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  1. Arizona, Southwestern, and Borderlands Photograph Collection

    Photographs documenting Tucson history, exploratory expeditions to the West in 1884-1885 and 1885-1886, and Native American groups of the American Southwest and Mexico. ...

    castanoe - 2022-02-15 18:02

  2. Alianza Hispano-Americana records

    Papers relating to the Alianza Hispano-Americana, which offered low-cost life insurance, social activities, and other services to primarily Mexicans and Mexican-Americans living in the United States and Mexico. Founded in Tucson in 1894, Alianza was one ...

    Molly Stothert-... - 2022-03-01 12:59

  3. Documents Relating to San Juan de la Boquillas y Nogales Land Grant

    Land originally granted to Captain Ygnacio Elias Gonzales and Juan Nepomucino Felix, included are deeds of sale 1879-1899 and documents filed with Court of Private Land Claims concerning rights to this land in 1891. ...

    castanoe - 2022-03-10 14:15

  4. Philipp Segesser Papers

    Philipp Segesser was a Jesuit missionary in Sonora, Mexico. The collection contains papers relating to money owed to Segesser while Visitador-General of Sonora, Mexico, by Captain Francisco Xavier de Miranda. Accompanying the papers are supporting records ...

    castanoe - 2022-06-30 16:28

  5. Photographs of David Lee Guss

    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 ...

    castanoe - 2022-08-01 14:00

  6. The Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamante and Jeannine E. Relly Oral History Collection

    This collection is comprised of mp3 files of oral histories with journalists, activists, and dignitaries from the United States and Mexico. They discuss the environment of reporting and state of journalistic freedom in the northern and southern states of ...

    trentp - 2023-07-14 11:39

  7. Patricia Preciado Martin papers

    Arizona author Patricia Preciado Martin was born in Prescott and raised in Tucson. She received a bachelor's degree in education from the University of Arizona in 1960, graduating Summa Cum Laude. Her collections of short stories and oral histories ...

    adhoward - 2024-01-30 15:36

  8. The Documented Border Collection

    The Documented Border Collection is a subset of our Borderlands Collections and is being made available through an open access digital archive. Currently, it includes the Lawrence Gipe Operation Streamline Sketches and The Celeste González de Bustamante ...

    trentp - 2024-02-23 11:38

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