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    • 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 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...
    • 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 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 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...
    • Photograph of Show Low's Growth Pangs

    • Photograph of Show Low's Growth Pangs

    • Unknown

    • 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

    • Unknown

    • 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 The Old LDS Church

    • Photograph of The Old LDS Church

    • Unknown

    • 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 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...
    • 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 the Stratton Trading Post

    • Photograph of the Stratton Trading Post

    • Unknown

    • 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

    • Unknown

    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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,...
    • 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...
    • 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 6-20-2002 -- 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 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...
    • 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...

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