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4-H Club reports

 Collection
Identifier: AZ 303
Abstract

Bound typescripts of agents reports, including photographs, charts, clippings, and examples of publications, 1948 to 1958.

Dates: 1948-1958

30,000 on the Hoof

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Identifier: AZ 342
Abstract

Holograph manuscript in pencil.

Dates: circa 1940

A Pima Remembers

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Identifier: AZ 154
Abstract

George Webb was a cattleman and farmer in Arizona as well as an Associate Judge of the Tribal Court, 1942-1950. This collection includes the author's original typescript of sketches of Pima history and traditions.

Dates: circa 1958-1959

A Survey of Lighting Facilities in the Classrooms Throughout The University of Arizona

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Identifier: AZ 502
Abstract

Typescript. Accompanied by letter of transmittal to J. Byron McCormick, president of The University of Arizona, November 12, 1949.

Dates: 1949

A Survey of the Financial Needs of The University of Arizona Library

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Identifier: AZ 236
Abstract

Typescript (original). Accompanied by letter of transmittal to the president of the University, and original letters and reports from department heads relative to book needs.

Dates: 1938

Agnes Marie Aamodt papers

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Identifier: MSHT0026
Abstract Papers of Agnes Marie Aamodt, nurse anthropologist and faculty member at the University of Arizona College of Nursing. Collection is primarily related to Aamodt's PhD research and 1971 dissertation, Enculturation Process and the Papago Child: An Inquiry Into the Acquisition of Perspectives on Health and Healing, but also her subsequent writings and research. Contains photographs and slides taken in and around Pisinemo, Arizona on the Tohono O'Odham Reservation where she lived with the...
Dates: 1926 - 2009

Edward Abbey papers

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Identifier: MS 271
Abstract

Papers, 1947-1990, of Edward Abbey, author. Contains biographical materials, correspondence, journals, notebooks, speeches, manuscripts, articles, audiotapes, videotapes, and supplemental materials documenting his life and career.

Dates: 1947-1990

Accent: on University of Arizona

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Identifier: MS 641
Abstract

“Accent: on University of Arizona” was a local radio program hosted by Mort Beach, the assistant director for the University of Arizona News Bureau for Radio-TV. The program includes interviews with prominent University of Arizona professors, scholars, and public figures about research and special topics.

Dates: 1976 - 1978

Account of Early Incidents Connected with the Peralta Grant

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Identifier: AZ 109
Abstract

James Addison Reavis, 1843-1914, was a swindler and forger, famous for attempting to fraudulently obtain 7,500 sq. miles of Arizona Territory by falsifying documents in Mexico and Spain to show a Spanish land grant to Don Miguel Peralta in 1748. Photocopy of typescript relates his version of events surrounding the Peralta land grant claim. This text was reproduced in The Peralta Grant; James Addison Reavis and the barony of Arizona, University of Oklahoma Press, 1960.

Dates: 1894

Account of the New entry of the Jesuit Fathers to the nations of the Chínipas, Varohios, Guazapari, Temori and many others

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Identifier: MS 214
Abstract

Photocopy of typescript, English translation.

Dates: 1676

Acontecimientos notables

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Identifier: MS 131
Abstract

Two attached manuscripts, in two hands, that concern Mexican Emporer Agustín de Iturbide.

Dates: 1821-1822

Papers of Vicente S. Acosta

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Identifier: MS 612
Abstract

Papers, 1947-1983, of Tucson, Arizona, Spanish teacher and folklorist, Vicente Sanchez Acosta (1918-1983). Contains professional correspondence, manuscripts and essays, research materials, and audio tapes documenting Acosta’s interests in the Spanish language, folk songs and folklore and Southwestern United States and Mexican culture.

Dates: 1947-1983

Act of Mexican Congress

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Identifier: MS 164
Abstract

A two-page manuscript, dated July 21, 1823, orders the political and ecclesiastical reorganization of the Provincias Internas de Occidente.

Dates: July 21, 1823

Ada M. Slatter Burlingham World War II correspondence

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Identifier: MS 721
Abstract

The Ada M. Slatter Burlingham World War II correspondence contains her letters home while she was in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II.

Dates: October 1st, 1944 - December 5th, 1945

Ramon F. Adams papers

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Identifier: AZ 310
Abstract

This collection includes correspondence and manuscripts chiefly concerning Western history and literature; it includes letters from friends, authors, editors, and publishers. Also included are original typescripts with holograph corrections of revised editions of his works Western Words: A Dictionary of the American West, 1968, and Six-Guns and Saddle Leather, 1969, both published by University of Oklahoma Press.

