| | 102 | Author: | Comstock, Theo. B. (Theodore Bryant), 1849-1915. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Theodore Bryant Comstock Letter Books
1898-1902 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1898-1902 | | | | Abstract: | Theodore B. Comstock, 1849-1915, was a professional geologist, mining engineer and consultant. He was an assistant state geologist
of Texas, Head of The University of Arizona School of Mines, and first president of The University of Arizona, 1894-1895. Holograph
letters to R. J. Ferguson and F. T. Blandy, local superintendents, mostly about operations of the Elkhart Mine, Chloride, Mohave County,
Arizona, to the British Syndicate owners of the mine. Includes letters of chief clerk M. P. Dodge. Also includes letters about Prescott
Development Syndicate, the Security Mining and Development Syndicate, the Mineral Hill Copper Syndicate (mainly pp. 401-451) and other
mine enterprises mostly in Arizona. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Copper mines and mining -- Arizona -- History -- Sources. | Gold mines and mining -- Arizona -- History -- Sources. | Mines and mineral resources -- Arizona -- Mohave County -- History. | Silver mines and mining -- Arizona -- History -- Sources. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 103 | Author: | Levy, Mikul G., 1859-1942. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Letter, 1938 Dec. 22, Prescott (Ariz.), to Mrs. John W. Mayes, Phoenix (Ariz.)
1938 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1938 | | | | Abstract: | Typescript (original) letter describing his mining and mercantile activities in Nogales and Ajo (Ariz.), 1883-1931, including his
business dealings with Albert Steinfeld, Randall Ore Reduction Company, Cornelia and Rescue Company, C & A Mining Company, and
Ajo Consolidated Copper Company. Also includes a letter of transmittal to Bernard Fontana, in which Mrs. George Peterson describes
an anecdote about Mr. Sam Clark, the founder of Clarkston, Arizona, and a trip he made from Clarkston to Los Angeles, California. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Frontier and pioneer life -- Arizona -- History -- Sources. | Gold miners -- Arizona -- Biography. | Merchants -- Arizona -- History -- Sources. | Mines and mineral resources -- Arizona -- History. | Pioneers -- Arizona -- Biography. | Tohono O'odham Indians. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 105 | Author: | Twin Buttes Mining and Smelting Company
(Ariz.) | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Twin Buttes Mining
and Smelting Company records,
1903-1969 (bulk
1903-1927) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1903-1969 (bulk
1903-1927) | | | | Abstract: | The collection includes correspondence, minutes
of meetings, tax forms, ledgers, day books, bills, financial records, labor
reports, time cards, payroll records, and maps from the daily operations of the
mines, railroad and store. Also present are news clippings about Twin Buttes,
Arizona and photographs of the 1926, 1928, and 1938 school classes. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special
Collections | | | | Subjects: | Copper mines and mining -- Arizona -- History --
Sources | Mineral industries -- Arizona -- Finance --
Sources | Railroad companies -- Arizona -- History --
Sources | Copper miners -- History -- Sources | Mines and mineral resources -- Arizona -- Pima County --
History -- Sources | Mining corporations -- Arizona -- Records and
correspondence | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 106 | Author: | Cosulich, Bernice, 1896-1956 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Papers of Bernice Cosulich
1923-1956 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1923-1956 | | | | Abstract: | Papers of Bernice Cosulich consists of correspondence, published and unpublished articles, clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, and notes related to Cosulich’s work writing for the Arizona Daily Star newspaper and various magazines, her book Tucson, and future projects including a projected biography of actress Helena Modjeska and a work on Arizona’s ghost towns, dating between 1923 and 1956. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Authors, American--Correspondence | Medicinal plants--Southwestern States | Extinct cities--Arizona | Ghost towns--Arizona | Copper mines and mining--Arizona | Mines and mineral resources--Arizona | Pioneers--Arizona | Women journalists--Arizona | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 108 | Author: | Luhrs family | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Luhrs Family Papers
1804-1997
1880-1978 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1804-1997 | | | | Abstract: | The Luhrs Family Papers house correspondence, legal documents, financial records, real estate records, blueprints, ledgers, and other materials documenting the Luhrs family's emigration from Germany to the United States and life and work in Phoenix, Arizona. Among the subjects represented are real estate holdings; construction and administration of the Commercial Hotel (later known as the Hotel Luhrs), the Luhrs Building, the Luhrs Central Building, the Luhrs Tower, the Luhrs Arcade, and the Luhrs Parking Center; George Luhrs Sr.'s business partnership with Newell Herrick; agricultural and mining enterprises; such fraternal organizations as the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, the El Zaribah Shrine, the Free and Accepted Masons, the Knights Templar, the Royal Arch Masons, and the Rotary Club; George Luhrs Jr.'s and Arthur Luhrs' education in the Phoenix public schools and at Stanford University; George Luhrs Jr.'s and A. C. Taylor's military service, including service in World War I; and family members' private lives. | | | | Repository: | Arizona State University Library
