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    • Photograph of four-room school house built in 1919

    • Photograph of four-room school house built in 1919

    • Unknown

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photograph

    • B&W Photograph of four-room school built in 1919 to upgrade from the old church house where school was previously held. There were three teachers, one per room, and the fourth room was used for band or orchestra. By 1926, grades included to the...
    • Post Office

    • Post Office

    • Unknown

    • T&E for Communication: Written Communication T&E: Mailboxes

    • Two adjoining walls of bronze mailboxes with an ornate bonze barred clerk's window and a glass-topped wooden counter. The mail boxes are from the time when Don Tanner was Postmaster, 1930-1956. When Corydon Cooley was appointed Show Low's first...
    • Photograph of Apache Railway between Holbrook and Maverick, AZ

    • Photograph of Apache Railway between Holbrook and Maverick, AZ

    • Scott, John

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • Color Photograph of the Train to Maverick. In 1916, Tom Pollock, owner of the Flagstaff Lumber Company, organized the Apache Railway Company with the assistance of the Santa Fe Railroad to build 72 miles of track from Holbrook to the new sawmill...
    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 7-5-2002 -- Fundraiser Quilt

    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 7-5-2002 -- Fundraiser Quilt

    • Rodeo-Chediski Wildfire evacuees

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • Color photograph of Melanie Hefner, Carol Webb and Sue Sisson holding wildfire fundraiser quilt the spring of 2003 at the Show Low Historical Society Museum. The king-size patchwork quilt, 7 1/2 ft x 7 1/2 ft, is made of cotton and bears...
    • Eb Lewis Presentation Quilt

    • Eb Lewis Presentation Quilt

    • Nikolaus, Elizabeth

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Certificate Commemorative

    • Cotton quilt, 66" x 87", has a painted portrait of Eb Lewis in center surrounded by wheels with names of church members on spokes, the Deuce of Clubs card, a portrait of a White Mountain Apache, and mountains and LDS Church. Elizabeth Nikolaus,...
    • Photograph of Goldwater Hospital Dedication

    • Photograph of Goldwater Hospital Dedication

    • Marks, Kenneth and Susan

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • B/W Photograph of Josephine Goldwater Hospital Dedication Ceremony on Saturday, April 22, 1961 at Show Low, AZ. Shown are Eric H. Marks, Lloyd Rhoton, Bruce Reidhead (Mayor of Show Low), Hon. Barry Goldwater (U.S. Senator), Hon. Paul Fannin...
    • Framed Photograph of Eb Lewis holding Burden Basket

    • Framed Photograph of Eb Lewis holding Burden Basket

    • Lewis, Lucinda

    • Personal Artifacts: Gear: Basket, Burden

    • Color photograph of Eb Lewis holding one of the many American Native artifacts he collected throughout his career, a large White Mountain Apache burden basket, circa 1960s. Native American women used burden baskets to carry grasses, nuts, pine...
    • Mountain Lion Hide with Spear that Killed It

    • Mountain Lion Hide with Spear that Killed It

    • Lewis, Eb (Spear maker)

    • Natural History: Biology: Lion; T&E for Science and Technology: Armament - Edged: Spear

    • 7 1/2 ft. long golden-brown mountain lion skin from the White Mountains of Arizona and 8 ft. long metal spear handmade by Eb Lewis, circa 1960. Trophy mountain lion skin that Eb Lewis killed with his handmade spear somewhere in the White...
    • Eb Lewis' Cash & Carry Store Display Case

    • Eb Lewis' Cash & Carry Store Display Case

    • Lewis, Eb

    • Building Furnishings: Furniture: Cabinet, Display

    • Wood-framed glass showcase, 36"x41 1/2"x14"D with metal legs. Built by Eb Lewis ca. 1950s, containing a 17 1/4" x 14 1/4" Navajo rug, 2 scrap books and business memorabilia such as the Cash & Carry logo patch, business cards, a receipt book, check...
    • McNary Barbershop's Chair

    • McNary Barbershop's Chair

    • Koken Company

    • Businesses

    • 37"x 26 1/2"x 70" metal chair upholstered with brown leather on a heavy metal circular base, circa 1920s For five decades, McNary, located 19 miles South of Show Low, was a thriving sawmill town where people from all over the White Mountains came...
    • Wood Stove

    • Wood Stove

    • Guaranteed Ranges

    • T&E for Materials: Food Processing T&E: Stove, Wood

    • Black cast iron kitchen wood-burning cook stove with stovepipe, date of manufacture unknown. Don and Angela Borrego came from Colorado to the White Mountains during the 1950's. She wanted a wood stove for their summer kitchen outside of their...
    • The Primary Song Book, Including Marches and Voluntaries

    • The Primary Song Book, Including Marches and Voluntaries

    • Gen. Bd of the Primary Assoc. of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Book

    • 5 1/2" x 7 3/4" 200 page songbook with tan hardback cover, copyright 1939, Salt Lake City, Utah. Religion classes and Primary were organized by Stake President Jesse N. Smith on January 25, 1891 in Adair. Besides classes, Primary dances taught...
    • Cannon

    • Cannon

    • Eb Lewis

    • T&E for Science and Technology: Armament Technology: Cannon

    • Eb Lewis was reading about Napoleon and in the book there were the specifications on how to make a cannon. He said, "I can do that!" He cast his cannon out of bronze, putting his name and Show Low's in the mold. Then he wondered if it would shoot....
    • Photograph of the Show Low City Statue

    • Photograph of the Show Low City Statue

    • Duvall, John D.

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • Digital Photograph of a life-sized amalgamate-bronze sculpture of two men, representing Corydon E. Cooley and Marion Clark, sitting at a table playing cards. An extra seat was provided for anyone wanting to join the game. The statue, sculpted by...
    • Photograph of Corydon Cooley's Gravesite

    • Photograph of Corydon Cooley's Gravesite

    • Duvall, John D.

    • Communication Artifact: Ceremonial Artifact: Tombstone

    • Bronze plaque set in concrete tombstone on the gravesite of Corydon E. Cooley at Fort Apache Army Cemetery in Whiteriver, White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation. The government grave marker is incorrect. The actual date of Cooley's death was...
    • Photograph of Original Show Low Jail

    • Photograph of Original Show Low Jail

    • Duvall, John D.

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • Digital Photograph of original Show Low Jail, built in the 1930s by Navajo County Deputy Sheriff Ray Butler. The flat-roofed flagstone structure, approx. 7 ft x 8 ft, has one metal door with a barred-window and one small barred window opening on...
    • McNary's Business District: General Store, Offices and Theater

    • McNary's Business District: General Store, Offices and Theater

    • Curro, Sally

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • B & W Photograph of McNary, AZ Business District ca. 1950s McNary was a transplanted and segregated "company town" about 4 mles south of Pinetop, AZ on Highway 260, 1923-1980. Before it was McNary, it was called Cooley, Arizona as it had been...
    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 6-22-2002 Evacuation Order

    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 6-22-2002 Evacuation Order

    • City of Show Low, AZ

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Letter

    • The official evacuation order for the citizens of Show Low dated June 22, 2002, signed by Mayor Gene Kelly and Chief of Police John Corder. This evacuation order was hand delivered to every citizen of Show Low instructing them to gather up...
    • Photograph of the Old LDS Church Bell

    • Photograph of the Old LDS Church Bell

    • City of Show Low, AZ

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • The bell in the belfry of the Old LDS Show Low Ward Church building served the community as a prompt that meetings were about to begin. As the years passed, the old hemp rope that was used for the ringing broke, and it became a challenge for the...

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