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Show Low Historical Society Collection Highlights
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    • 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...
    • 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 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...
    • Wood Stove

    • Wood Stove

    • Guaranteed Ranges

    • T&E for Materials: Food Processing T&E: Stove, Wood

    • Black cast iron kitchen wood-burning cook stove with stovepipe, date of manufacture unknown. Don and Angela Borrego came from Colorado to the White Mountains during the 1950's. She wanted a wood stove for their summer kitchen outside of their...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • Photograph of Goldwater Hospital Dedication

    • Photograph of Goldwater Hospital Dedication

    • Marks, Kenneth and Susan

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • B/W Photograph of Josephine Goldwater Hospital Dedication Ceremony on Saturday, April 22, 1961 at Show Low, AZ. Shown are Eric H. Marks, Lloyd Rhoton, Bruce Reidhead (Mayor of Show Low), Hon. Barry Goldwater (U.S. Senator), Hon. Paul Fannin...
    • 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 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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,...
    • 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...
    • 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....
    • 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 -- 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 -- 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...

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