| 1 | Author: | Smith, George E. P.,
1873-1975 | Requires cookie* | | Title: | George E.P. Smith
papers,
1895-1972 ead | | | Date(s): | 1895-1972 | | | Abstract: | This collection is organized into two subgroups and seven series,
which include, Biographical Information, 1895-1955. Diaries, 1908- 1909,
1949-1954. Correspondence, 1900-1963. Articles and Addresses, 1908- 1972.
Project Files, 1899-1944. Supplemental Papers, 1904-1941. Photographs,
1906-1953. arrangement varies by series. Contains mainly correspondence,
1915-1958, regarding his professional interest in the development and
utilization of underground and surface water in Arizona. Correspondents include
Carl Hayden, Barry Goldwater, John R. Murdock, and other state and local
leaders. Also includes his articles and addresses, project files, and
photographs concerning irrigation engineering, agriculture, and water supply
projects. | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | Subjects: | Water -- Law and legislation -- Arizona | Groundwater -- Arizona | Tamarix -- Utilization -- Arizona | Cement -- Arizona | Irrigation -- Arizona | | | Matches: 12 hit(s)
| ...Tucson (Ariz. ). 1906-1937... ...Citizens Water Committee (Tucson, Ariz. ). 1951-1953... ...Tucson Area Flood Control Committee. 1944...
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2 | Author: | Porter, Burr Wilson, 1878-1943. | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Burr Wilson Porter papers
1895-1950
(bulk 1925-1940) ead | | | Date(s): | 1895-1950 | | | Abstract: | Burr Wilson Porter, 1878-1943, was a pioneer businessman, sheep rancher, and trading post operator; Apache County, Arizona.
This collection includes financial ledgers and legal records relating to operation of a general merchandise store and trading
station at Navajo, Ariz. as well as activities in real estate and the sheep industry. | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | Subjects: | Merchants -- Arizona -- History -- Sources. | Real property -- Arizona -- Apache County. | Retail trade -- Arizona -- History -- Sources. | Sheep industry -- Arizona. | Trading posts. | | | Matches: 1 hit(s)
| ...of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-...
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3 | Author: | Capin Mercantile Co.
Capin, Hyman
Capin family | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Capin family business records,
1895-1995 ead | | | Date(s): | 1895-1995 | | | Abstract: | Records of the Capin family business enterprises consisting of business records, ephemera, photographs, paste-ups and
advertising, and newspaper articles relating to the Capin family, the Capin Mercantile Corporation, and its predecessors. | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | Subjects: | Jews -- Arizona -- History | Commerce -- Arizona -- History | Retail trade -- Arizona -- History | Jewish businesspeople -- Arizona -- Archives | Commerce -- Texas -- History | Retail trade -- Texas -- History | Jewish businesspeople -- Texas -- History | | | Matches: 3 hit(s)
| ...of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-... ...numbering seven, moved to Tucson, Arizona. Here Hyman worked... ...and died four years later in Tucson. His family continued to...
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6 | Author: | Hughes, Louis C., 1844-1915. | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Address Before the Farmers, Fruit and Stock Growers of Arizona,
October 18, 1895 ead | | | Date(s): | October 18, 1895 | | | Abstract: | Louis C. Hughes, 1844-1915 was an Arizona pioneer, lawyer, newspaper publisher, and politician.
This collection includes a typescript of an address by Hughes, before the meeting of the Farmers,
Fruit and Stock Growers of Arizona, Oct. 18, 1895, on the occasion of its organization. | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | Subjects: | Agriculture -- Arizona -- History. | | | Matches: 1 hit(s)
| ...of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-...
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7 | Author: | Stevens, Walter B. (Walter Barlow), 1848-1939. | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Scrapbooks of the Peralta Land Grant Case,
1895-1899 ead | | | Date(s): | 1895-1899 | | | Abstract: | Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, 1895-1899, concerning the Peralta Land Grant case.
Most are written by Walter B. Stevens, 1848-1939. Stevens was a journalist and a St.
Louis Globe-Democrat that covered the Peralta Land Grant case. Some clippings are present
concerning other land grants. Also included are 88 pages of typescripts of news articles;
some are the articles in the scrapbook. | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | Subjects: | Land grants -- Arizona. | Peralta Grant. | | | Matches: 1 hit(s)
| ...of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-...
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8 | Author: | Reavis, James Addison, 1843-1914. | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Defendant's Photographic Exhibits 1 to 44 Inclusive,
1895 ead | | | Date(s): | 1895 | | | 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. This collection includes
photoprints of selected defendant's documents, supposedly from various archvies in Guadalajara, Mexico,
purporting to prove the existence of the Peralta land grant claim. Includes an item by item
critical explanation relating to forged features of the documents. Documents are in Spanish; with English explanation. | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | Subjects: | Land grants -- Arizona. | Peralta Grant. | | | Matches: 1 hit(s)
| ...of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-...
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