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| | 4 | Author: | Shantz, H.L. (Homer LeRoy), 1876-1958 | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Homer Leroy Shantz
papers,
1903-1958 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1903-1958 | | | | Abstract: | Field notebooks, reprint articles, speeches,
survey abstracts, photographs, diaries, and correspondence pertaining to
Shantz's interests in worldwide agriculture and botany. Shantz's various trips
to Africa resulted in extensive field notes, including those for the
Smithsonian African Expedition, 1919 to 1920, and the African Education
Commission, 1923 to 1924. Background material he collected about Africa
encompasses maps; postcards; dictionaries and primers on languages, including
Swahili; also, articles on the people, the areas they inhabited, and specific
problems, such as the tsetse fly, sleeping sickness, forced labor, and race
relations. Photographs of his travels from the Cape to Cairo depict the Nile,
Egyptian ruins, wild and domestic animals, vegetation and the landscape,
villages and cities, and people in tribal dress. Communal activities documented
include cultivation, thatching roofs, building a road, and weaving a large
bamboo mat to cover a bridge walkway. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Plant ecology -- Africa | Plant ecology -- United States | Vegetation surveys -- South America | Vegetation surveys -- Colorado | Vegetation surveys -- Africa | Swahili language -- Dictionaries -- English | English language -- Dictionaries -- Swahili | Agriculture -- Africa | Soils -- Africa | Agriculture -- United States | Soils -- United States | Africa -- Description and travel | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 5 | Author: | Lister, Thomas A. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Thomas A. Lister papers
1903-1937
(bulk 1929-1933) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1903-1937 | | | | Abstract: | Thomas A. Lister was an Entrepreneur associated with Metal Mining Properties, Lordsburg, New Mexico. Collection includes handwritten
and typescript documents pertaining mainly to Lister's mining enterprises in Grant County and Hidalgo County, New Mexico. Included
are location notices, assay reports, hand-drawn maps, blueprints, notebooks, telegrams, and other documents concerning the promotion,
sale, and lease of specific mines. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Copper mines and mining -- New Mexico -- History -- Sources. | Gold mines and mining -- New Mexico -- History -- Sources. | Mines and mineral resources -- New Mexico -- Grant County -- History -- Sources. | Mines and mineral resources -- New Mexico -- Hidalgo County -- History -- Sources. | Silver mines and mining -- New Mexico -- History -- Sources. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 6 | Author: | Moon, Carl,
1878-1948 | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Carl Moon
Photograph Collection,
circa.
1903-1914 ead | | | | Date(s): | circa.
1903-1914 | | | | Abstract: | The Carl Moon collection is comprised of photographs, ca.
1903-1914, consisting of black and white copy prints of Apache, Hopi, Navajo,
and other American Indians. The collection is artificially arranged into seven
series: Portraits, Cafts, Music, Men, Habitat, Ceremonies and Family. Printed
on fiber paper 5 by 8 inches or smaller, these photographs are annotated with
names and places, and some are dated. The bulk of the images consist of
portraits of individuals, groups, and ceremonies. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Indians of North America -- Southwest, New --
Portraits | Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Rites and
ceremonies | Hopi Indians -- Pictorial works | Navajo Indians -- Pictorial works | Apache Indians -- Pictorial works | Osage Indians -- Pictorial works | Taos Indians -- Pictorial works | Pueblo Indians -- Pictorial works | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 7 | Author: | Castro, Raul H. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Raul H. Castro papers,
1903-2008
(bulk 1939-2003) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1903-2008 | | | | Abstract: | This collection includes material
documenting the life and career of educator, attorney, judge, diplomat, and political figure
Raul H. Castro. Items include correspondence, law practice files, photographs (color, black
& white), negatives (color, black & white), slides (color), news clippings,
audiovisual material (including cassette audiotapes, reel-to-reel audiotapes, audio CDs,
videocassette tapes, DVDs, and LPs), scrapbooks, and objects (including drawings, paintings,
and plaques). | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Governors -- Arizona -- Archives | Hispanic American lawyers -- Arizona -- Archives | Hispanic Americans -- Arizona -- Archives | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 8 | Author: | Barker, George C. (George Carpenter), 1912-1958 | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Papers of George C. Barker,
1903-1958
(bulk 1943-1957) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1903-1958 | | | | Abstract: | Correspondence, research materials,
published and unpublished manuscripts and articles, slides, photographs, and one audio tape,
primarily from 1943 to 1957, of anthropologist George C. Barker. The collection documents
Barker's anthropological research into folk drama and ritual, the social functions of
language, the Pachuco language of Hispanic youths, and Yaqui Indian culture and customs. A
1964 gift to the Southwest Folklore Archives from George C. Barker, Sr. Deaccessioned from
the collection in 1993 were approximately 0.2 feet of duplicates and items of a personal
nature. In 1996 two 11 x 14 black-and-white photographs by Alfred A. Cohn were transferred
to the L. Marguerite Collier Collection, Southwest Folklore Center Manuscripts Collection MS
611. This collection is part of the Southwest Folklore Center collection. The Southwest
Folklore Center was founded in 1979 after the dissolution of the University of Arizona
Folklore Committee and collected information about folk communities, arts, music, and other
humanities-related materials. This collection was previously SWF 004. The materials were
transferred to Special Collections in 2017. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Folk drama, Spanish American | Christmas plays | Prodigal son (Parable) -- Drama | Spanish language -- Dialects -- Arizona -- Tucson | Spanish language -- Social aspects -- Arizona -- Tucson | Spanish language -- Slang | Bilingualism -- Arizona -- Tucson | Mexican Americans -- Arizona -- Tucson -- Languages | Gangs -- Arizona -- Tucson | Yaqui Indians -- Mexico -- Hermosillo -- Rites and Ceremonies --
Photographs | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
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