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    • Old LDS Church Pulpit

    • Old LDS Church Pulpit

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    • Building Furnishings: Furniture: Podium

    • This wooden single pedestal cabinet covered with a burgundy oil tablecloth is 30"Lx13"Wx35 1/2"H. Built about 1915, this podium served as the pulpit for the Show Low Ward of the LDS Church. The building was used not only for church meetings, but...
    • Photograph of The Old LDS Church

    • Photograph of The Old LDS Church

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    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photograph

    • B&W Photograph of the first ward building of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Show Low Ward. Prior to 1915, the LDS meeting place was one of the original buildings of Cooley and Huning, a barn that belonged to Bishop James C....
    • Photograph of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Sydney Woolford

    • Photograph of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Sydney Woolford

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    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photograph

    • Color-enhanced Portrait of Dr. Joseph Sydney and Clara Sarah Evans Woolford. Dr. Woolford was the first doctor in Apache County. Clara was a nurse when they met while working at a Northern California mining hospital. They returned to his New...
    • Photograph of the Stratton Trading Post

    • Photograph of the Stratton Trading Post

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    • Structures: Building: Store

    • B&W Photograph of Stratton Trading Post. James A. Stratton opened the Trading Post in about 1942 on what was (and still is) the main street in Show Low, just down from Bill's Bar. Service was mainly a restaurant and gas station, but for a while...
    • Photograph of William J. Flake

    • Photograph of William J. Flake

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    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • B&W Photograph of William J. Flake. After Henry Huning purchased Corydon Cooley's Ranch in 1888, he attempted to extend his empire by fencing North and East of the Show Low Valley. In 1901 the railroad contested his right to fence the open land...
    • Photograph of Show Low's Growth Pangs

    • Photograph of Show Low's Growth Pangs

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    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • Before US 60 cut through the heart of Show Low in order to connect Los Angeles, CA with Virginia Beach, VA some time in the mid-1930s, farmers routinely drove their cattle across town to the north pasture every morning and then back again at...
    • Photograph of the Huning Bunkhouse

    • Photograph of the Huning Bunkhouse

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    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • B&W Photograph of Henry Huning's bunkhouse, located on the west side of Show Low Creek, first sheltered the ranch hands of Cooley's Ranch. As the ranch passed from Cooley to Huning, and then from Huning to the Mormon pioneers, Willard and Emma...
    • Photograph of four-room school house built in 1919

    • Photograph of four-room school house built in 1919

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    • 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

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    • 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...
    • Telephone Switchboard

    • Telephone Switchboard

    • Western States Telephone Company

    • T&E for Communication: Telecommunications T & E: Switchboard

    • Switchboard is 56"h x 23 1/2"W with a 37 1/2" deep table. The switchboard operator and-connected incoming calls to switchboard recepticles using corded plugs. Calls could be made to Holbrook, Albuquerque, Greer, Show Low, Whiteriver, Pinetop,...

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