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| | 2 | Author: | Schwalen, Harold Christy,
1895-1987 | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Harold Christy
Schwalen papers,
1896-1967 (bulk
1919-1965) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1896-1967 (bulk
1919-1965) | | | | Abstract: | Collection includes research notes, maps, blueprints,
correspondence, photographs, and other material gathered for his research
projects. Includes data from the Department's agricultural experiment stations;
surface and groundwater studies; wells and pump irrigation; flow records;
climatological data; and manuscript reports and papers. Also includes over 2000
photographs illustrating well drilling, floods and erosion, pumps and pumping
plants, irrigation projects, and concrete pipe and ditch
construction. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Snow surveys -- Arizona | Groundwater -- Arizona | Water supply -- Arizona | Building, Adobe -- Arizona | Agricultural Engineering -- Arizona | Agriculture -- Arizona | Weather -- Arizona -- Observations | Cotton -- Research -- Arizona | Floodplains -- Arizona -- Cochise County --
Management | Floodplains -- Arizona -- Tucson --
Management | Gila River Watershed (N.M. and Ariz.) | Guayule | Salt River Project | Irrigation -- Arizona | Lettuce -- Arizona | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 9 | Author: | Myrland, Imogene J. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Imogene Myrland papers 1936-1974 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1936-1974 | | | | Abstract: | Correspondence, photographs, clippings, financial records,
scrapbooks, teaching aids, miscellaneous publications, and other material relating to
the organization and development of nursery schools and day care centers in Arizona,
especially Tucson. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Nursery schools -- Arizona -- Tucson | Nursery schools -- Arizona | Preschool teachers -- Arizona | Day care centers -- Arizona | Day care centers -- Arizona -- Tucson | Education, Preschool -- Arizona | Parenting -- Study and teaching -- Arizona --
Tucson | Children -- Arizona | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 13 | 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 |
| 15 | Author: | Smith, George E. P.,
1873-1975 | Add to Favorites | | | 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 | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 17 | Author: | Overson, Margaret Jarvis, 1878-1968. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Overson Family Photograph Collection,
1840-1950s
(bulk 1920s-1940s) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1840-1950s | | | | Abstract: | Photographs and negatives, primarily prints, glass plate, nitrate, and acetate negatives,
but also a few travel stereographs, cabinet cards, cartes-de-visite, and daguerreotypes,
mostly relating to the Overson family of St. Johns, Arizona, along with some of townspeople,
buildings, and special occasions. There are a few portraits of people taken by Charles Jarvis,
circa 1890 to 1910. More were taken by his daughter, Margaret Jarvis Overson, circa 1920 to 1960.
A small amount were taken by other photographers and by her adult children, especially Eva M. Overson Tanner.
The images include mostly unidentified people, family, student class groups, school athletic teams,
and a few celebrations and street scenes. Photographs also include Mormon schools, school groups,
church groups and church leaders. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Automobiles -- Arizona -- Pictorial works. | Boy Scouts -- Arizona -- Pictorial works. | Building sites -– Arizona -- Saint Johns -- Pictorial works. | Camping -- Arizona -- Pictorial works. | Cartes-de-visite. | Children -- Pictorial works. | Daguerreotypes. | Dams -- Arizona -- Design and construction -- Pictorial works. | Domestic life -- Pictorial works. | Infants -- Pictorial works. | Jarvis family. | Meteorites -– Arizona -- Pictorial works. | Mormons -- Arizona -- Saint Johns -- Pictorial works. | Overson family. | Parades –- Arizona -- Saint Johns -- Pictorial works. | Photographers -- Arizona. | Photoprints. | Rural women -- Arizona -- Saint Johns -- Pictorial works. | School children -– Arizona -- Saint Johns -- Pictorial works. | Schools –- Arizona –- Saint Johns -- Pictorial works. | Sports teams -- Pictorial works. | Stereographs. | Tanner family. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 18 | Author: | Jacobs Family | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Jacobs family
papers,
1861-1909 (bulk
1878-1890) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1861-1909 (bulk
1878-1890) | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists of correspondence, letter books,
invoices, financial statements, ledgers, journals, receipts, cancelled checks,
debit and credit memos, certificate of deposit stubs, draft registers,
collection registers, and remittance registers produced by the daily mercantile
and banking business of Lionel and Barron Jacobs. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Merchants -- Arizona -- History -- Sources | Bankers -- Arizona -- History -- Sources | Jews -- Arizona -- History -- Sources | Frontier and pioneer life -- Arizona -- History --
Sources | Banks and banking -- Arizona -- History --
Sources | Retail trade -- Arizona -- History -- Sources | Freight and freightage -- West (U.S.) | Military bases -- Arizona -- History -- Sources | Pioneers -- Arizona | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
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