| | 1 | Author: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A. F. Banta Papers, SHM MS-9
1890-1924, 1969 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1890-1924, 1969 | | | | Abstract: | Albert Franklin Banta was an Arizona pioneer who served as an Indian Scout, mail carrier, postmaster,
miner and newspaperman. He served on the Territorial Legislature under the name “Charles Franklin” and played a critical role in
the creation of Apache County. He founded the Arizona Miner newspaper in Prescott and established the St. John’s Observer in St.
John’s Arizona. The collection contains records for his various roles as well as financial and personal papers. There is a rich
collection of correspondence regarding many historical facts in Arizona’s history. | | | | Repository: | Sharlot Hall Museum Library & Archives | | | | Subjects: | Newspapers | Indian Scout | Arizona Territorial Legislature | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 5 | Author: | Bohrer, Vorsila Laurene | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Vorsila L. Bohrer papers 1930's-2014 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1930's-2014 | | | | Abstract: | Consists of the Vorsila L. Bohrer Papers including professional
files documenting her career as a noted ethnobotanist specializing in the cultures of the
American Southwest. Among these are research papers and field notes from the many
archaeological sites she studied including Salmon Ruins, Snaketown, and Point of Pines.
Diaries, correspondence, and photographs provide biographical materials from her childhood
through late career. Of special note are the letters to and from colleagues who shaped the
ethnobotany field from the 1950s to the 1990s. | | | | Repository: | Arizona State Museum | | | | Subjects: | Agriculture, Prehistoric. | Archaeologists—United States—Biography. | Archaeologists—United States—Correspondence. | Archaeology--Southwest, New--History. | Cotton—Southwest, New. | Corn as food—Southwest, New. | Ethnobotany--Southwest, New. | Ethnobotany—New Mexico—Salmon Ruins. | Girl Scout Archaeological Expeditions | Paleoethnobotany. | Palynology—Southwest, New. | Plant remains (Archaeology). | Pueblo Indians—Food. | Pueblo Indians—Agriculture. | Ramblers’ Club, University of Arizona. | Women archaeologists—papers. | Zuni agriculture. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 6 | Author: | Overson, Margaret Jarvis, 1878-1968. | Requires cookie* | | | 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 |
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