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    • 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...
    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 6-20-2002 -- The Chediski Fire is Set

    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 6-20-2002 -- The Chediski Fire is Set

    • Buswell, Brian

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • Color photograph of forest wildfire on Mogollon Rim, 6-20-2002 Firefighters focused on the Rodeo Fire as it consumed 5,000 acres per hour and now covered 30,000 acres. But word soon came that another fire had been started that morning by a lost...
    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 7-4-2002 -- Show Low July 4th Parade

    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 7-4-2002 -- Show Low July 4th Parade

    • Buswell, Brian

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • Color photograph of July 4th, 2002 Parade of Fire Fighting equipment being applauded by local celebrants. Show Low turned out to celebrate and show appreciation for the fire crews and others who helped during the fire. But even as thousands waved...
    • 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...
    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 7-3-2002 -- Map

    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 7-3-2002 -- Map

    • Buswell, Brian

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • Color photograph of Rodeo-Chediski Complex Wildfire and surrounding settlements, color-coded to indicate dates areas burned June 18 - 28, 2002. With the help of winds from the west, in ten days, 468,638 acres of heavily overgrown tinder-dry forest...
    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 6-18-2002 Two Fires start near Cibecue

    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 6-18-2002 Two Fires start near Cibecue

    • Buswell, Brian

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • Color Photograph of smoke plume in forested area 6-18-2002 Two man-made fires started June 18, 2002 near Cibecue on the Fort Apache Reservation. The first was doused, but bone-dry fuels caused by extreme drought and gusty winds enabled the...
    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 6-23-2002 -- Deserted Main Street

    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 6-23-2002 -- Deserted Main Street

    • Buswell, Brian

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • Color photograph of the Deuce of Clubs (main street) Show Low, AZ. Sunday, June 23, 2002, the day after the Rodeo and the Chediski wildfires merged, Show Low was deserted by all except reporters, firefighters, police and National Guardsmen. Show...
    • 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 6-22-2002 -- Aircraft Tanker

    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 6-22-2002 -- Aircraft Tanker

    • Buswell, Brian

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • Color photograph of wildfire aircraft tanker #21 dropping fire retardant at Juniper Ridge outside Show Low, AZ June 22, 2002. Aggressive aerial assaults of setting retardant lines accompanied the ground fighting of building backfires and...
    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 6-22-2002 -- Wildfire Fighter Encampment

    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 6-22-2002 -- Wildfire Fighter Encampment

    • Buswell, Brian

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • Color photograph of wildfire fighter encampment on the Show Low School grounds, 500 Old Linden Road, during June 2002 Firefighters from all over the United States find a place to pitch a tent and get some well earned rest during the Rodeo-Chediski...
    • Photograph of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Sydney Woolford

    • Photograph of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Sydney Woolford

    • Unknown

    • 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 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...
    • 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 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 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...
    • 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....

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