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1. Bloom Southwest Jewish Archives Photograph Collection

   Consists of color and black-and-white photographs and negatives, copy prints, slides, and contact prints depicting Jewish individuals and institutions. The bulk of the material is from Arizona, California, Texas and New Mexico. These photographs are ...

   castanoe - 2022-02-11 13:29

2. Papers of the Hein family

   The Hagedorn family was a German family who emigrated to the United States in the 1880s. One branch of the family settled in Brooklyn, NY and began a hotel business while the other half settled in Skull Valley, AZ and purchased part interest in the ...

   castanoe - 2022-02-28 10:49

3. Six Shooter's Who's Who

   Guy J. Giffen was a California author and local historian. In this collection is an unpublished typescript of Giffen's bibliography of western badmen and peace officers active from 1865 through the 1890s. The typescript lists 362 outlaws/peace ...

   castanoe - 2022-03-07 14:33

4. Mormons in Arizona

   Historical sketches, minutes of meetings, letters, journals, diaries, and autobiographical sketches including histories written by R.E. Porter and George S. Tanner relating to Mormon settlements in Arizona, chiefly at Joseph City and other points along ...

   castanoe - 2022-03-17 12:46

5. Papers Relating to His [Thomas Edwin Farish] History of Arizona

   The collection presents typescripts, in the form of eight volume notebooks, by Arizona historian Thomas Edwin Farish that pertain to his history of the state of Arizona. The title pages of volumes 1-4 and 7 were inscribed by the author to Governor G.W.P. ...

   castanoe - 2022-03-25 10:40

6. Comments by James Hancock on Walter Noble Burns' Book Tombstone

   James Hancock lived in Tombstone at the time of the O.K. Corral gunfight, a 30-second shootout between lawmen and outlaws known as the Cowboys on October 26, 1881. Notes indicate Hancock's comments were written in Paradise, AZ on March 30 and 31, ...

   castanoe - 2022-03-25 10:41

7. Ramon F. Adams Papers

   Ramon F. Adams was a Western writer and bibliographer. The collection comprises correspondence and manuscripts chiefly concerning Western history and literature, as well as letters from friends, authors, editors, and publishers. Included are original ...

   castanoe - 2022-03-29 17:31

8. Papers of Joseph Thomas McKinney

   Autobiographical sketch, letter, and documents. The 19-page sketch includes his involvement as a law enforcement officer in the Graham-Tewksbury feud; and a letter, dated 1927, to his son describes a hanging at the Arizona State Prison at Florence. Also ...

   castanoe - 2022-06-14 09:51

9. Papers of Floyd S. Fierman

   The material in this collection is organized into two groupings, according to the geographic location of the Jewish individuals, families, or institutions researched. The first four boxes contain materials relevant to New Mexico's Jewish history. The ...

   castanoe - 2022-06-14 14:49

10. Letter, 1938 Dec. 22, Prescott (Ariz.), to Mrs. John W. Mayes, Phoenix (Ariz.)

    Mikul G. Levy was a pioneer, shop-keeper, and postmaster in Ajo, AZ. The collection contains an original typescript letter to Mrs. John W. Mayes describing his mining and mercantile activities in Nogales and Ajo, AZ from 1883 to 1931, including his ...

    castanoe - 2022-06-30 15:47

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