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    • 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 Cooley Ranch house

    • Photograph of Cooley Ranch house

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    • 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...
    • 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,...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • Old LDS Church Pulpit

    • Old LDS Church Pulpit

    • Unknown

    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • Old LDS Church Folding Chairs

    • Old LDS Church Folding Chairs

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    • 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...
    • 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...

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