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Photographs of David Lee Guss

1967 to 1982
AZ 505
Collection Guide
Photograph of Children Playing With a Dog in an Alley, Nogales, Sonora, 1968

David Lee Guss is a free-lance photographer from Tucson, AZ. A number of his photographs appeared in his documentary film The Border. This collection contains 8x10" photographs taken chiefly in Arizona from 1967 to 1982. Subjects include Tucson buildings, parades, and people; motion pictures filmed in Arizona; Native Americans in Arizona, including members of the Apache, Yaqui, and Tohono O'odham tribes; scenes and people in U.S.-Mexico border towns, Tombstone, AZ and ghost towns in Arizona and New Mexico.

Included materials:
Photographs
Subject Area:
Arizona & Southwest
Mexican
Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
Performing Arts
Collection Area:
Borderlands

Land Acknowledgement

We respectfully acknowledge the University of Arizona is on the land and territories of Indigenous peoples. Today, Arizona is home to 22 federally recognized tribes, with Tucson being home to the O’odham and the Yaqui. Committed to diversity and inclusion, the University strives to build sustainable relationships with sovereign Native Nations and Indigenous communities through education offerings, partnerships, and community service.