Photograph album with photographs taken by an unidentified photographer of mining town Ajo, Arizona, 1917-1918. Depicted are copper mining operations at the New Cornelia mine, as well as identified men and women. 9 photographs are attributed to Hadsel...
Description:
Captions in English.
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona, Arizona., and Ajo (Ariz.)
Subject (Name):
Hadsell Foto.
Subject (Topic):
Copper miners, Copper mines and mining, and Mines and mineral resources
Autograph letter, signed, from Edward Otho Cresap Ord to Jefferson Davis, then Secretary of War of the United States. Ord describes the reaction in California and Mexico to the Gadsden Purchase, including American filibusters in Mexican territory and ...
Description:
Edward Otho Cresap Ord (1818-1883) was an engineer and officer in the United States Army stationed in California and New Mexico Territory, circa 1839-1854.
Subject (Geographic):
Mexico., Arizona., New Mexico., Mexico, United States., and United States
Subject (Name):
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889. and Ord, Edward Otho Cresap, 1818-1883.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Filibusters, Gadsden Purchase, Land grants, Railroads, Surveying, and Foreign relations
Portrait shows from behind, a shirtless Hopi man sitting on a blanket on a board raised off the ground before a wall, weaving a blanket; body slightly to left; head in profile to left
Description:
Title from caption in red ink at foot of image. "607" at the head of the caption.
Publications and a small group of correspondence and photographs related to the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona, 1943-1945, collected by Mary Burford Courage, a schoolteacher at the camp. Publications published by the United States War Relocation Au...
Description:
The United States declared war on Japan in 1941 following an attack by Japan on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Under authority granted by Executive Order 9066, issued in February 1942, the federal government incarcerated over 12...
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona., Arizona, United States., Poston., Poston, and Poston (Ariz.)
Subject (Name):
Courage, Mary Burford., Kitaji family., Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.), and United States. War Relocation Authority.
Subject (Topic):
Concentration camps, Japanese, Japanese Americans, Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945, World War, 1939-1945, and Evacuation of civilians
Publications and a small group of correspondence and photographs related to the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona, 1943-1945, collected by Mary Burford Courage, a schoolteacher at the camp. Publications published by the United States War Relocation Au...
Description:
The United States declared war on Japan in 1941 following an attack by Japan on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Under authority granted by Executive Order 9066, issued in February 1942, the federal government incarcerated over 12...
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona., Arizona, United States., Poston., Poston, and Poston (Ariz.)
Subject (Name):
Courage, Mary Burford., Kitaji family., Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.), and United States. War Relocation Authority.
Subject (Topic):
Concentration camps, Japanese, Japanese Americans, Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945, World War, 1939-1945, and Evacuation of civilians
Photograph album relating to the Phoenix Indian School in Phoenix, Arizona. Included are views of both male and female students as they participate in several activities, among them a dress parade, a gardening project at the school, the girls' basketb...
Description:
C. W. Goodman was superintendent of the Phoenix Indian School between 1902 and 1915.
Photographs of Hopi Indians taken at Oraibi and Walpi pueblos in Arizona. Included are views of pueblo structures and hogans, pottery and baskets, and of the daily activities of carrying water, herding sheep and tending other livestock, working in irr...
Description:
"Curtis" and three-digit number on each print, many copyrighted 1900.
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona., Arizona, Oraibi (Ariz.), and Walpi (Ariz.)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Hopi Indians, Tewa Indians, Pueblos, and Snake dance
Photographs of the Apache Indian Reservation in San Carlos, Arizona, including views of the new guardhouse, a scouts camp, and Indian children at school
Description:
Manuscript captions on verso of some mounts.
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona, Arizona., and San Carlos Indian Reservation (Ariz.)
Subject (Topic):
Indian reservations, Indians of North America, and Apache Indians
Records related to a community government formed by Japanese Americans incarcerated at the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona, 1942-1945. Material includes reports from committees on health care, social welfare, and education, as well as a charter for ...
Description:
The United States declared war on Japan in 1941 following an attack by Japan on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Under authority granted by Executive Order 9066, issued in February 1942, the federal government incarcerated over 12...
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona., United States., Arizona, Poston., and Poston (Ariz.)
Subject (Name):
Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.) and United States. War Relocation Authority.
Subject (Topic):
Concentration camps, Japanese, Japanese Americans, Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945, World War, 1939-1945, and Evacuation of civilians
Correspondence, loose manuscript and typescript pages, a scrapbook, and two photograph albums related to Samuel M. McCowan’s time as superintendent of the Phoenix Indian School in Phoenix, Arizona, and efforts creating the “Model Indian School” exhibi...
Description:
Samuel M. McCowan (1863-1924) was superintendent of the Fort Mojave Industrial School from 1890 to 1896 and Phoenix Indian School from 1897 to 1902 (both in Arizona), as well as the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma after 1902. In 1904, McCowan was r...
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona., Oklahoma., Arizona, Phoenix (Ariz.), and Saint Louis (Mo.)
Subject (Name):
McCowan, Samuel M., Chilocco Indian School., Phoenix Indian School, and Louisiana Purchase Exposition
