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    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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,...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • Blacksmithing Tools: Anvil

    • Blacksmithing Tools: Anvil

    • Unknown

    • Metalworking Tools and Equipment

    • 27"x11"x10" iron anvil of unknown date or origin, passed down to George Q. Matkin in 1896 by his uncle Charles Drury. George Q. learned the trade of blacksmithing from his Uncle Charles Drury
    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 7-5-2002 Fundraiser Tee Shirt

    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 7-5-2002 Fundraiser Tee Shirt

    • Unknown

    • Personal Artifact: Clothing -- Outerwear: T-Shirt

    • Grey cotton silkscreened tee shirt manufactured to sell as souvenirs for fundraising. The Tee Shirt was produced by an unknown source for the purpose of raising funds to reforest burned acreage during the worst fire in White Mountain history. The...
    • Photograph of Corydon E. Cooley

    • Photograph of Corydon E. Cooley

    • Unknown

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • Corydon Eliphalet Cooley came to the White Mountains around 1870. The U.S. Army hired him to help build an outpost at Camp Thomas, (later changed to Fort Apache in 1879), Apache Territory. He was a scout under Lt. Alexander O. Brodie and served as...
    • Photograph of Niels Samuel Hansen

    • Photograph of Niels Samuel Hansen

    • Unknown

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • 5.5" x 7" B&W Photograph of Niels Samuel Hansen, the father of Lakeside, AZ. While living in Show Low in 1903, Niels Hansen surveyed the ditch that brought water down from Lakeside with his homemade water level instrument. The instrument used...
    • Photograph of Early Logging Train

    • Photograph of Early Logging Train

    • Unknown

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • B&W Photograph of Early Logging Train. In the early days, lumbering, ranching and freighting were the only industries on the mountain. Lumbering camps owned by Southwest Forest Industries, such as Standard, sprang up into towns and then...
    • Photograph of Logging by Horses

    • Photograph of Logging by Horses

    • Unknown

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photograph

    • B&W Photograph of early logging by horses. Sawmills began operating in the White Mountains around 1880, making lumber and shingles to build houses for early settlers. Logs were first hauled by team and wagon, and then brought in by train.
    • Photograph of Freight Wagons

    • Photograph of Freight Wagons

    • Unknown

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • B&W Photograph of Freight Wagons. Freighting was the occupation of many men who needed to supplement their living as subsistence farmers. Freight was hauled from Holbrook, where the railroad went through, to the stores in the communities of...
    • Photograph of Guests at Cooley Ranch

    • Photograph of Guests at Cooley Ranch

    • Unknown

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • B&W Photograph believed to be taken at Cooley ranch, south of Show Low in 1909. From left to right: Corydon E. Cooley, man in wagon behind Cooley is believed to be, George Smalley, a reporter for the Arizona Republican, Ernest Lewis, an...
    • Photograph of Cooley Ranch house

    • Photograph of Cooley Ranch house

    • Unknown

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • Located at Indian Pine, this two-story, nine-room frame ranch house was a government forage station, important telegraph office for Fort Apache and hospitality house for freighters, soldiers, diplomats and a variety of other visitors traveling...
    • Photograph of Lillie and George Woolford

    • Photograph of Lillie and George Woolford

    • Unknown

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photograph

    • B&W Photograph of Lillie and George Woolford taken on October 30, 1909 in Pinetop on their honeymoon. Lillie Hall Woolford met George Woolford at a dance while she was working for the B.I.A. in Whiteriver. Two young Indian girls she worked with...
    • Dentist Tools of Dr. Joseph Sydney Woolford

    • Dentist Tools of Dr. Joseph Sydney Woolford

    • Unknown

    • T&E for Science and Technology: Medical T&E: Pliers

    • Three steel pliers, the dental tools of Dr. Joseph Sydney Woolford, the first Apache County Physician, before Apache and Navajo Counties were divided. Joseph graduated from a Pennsylvania medical school in 1873. He first moved to Northern...
    • Old LDS Church Folding Chairs

    • Old LDS Church Folding Chairs

    • Unknown

    • Building Furnishings: Furniture: Chair, Folding

    • Two wooden attached folding chairs some of the welcome replacements of the wooden benches that snagged clothing in the old LDS Show Low Ward. It is told of one member who habitually came in late to meetings. He entered the building talking to...

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