Phoenix: Associated Magazine Press. A photograph postcard including both Agnlo and Mohave Indian law enforcement together. The deputies identifed by number are: Jim Wakahaya, Fourth Chief, Mohave’s, Tono Jack, Big Chief Tonto’s, Capt. John Ketchum, Second Chief Mohave’s, Jim Fielding, Second Chief, Wallapai’s, Capt. Quasale, Big Chief Wallapai’s, Pete Okeata..... More
Prescott, AZ: Gosham A. Bray Treasurer Tonto Basin Wagon Road, 1883. The check is issued to one Henry Burns under the authority of Gorham A. Bray, who was the Treasurer for the Tonto Basin Wagon Road Commissioners. Henry Burns worked nine days for $10. From an oral history by five..... More
A pristine stereographic card taken by Daniel Francis Mitchell who photographed Arizona views for sale from 1877. Mitchell also was in partnership with Baer and remained active in the territory until at least 1883. Accompanied with an envelope from the War Department Headquarers of Arizona addressed to Major A.J. McGonnigle..... More
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While there are articles in the Arizona Republican on February 9, 1910 about the aviation event at the Territorial Fairgrounds, there are no photographs of the event. Card #1 postmarked Phoenix Feb 13, 1910 is a cyanotype photo of Louis Paulman "Making his record breaking flight for altitude 4600 feet"..... More
Washingon, DC (January): US Goverment Printing Office, 1973. 12mo. From the library of Barry M. Goldwater with his name stamped in gilt on front cover. 202pp. A pictorial directory for the Ninety-third Congress with photographs beginning with President Nixon, officers of the Senate, House, chaplains and officials of the capital..... More
Dr. Frances Gillmor in the English Department was better known as the specialist at the University of Arizona on Mexican art and culture but she was a good friend of the Publisher of the University of Kentucky Press, Jerry Crouch who had been her student. He begins by sending her..... More
Phoenix: Communist Party of Arizona, 1946. 1 page typed mimeographed page with crudely drawn image of Hooded Klan member with arm on Policeman's shoulder while poor African-America. Text asks people to prosecute the lynchers of Mr. and Mrs. George Dorsey and Mr. and Mrs. Roger Balcolm. It says U.S. Attorney-General..... More
Once Porfirio Diaz became President of Mexico, he proceeded to limit the tax liability for investors. At the same time, he began a process of protecting mining interest against both Indian and bandit raids. By 1890 American investors began to aggressively add mining, railroads and ranching as a new "gold..... More
Phoenix, [Nd.ca.1900): H,H, McNeil Co.'s. Octavo. 74 pages. Illustrated throughout. "We carry a complete stock of school books adopted by the Territorial Board of Education. Mining, warrants and court documents, flags, playing cards, post cards, typewriters, school desk and hundreds of other items. All forms are dated to date. It..... More
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1895. Printed on paper as check to A.C.M.I. [Arizona Co-Operative Mercantile Institution] from R.C. Kinder in the amount of $4.55 to Joe L-? in Black Canyon, Arizona Territory. While perfectly legal, checks in Arizona Territory in the 1880's and 1890's were usually on printed bank stock. Joseph Fish had been..... More
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Bifolium, 2 pages. An interesting handwritten letter describing an important person in the dairy and cattle business from his ranch in San Pedro. "Written to Friend Fowler (an associate in his farming and mining ventures in southern Arizona). I was in town [Tombstone] had inquired about Coffee & Cranes and..... More
8 1/2" x 6" photograph circa 1905 during the 4th of July Celebration. Since the large general merchandise story of Jacob Saltzman had been sold to the Babbit Brothers in 1908, it wold place the scene here in the early 1900's. The scene was taken from the balcony of the..... More
4 1/2" x 4" original photograph of what was called Frank Murphy's "impossible railroad". He had already managed the rich Congress Mine and the legendary United Verde Mine at Jerome. Now in 1897 his Prescott and Eastern Line was organized with full grading beginning in 1898. Since it would connect..... More
1881. The band and dance invitation was to be held at Woolsey Hall on March 17, 1881. Brass bands were a major point of civic pride as the cities became centers of business as well as agriculture but also of major social events. (See the Library of Congress overview on..... More
Phoenix: Phoenic Junior Chamber of Commerce, 1957. First Edition. Magazine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 38pp. The 1957 jaycees really put one on. Rodeo champs and lots of stirring scenes. The magazine binding has closed tears. More
Wire Photo of Winnie Ruth Judd measuring approximately 6" x 8" shows her twisting her handkerchief while she listens to testimony during her trial for murder (February 1932). Smudges on outside border. Wire photo of the detectives examining the trunk she traveled with on the train with the body parts..... More
February 23, 1884. Postcard dated Feb 23, 1884 from B.M. Jacob of First National Bank to Cochise County Bank, in the amount of $882.50 signed by B.M. Jacob Stamped in red, with Tombstone. Barron M. Jacobs was the organizer and first President of the Consolidated Bank of Tucson. He and..... More
1 autographed bid for furnishings for the new Prescott County Court House signed Campbell & Parker, builders, August 26, 1878. The advertisement for bids appeared in the Weekly Arizona Miner, August 23, 1878 issued. The bidders note their bids for the furnishings made by H.G.. Howe. In the August 9..... More
Phoenix, (Sept. 1, 1937): Salt River Valley Users Association. First Edition. Quarto. (28pp.). Proposal and offer of tax-exempt bonds ($1000) by the Salt River Water Users' Association, which is allowed total of $3, 197,000 in 1937. Text, Maps, fold-out map, and photographs of Phoenix area in 1930's. Bound in grey..... More
Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona, 1903. approx. 5 1/2" x 6 1/2" [12] pages. Here are the words of the songs which were sung by the students in the 18th year of its early history. It was in 1903 that they issued the first yearbook. Very scarce. OCLC shows a...... More
[Flagstaff, Arizona, 1918]: Arizona Illustrated Book Company. Oblong Octavo. 74 unnumbered pages (though lightly done so in pencil). Souvenir of Flagstaff and Coconino County, Arizona. Besides the photos of Flagstaff (including the Babbitt-Polson shop), there are several of Williams, Arizona including the special Red Cross Nursing Station set up to..... More
Mesa, Arizona: Mesa Union High School, 1931. Quarto. 150 leaves, unnumbered pages. Among the rarest of early Mesa yearbooks with over 400 signatures of a primarily LDS student body (also signed by 24 faculty members) , not only is this book signed by by Zedo Ishikawa (4 times), Mesa track..... More
A letter addressed to Friend Clark, dated February 15, 1901 (in answer to letter to a check for $50.00 that was due the previous November). H.W. Adams arrived from Maine and became the superintendent of William H. Bartlett's Sahuaro Ranch. Adams was with the Glendale (Az) Livestock Association which soon..... More
Los Angeles, California: The Southwest Museum, 1914. Limited Edition. 1/2 Leather. Octavo. Third edition limited to 500 copies signed by the author. The present copy is #299. Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, preface to this third edition by Joseph Munk.431 pp. bound in gray cloth lettered and decorated in brown..... More
Phoenix: , 1991. Soft Cover. Very Good. Signed by Author. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Red pictorial wraps. Illustrated. Stories of author's various experiences on a cattle ranch in a humorous vein. 145pp.Writer in the monthy magazine Arizona Cattlelog and writer of children's stories. Bio page of author..... More