Greater Arizona Collection | | | | Subjects: | Commercial buildings -- Arizona -- Phoenix | Hotels -- Arizona -- Phoenix | Mines and mineral resources -- Arizona | Office buildings -- Arizona -- Phoenix | Real estate development -- Arizona -- Phoenix | Real estate investment -- Arizona -- Phoenix | World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, American | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 110 | Author: | Brooks, William E.;
Gearin, John M.;
Leach, George L.;
Mead, Frank;
Risley, W.S.(William);
Thane, Hazel Cynthia;
Thane, Eliza (Lisle);
Moyer, Chas.;
Ingraham, Fred L.; | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Arizona Territorial Correspondence Collection
1866-1919 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1866-1919 | | | | Abstract: | This collection contains letters, and in some cases, their accompanying envelopes (covers) written either from Arizona or regarding Arizona matters during the State's Territorial period. The letters address issues such as mail service, statehood, Socialism, mining, ranching, military life, and the granting of a trading post concession. They also reflect the way of life in the Arizona Territory as well as highlight the types of people who were settlers of this area. | | | | Repository: | Postal History Foundation, Peggy J. Slusser Memorial Philatelic Library | | | | Subjects: | Trading posts--Arizona. | Military bases--Arizona--History. | Frontier and pioneer life--Arizona. | Politics--Arizona. | Mines and mineral resources--Arizona--History. | Harshaw (Ariz.)--History. | Morenci (Ariz.)--History. | Rucker (Ariz.)--History. | San Carlos (Ariz.)--History. | Solomonville (Ariz.)--History. | Yuma (Ariz.)--History. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 111 | Author: | Henderson, Alexander S.,
1859-1944 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Alexander S. Henderson papers,
1888-1963 (bulk
1900-1954) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1888-1963 (bulk
1900-1954) | | | | Abstract: | Chiefly records of the A.S.Henderson general
merchandise store in Patagonia, Arizona, from 1900 to 1940 including
inventories, correspondence, merchandise ads, ledgers, monthly account books,
and bills. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special
Collections | | | | Subjects: | Frontier and pioneer life -- Arizona -- Santa Cruz
County | Frontier and pioneer life -- Oklahoma | Women pioneers | Chinese -- Arizona -- Patagonia -- History | Chinese Americans -- Photographs | Merchants -- Arizona -- Patagonia -- History | Mines and mineral resources -- Arizona --
History | Mine buildings -- Arizona -- Santa Cruz County --
Photographs | Fortune-telling | Osteopathic medicine -- History | Retail trade -- Arizona -- History | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 112 | Author: | Moore, Genevieve, 1895-1988 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Genevieve Moore Papers
1912-1971
1945-1970 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1912-1971 | | | | Abstract: | The Genevieve Moore Papers consist of correspondence and research files that Moore compiled in her capacity as editor of Pay Dirt magazine and The Mining Journal. These files contain extensive information on federal regulations relating to mining operations including labor, mine safety, monetary policy, environmental protection, use of public lands, taxation, and trade policy. Although the papers extend from 1912 to 1971, the bulk of the collection concerns federal regulations and corporate management of mining operations in the Southwestern United States from 1945 to 1970. | | | | Repository: | Arizona State University Library. Greater Arizona Collection | | | | Subjects: | Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects -- Southwest, New. | Mineral industries -- Government policy -- Southwest, New. | Mineral industries -- Taxation -- Southwest, New. | Miners -- Labor unions -- Southwest, New. | Mine safety -- Southwest, New. | Mines and mineral resources -- Southwest, New. | Mining law -- United States. | Public lands -- Southwest, New. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 115 | Author: | Douglas, Frances | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Frances Douglas
Papers,
1892-1963 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1892-1963 | | | | Abstract: | Contains correspondence, diaries, articles,
stories, clippings, memorabilia, photographs, and translations of mostly
unpublished works by Spanish-language writers. Some of the authors are Concha
Espina de Serna, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Jose Maria Carretero,
Guillermo Diaz-Caneja, Gregorio Martinez Sierra, Rafael Delgado, Pedro Juan
Labarthe, Jose Lopez- Portillo y Rojas, Emilia Pardo-Bazan, Jose Echegaray and
Eduardo Zamacois. Personal material consists of correspondence and family
photographs, from marriage to Charles Fletcher Lummis, and later to Courtenay
DeKalb, with whom she operated the Roadside Mine in Arizona. Photographs and
correspondence related to the mine are present. Also included are typescripts
of Douglas' published and unpublished articles, stories, and translations.
