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1Author:  Reavis, James Addison, 1843-1914.Add to Favorites
 Title:  Account of Early Incidents Connected with the Peralta Grant, 1894 ead 
 Date(s):  1894 
 Abstract:  James Addison Reavis, 1843-1914, was a swindler and forger, famous for attempting to fraudulently obtain 7,500 sq. miles of Arizona Territory by falsifying documents in Mexico and Spain to show a Spanish land grant to Don Miguel Peralta in 1748. Photocopy of typescript relates his version of events surrounding the Peralta land grant claim. This text was reproduced in The Peralta Grant; James Addison Reavis and the barony of Arizona, University of Oklahoma Press, 1960. 
 Repository:  University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections 
 Subjects:  Land grants -- Arizona. | Peralta Grant. 
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2Author:  Arizona Canal Company.Add to Favorites
 Title:  Tool Book, Arizona Canal Company, 1894-1895 ead 
 Date(s):  1894-1895 
 Abstract:  Tool Book was a tool rental company; leasing tools for canal construction in the Phoenix, Ariz. area. This collection consists of a holograph record book; lists tools received and delivered, by whom and where used. 
 Repository:  University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections 
 Subjects:  Irrigation -- Arizona. | Tools -- Arizona. 
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3Author:  McGee, W. J. 1853-1912 Dinwiddie, WilliamAdd to Favorites
 Title:  W.J. McGee Photograph Collection 1894-1895 ead 
 Date(s):  1894-1895 
 Abstract:  Photographs, 1894-1895, originals and copy prints, mostly taken by William Dinwiddie (1894-1895), with some taken by J. W. Mitchell (1895) of two expeditions, led by W. J. McGee, to study the Tohono O’odham Indians of southern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico, and the Seri Indians of Mexico. The images document homes, people, and household and work activities including pottery and basket making. 
 Repository:  University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections 
 Subjects:  Tohono O’odham Indians – Photographs – 19th century | Seri Indians – Photographs – 19th century | Tohono O’odham women – Photographs – 19th century | Tohono O’odham Indians – Social life and customs – Photographs – 19th century | Tohono O’odham Indians – Games - Photographs 
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4Author:  Alianza Hispano-AmericanaAdd to Favorites
 Title:  Alianza Hispano-Americana records, 1894-1965 1920-1950 ead 
 Date(s):  1894-1965 
 Abstract:  Papers relating to the Alianza Hispano-Americana, which offered low-cost life insurance, social activities, and other services to primarily Mexican/Mexican-Americans living in the United States and Mexico. Founded in Tucson in 1894, Alianza was one of the first organizations to offer life insurance and burial policies to Mexican-American citizens. This collections includes photographs, financial files, correspondence between lodge secretaries, convention files, published materials, scrapbooks, and ledges pertaining to the daily operations of Alizana. Many of the ledgers include membership enrollment information, including members, their addresses, and lodge information. 
 Repository:  University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections 
 Subjects:  Alianza Hispano-Americana | Sociedades mutualistas | Mexican Americans -- Arizona 
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5Author:  Williams, AlAdd to Favorites
 Title:  Al Williams Lantern Slide collection, circa 1894-1920 ead 
 Date(s):  circa 1894-1920 
 Abstract:  Small collection of lantern slides of early oil drilling activity in the Four Corners area, mostly taken in the San Juan River basin area of Utah east of Mexican Hat. 
 Repository:  University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections 
 Subjects:  Formations (Geology) -- Utah | National parks and reserves -- Utah | Geology -- Four Corners Region | Oil well drilling -- History -- Pictorial works 
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