Dates: 1941-1969

Mrs. A. S. Addis photograph collection

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Identifier: MS 486
Abstract

Thirteen photographs, ca. 1875-1890, primarily of scenes in Chihuahua, Mexico. Most are images of Serrano and Tarahumara Indians particularly women and domestic work. There is also one image of prospectors on Phoenix street, dated 1887.

Dates: 1875-1890

Address Before the Burns Association of Brooklyn

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Identifier: MS 059
Abstract

The holographic text of a speech given by Bryant in January 1874 to the Burns Association of Brooklyn. Written in ink, it contains his edits. He discusses the genius of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns, and compares him to the English poet Samuel Butler. A typed transcription of the speech is included.

Dates: 1874

Address Before the Farmers, Fruit and Stock Growers of Arizona

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Identifier: AZ 203
Abstract

Louis C. Hughes, 1844-1915 was an Arizona pioneer, lawyer, newspaper publisher, and politician. This collection includes a typescript of an address by Hughes, before the meeting of the Farmers, Fruit and Stock Growers of Arizona, Oct. 18, 1895, on the occasion of its organization.

Dates: October 18, 1895

Addresses, Radio Talks, and Articles

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Identifier: AZ 294
Abstract

Materials include typescripts with holograph notes of addresses, radio talks, and articles given or written by Atkinson, chiefly concerning higher education. Some addresses accompanied by press releases.

Dates: 1919-1951

Agency for International Development Contract with the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil papers

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Identifier: AZ 441
Abstract

Correspondence, reports, workbook and historical materials.

Dates: 1962-1973

Agricultural education of less than college grade: conducted by the University of Arizona

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Identifier: AZ 067
Abstract

This collection is a report conducted by the University of Arizona that documents the history of Agricultural Education in the United States.

Dates: 1940

Records of the Air Pollution Control Advisory Council

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Identifier: AZ 264
Abstract

Minutes of meetings, correspondence, ordinances, rules and regulations, legislative bills, reports, and miscellaneous material.

Dates: 1966-1968

Al Williams Lantern Slide collection

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Identifier: MS 709
Abstract

Small collection of lantern slides of early oil drilling activity in the Four Corners area, mostly taken in the San Juan River basin area of Utah east of Mexican Hat.

Dates: circa 1894-1920

Album of a Trip from Needles, California, to Parker, Arizona

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Identifier: AZ 524
Abstract

Album of 47 photos. Includes photos of a visit by automobile to the tent camps of the Starlight and the Mexican Girl mines.

Dates: 1905

Album of Photographs of the American Embassy Residence in Tokyo, Japan

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Identifier: AZ 282
Abstract

Silk photograph album with fourteen mounted, mostly black and white photographs with typescript captions. Accompanied by a letter of transmittal to University of Arizona President Richard A. Harvill from Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer.

Dates: 1964-1966

Albuquerque, New Mexico photograph album

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Identifier: MS 249
Abstract

Photograph album containing 51 photographs of Albuquerque, New Mexico street scenes, buildings, homes, and families, ca. 1895-1905.

Dates: circa 1895-1905

Grace Alexander scrapbooks

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Identifier: MS 672
Abstract

This collection contains scrapbooks from Grace Alexander including her Globe High School graduation book, 1917 Globe High School yearbook, The Papoose, a 1919 group black and white photograph of Miami High staff and students and a scrapbook relating to her time as a student at the University of Arizona.

Dates: 1917 - 1919

Alexander S. Henderson papers

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Identifier: AZ 027
Abstract

Chiefly records of the A.S. Henderson general merchandise store in Patagonia, Arizona, from 1900 to 1940 including inventories, correspondence, merchandise ads, ledgers, monthly account books, and bills.

Dates: 1888-1963 ; (bulk 1900-1954)

Papers of William Burnham Alexander

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Identifier: AZ 171
Abstract William Burnham Alexander, 1877-1957, was an engineer. The collection includes correspondence, agreements, description of agricultural lands of the Rillito and Santa Cruz Rivers in Pima County, articles of incorporation of the Federal Power and Water Co., and various related documents pertaining to water power projects in the Coronado National Forest area in Arizona as proposed by the Great Western Power Co., the Sabino Canyon Power and Irrigation Project of Pima County, and the Federal...
Dates: 1907-1929

Alianza Hispano-Americana records

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Identifier: MS 663
Abstract Papers relating to the Alianza Hispano-Americana, which offered low-cost life insurance, social activities, and other services to primarily Mexican/Mexican-Americans living in the United States and Mexico. Founded in Tucson in 1894, Alianza was one of the first organizations to offer life insurance and burial policies to Mexican-American citizens. This collections includes photographs, financial files, correspondence between lodge secretaries, convention files, published materials,...
Dates: 1894-1965; Majority of material found within 1920-1950