizona. | Farms--Arizona--Phoenix. | Sheep ranches--Arizona. | Sheep ranches--Arizona--La Paz County. | Cotton growing--Arizona. | Cotton growing--Arizona--Phoenix. | Citrus fruit industry--Arizona. | Citrus fruit industry--Arizona--Phoenix. | Water rights--Arizona. | Pets--Arizona. | Ponies--Arizona. | Agriculture--Arizona. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
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