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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...
    • 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 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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

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