Show Low Historical Society Collection Highlights

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- 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 Corydon Cooley's Gravesite
- Duvall, John D.
- Communication Artifact: Ceremonial Artifact: Tombstone
- Bronze plaque set in concrete tombstone on the gravesite of Corydon E. Cooley at Fort Apache Army Cemetery in Whiteriver, White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation. The government grave marker is incorrect. The actual date of Cooley's death was...
- 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...
- 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...
- Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 6-25-2002 -- President George W. Bush and Governor Jane Dee Hull Tour and Declare a National Disaster
- Buswell, Brian
- Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic
- Color photograph of President George W. Bush, Governor Jane Dee Hull, Larry Humphreys, the head of Type 1 Firefighting Team and a unknown firefighter Tuesday, June 25, 2002. President Bush and Arizona Governor Hall visit Springerville-Eager, AZ ...
- 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...
- Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 6-30-2002 -- Forest Service spokesman Jim Paxon Holds Community Together
- Buswell, Brian
- Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic
- Color photograph of Jim Paxon speaking from a podium with the American flag as background was taken approx. 6-30-2002 in Show Low, AZ. Jim Paxon, Forest Service spokesman, quickly achieved folk helo status for his plain-spoken approach to...
- 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...
- 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...
- Photograph of Cooley Ranch house
- Unknown
- 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...
- 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 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...
- 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...