Original drawings are by E.A. Burbank and Carl Oscar Borg. Correspondence with
friends and publishers includes writers Eugene Rhodes, Henry Knibbs, Concha
Espina, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, José María
Carretero, Pedro Labarthe, Guillermo Diaz-Caneja, and the publisher Phoebe
Hearst. Diaries and photographs document travels to Mexico and Europe. Stories
were recorded by Douglas while she lived among the Isleta Indians. Mexican and
U.S. newspapers, 1911-1915, report on the Mexican Revolution. Related material
in MS 39 and MS 297. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | American Association of University Women. | Spanish Literature -- 20th century -- History and
criticism. | Isleta Indians -- Legends. | Indians of North America -- New Mexico -- Legends. | Mines and mineral resources -- Arizona -- Pima County --
History -- Sources. | Roadside Mine (Ariz.) | Women authors. | Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920. | 1900-1924. | 1925-1949. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 116 | Author: | Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Barry M. Goldwater Historic Photograph Collection
1850s-1960s ead | | | | Date(s): | 1850s-1960s | | | | Abstract: | This collection houses photographs showing variety of subjects pertaining to Arizona, including views of desert flora and fauna, landscapes, military, mining, Native Americans, agriculture, buildings, street scenes, transportation, and people and places. | | | | Repository: | Arizona State University Library. Greater Arizona Collection | | | | Subjects: | Agriculture -- Arizona -- Phoenix -- Photographs. | Buildings -- Arizona -- Phoenix -- Photographs. | Cowboys -- Arizona -- Phoenix -- Photographs. | Deserts -- Arizona -- Photographs. | Deserts -- Southwest, New -- Photographs. | Indians of North America -- Arizona -- Photographs. | Mines and mineral resources -- Arizona -- Photographs. | Rodeos -- Arizona -- Phoenix -- Photographs. | Transportation -- Arizona -- Photographs. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 119 | Author: | Riggs, John Casey, 1874-1943. | Requires cookie* | | | 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 |
| 120 | Author: | Arizona State University Libraries. Department of Archives and Special Collections | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Chicano/a Research Collection Small Manuscripts
1891-2010
1970-2010 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1891-2010 | | | | Abstract: | This guide describes all of the small manuscript collections held in ASC's Chicano/a Research Collection. These collections generally consist of 1-2 folders and document Mexican American history in Arizona from the late 19th century to the early 21st century. Manuscripts, personal papers, professional papers, and family history projects are included. All of these descriptions were originally entered into ASC's Special Materials Index between 1996 and 2014. | | | | Repository: | Arizona State University Library. Chicano Research Collection | | | | Subjects: | Mexican Americans -- Arizona. | Mexican Americans -- History. | Public schools -- Arizona | Education, Elementary | Education, Elementary | Public schools -- Arizona | Education, Elementary | Public schools -- Arizona | Education, Elementary | Public schools -- Arizona | Education, Elementary | Public schools -- Arizona | Education, Elementary | Public schools -- Arizona | Education, Elementary | Public schools -- Arizona | Education, Elementary | Public schools -- Arizona | Education, Elementary | Public schools -- Arizona | Education, Elementary | Public schools -- Arizona | Education, Elementary | Public schools -- Arizona | Repatriation | Creative ability | Social skills | Arizona -- Emigration and immigration | Bills, Legislative | Illegal aliens | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
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