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Arizona

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf

Found in 47 Collections and/or Records:

Oatman story

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340397]
Identifier: MSS 2429
Scope and Contents

This volume compiles the history of the Roys Boise Oatman family, their journey west to California, their massacre in 1851, and the story of the surviving children after the massacre: Olive Ann Oatman and Lorenzo Dow Oatman. The volume also includes those involved in the rescue of Olive Ann Oatman. The volume includes copies of letters, photographs, maps, and an index at the end of the volume. (238 pp.)

Dates: 1851-1903

Otto Duke family papers, 1933-1975

 Series — Box 1: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197231024636]
Identifier: MSS 1536 Series 1
Scope and Contents

This series contains Otto Duke's family papers dating from 1933-1975. Includes bills, correspondence, information about the Salt Lake Home, correspondence in behalf of his son Keith, birthday cards, postcards/memorabilia/souvenirs from Alaska, Arizona, and other places.

Dates: 1933-1975

Otto Duke papers on the F. C. Torkelson Company, 1946-1975

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1536 Series 8
Scope and Contents

Includes diagrams and materials dealing with projects for the F. C. Torkelson Co., such as expense records, operating costs, Bailey Meter Co., limestone crushing plant, electric mine hoists, Kennecott Mill reports, Ferron Canyon Coal job, Hayden Smelter (Arizona), Smelter emissions control, and more from 1946-1975.

Dates: 1946-1975

Joel Ricks papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 5878
Scope and Contents

Contains religious documents, notebooks, datebooks, diaries, clippings, and maps documenting Ricks' experience as a Mormon missionary in the American South. Materials date from between 1877 and 1939. Also includes a unique edition of The Book of Mormon and an 1877 diary chronicling Ricks' mission to St. Louis.

Dates: 1877-1939

Silas Derryfield Smith papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230233527]
Identifier: MSS SC 21
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and typewritten autobiographies telling of Smith's youth in Snowflake, Arizona, marriages, labors as a missionary in Colorado, endeavors in Arizona and Utah, genealogical data and information about his father, Jesse N. Smith. Also includes a handwritten biography of his mother, Emma Seraphine West Smith, and two handwritten historical articles, one describing the building of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad in New Mexico, and the other relating Indian stories.

Dates: 1937-1954

Joseph O. Stradling, Jr. family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6013
Scope and Contents The collections consists primarily of genealogical material regarding the immediate ancestors and descendants of Joseph Obadiah Stradling, Jr. and Harriet Jane Lamb (photographs, personal histories, family group sheets, scrapbooks, news clippings, correspondence, etc.), but also contains the journals, personal scrapbooks, and Presidential (Arizona Temple)/patriarchal papers of Stradling himself, all of which cover the span of approximately 1824-1987. Included is a 300-page volume entitled...
Dates: 1891-1997

J. J. Taylor letter

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197235231708]
Identifier: MSS 8557
Scope and Contents Handwritten letter from J. J. Taylor, Payson, Arizona, to his brother Rick about business matters. Includes a description of a mutual acquaintance, G. W. Davis, being imprisoned for forgery in selling property. Also includes detail about a man named James Taylor who was wanted for robbing a bank and other charges. Two law officers tried to arrest Taylor when he shot and killed one, and then was shot and killed by the other. The letter concludes with J. J. Taylor writing about water rights...
Dates: 1898 January 6

Wilfrid C. Bailey Anthropology Curriculum Project files, 1964-1978

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2411 Series 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Contains papers, photographs, books, theses, and other materials from the life and work of Wilfrid C. Bailey. They include material from his professional work, projects in which he took part, his correspondence, photographs and other material from various trips he took to locations around the world, numerous publications, and several master's theses and dissertations which he approved or took part in somehow. The collection spans the years 1937-1995.

Dates: Other: 1964-1978

Wilfrid C. Bailey general correspondence, 1947-1994

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2411 Series 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Contains papers, photographs, books, theses, and other materials from the life and work of Wilfrid C. Bailey. They include material from his professional work, projects in which he took part, his correspondence, photographs and other material from various trips he took to locations around the world, numerous publications, and several master's theses and dissertations which he approved or took part in somehow. The collection spans the years 1937-1995.

Dates: Other: 1947-1994

Wilfrid C. Bailey journals, 1939-1967

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2411 Series 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Contains papers, photographs, books, theses, and other materials from the life and work of Wilfrid C. Bailey. They include material from his professional work, projects in which he took part, his correspondence, photographs and other material from various trips he took to locations around the world, numerous publications, and several master's theses and dissertations which he approved or took part in somehow. The collection spans the years 1937-1995.

Dates: Other: 1939-1967