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Administrative NoteThe Evans Ranch School for Boys was founded in 1902 by Harry David Evans, a Cambridge-educated Briton, as a college-preparatory academy for twenty boys aged 15-18. It was located on El Rancho Bonito in Mesa, Arizona and was intended to provide students from the eastern seaboard with a western, ranch-style setting. Students lived at the Mesa location for most of the year, and around May 1st of each year, they were moved to a property near Flagstaff, Arizona for the summer months. This property was located a block north of where Schultz Creek joins the Rio de Flag, and it included cabins for a students and a summer home for Evans and wife Mabel, called Evancoyd. While at the summer location, students often took horseback trips to places of interest, including Grand Canyon, Wupatki and Walnut Canyon; they also attended numerous events such as round-ups, rodeos, Hopi Snake Dances and Fourth of July celebrations in Flagstaff. In 1921, the Evans School was moved to Tucson, Arizona. Lionel F. Brady, who had been a master at the school since 1910, purchased the Mesa property and renamed it the Mesa Ranch School in 1922. He also purchased Evancoyd and continued to bring students to Flagstaff each summer. The Mesa Ranch School was destroyed by fire in 1943; the fate of the Tucson location of the Evans School is not clear from materials provided with the collection. Scope and ContentThe collection includes legal documents establishing ownership of the land on which the school was located. Also included are a large number of photographic images in scrapbooks, depicting a wide range of locations and activities around Arizona. These include the Mesa and Tucson school locations and surrounding areas, life on the school campuses, different routes taken by students to Flagstaff, and trips to locations in Northern Arizona. Many of the photographs depict Native Americans, primarily Hopi, as well as their ceremonies and dances. The collection also includes five yearbooks produced by the school. ArrangementThis collection is arranged in the following three series:RestrictionsConditions Governing Access
Viewing restrictions were placed on particular photographs in this collection due to the culturally sensitive nature of the subjects. These restrictions were placed by the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office. Contact the Museum of Northern Arizona archivist for information on obtaining permission for viewing these images. Conditions Governing Use
Unpublished and published manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder. Controlled Access TermsPersonal Name(s) Lowell, John Corporate Name(s) Santa Fe Railroad Geographic Name(s) Agua Fria River (Ariz.) Black River (Ariz.) Buckeye (Ariz.) Camp Verde (Ariz.) Canyon Diablo (Coconino County, Ariz. : Canyon) Casa Grande Ruins (Ariz.) Chandler (Ariz.) El Tovar Hotel Evans School (Tucson, Ariz.) Flagstaff (Ariz.) Florence (Ariz.) Fort Apache (Ariz.) Fort McDowell (Ariz.) Globe (Ariz.) Grand Canyon (Ariz.) Granite Reef Dam (Ariz.) Hassayampa (Ariz.) Holbrook (Ariz.) Hopi Indian Reservation (Ariz.) Jerome (Ariz.) Lake Mary (Coconino County, Ariz.) Little Colorado River (N.M. and Ariz.) Long Valley (Ariz. : Valley) Mesa (Ariz.) Mission San Xavier del Bac (Tucson, Ariz.) Montezuma Castle (Ariz.) Montezuma Well (Yavapai County, Ariz.) Mormon Flat (Utah) Mormon Lake (Coconino County, Ariz. : Lake) Natural Bridges National Monument (Utah) Oraibi (Ariz.) Painted Desert (Ariz.) Payson (Ariz.) Phoenix (Ariz.) Prescott (Ariz.) Roosevelt Dam (Ariz.) Roosevelt Lake (Ariz.) Salt River (Ariz. : River) San Francisco Peaks (Ariz.) Snowflake (Ariz.) Sunset Crater (Ariz.) Taylor (Ariz.) Tonto Basin (Ariz.) Walpi (Ariz.) -- Social life and customs Subject(s) Ambulances Apache Indians Baseball -– Arizona -– History Biplanes Goodfellow family Hopi Indians Hopi dance Horse racing Model T automobile Mohave Indians Navajo Indians Ostriches Petroglyphs Private Schools – Arizona Ranch houses Rodeo Tennis Tohono O'Odham Indians Trading posts -- Arizona Yaqui Indians Administrative InformationPreferred Citation
Evans School collection, MS-015 [Box Number]. The Museum of Northern Arizona. Flagstaff, Arizona. Acquisition Information
M.T. Edwards donated the photographs and scrapbooks in 1962 (MS-15). A subsequent donation of scrapbooks and yearbooks was made by Mrs. David P. Small, niece of Mabel T. Evans, in 1967 (MS-120). Legal documents were donated by Marc Gaede in 1973 (MS-273). Processing Information
Processed in October of 2009. Container List
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