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    • Perspectives of the Past-Oral history interview with Oscar Montano 2011-10-10

    • Perspectives of the Past-Oral history interview with Oscar Montano 2011-10-10

    • Montano, Oscar, 1911-

    • Centenarians--United States--Interviews. Oral history--Arizona. Tucson (Ariz.)--History--Anecdotes. Yuma (Ariz.)--History.

    • Oscar Montano describes his family's immigration from Ireland to the mountains of Northern Mexico and eventually settling in Tucson, Arizona. Montano discuses his career with Levy's department store, starting as a delivery boy, salesman and...
    • Dr. Robert Ashe

    • Dr. Robert Ashe

    • Ashe, Dr. Robert

    • Glendale (Ariz) -- Newspaper; Glendale, AZ; Glendale (Ariz) --Social life and customs; Glendale (Ariz) -- Glendale Union High School

    • In the 1940s, Dr. Robert Ashe was the former Superintendent of Glendale and Peoria High School Districts, during a period of great growth. He was instrumental in transforming Glendale School District from a small farming town school district, to a...
    • Survey of Arizonans' attitudes about public libraries: fall 2006

    • Survey of Arizonans' attitudes about public libraries: fall 2006

    • Northern Arizona University. Social Research Laboratory.

    • Library users--Arizona-- Interviews; Libraries--User satisfaction--Arizona; Public libraries--Arizona;

    • 90 pages (PDF version). File size: 860.45 KB. "February 2007."--Cover. "Arizona public library survey 2006"--Running title. Includes charts and statistics.
      Frederic I. Solop, Ph.D., Director, Principal Investigator; Kristi K. Hagen, M.A.,...
    • Nelson Mitchell, Jr. Video Oral History Interview

    • Nelson Mitchell, Jr. Video Oral History Interview

    • Mitchell, Nelson, Jr.

    • Luke AFB; WWII; Navy; African American Armed Forces; Pearl Harbor; Phoenix, AZ

    • Video oral history interview with Nelson Mitchell, Jr. where he discusses his career in the US Navy during WWII.
    • Porter Family History, Part 2

    • Porter Family History, Part 2

    • Porter, David C.

    • Oral histories; Navajo County; Biography; Mail carriers; Masonic Lodge; Shriners; Show Low (Ariz.);

    • Part 2: David C. Porter had a busy civic life as well. He joined the Masons in Show Low shortly after his father died, having had a Masonic funeral. He served as secretary for 15 years and was Grand Master in 1990. And then he became a...
    • Perspectives of the Past-Oral history interview with Lucile Porter 2011-07-05

    • Perspectives of the Past-Oral history interview with Lucile Porter 2011-07-05

    • Porter, Lucile, 1913-

    • Centenarians--United States--Interviews. Oral history--Arizona. Tucson (Ariz.)--History--Anecdotes. Volunteer workers in social service--Arizona.

    • Lucille Porter recounts her life in Tucson, Arizona beginning with her relocation in 1966. Her experiences in Tucson include being a schoolteacher at the Veterans Affairs (VA), as well as being a student at the Southern Arizona Association for the...
    • Arnold Ong Oral History Interview

    • Arnold Ong Oral History Interview

    • Ong, Arnold

    • Glendale, AZ; Chinese Americans; Boy Scouts; Gene's Market; WWII

    • Arnold Ong was born in China, he immigrated with his family to the United States in 1934. His father had immigrated earlier to establish himself, he began running a grocery business in Phoenix, Arizona. His family bought two lots of land in...
    • Berta Williams Interview Transcsript Part Two.

    • Berta Williams Interview Transcsript Part Two.

    • Berta Williams and Charlotte Cushman.

    • Postmasters--1920-1930; Women postal service employees--Arizona; Post office buildings--Arizona; Ranch life--Arizona--Pima

    • Transcsript of interview with Berta Williams, daughter of Rosa Ronquillo Rhodes on September 4, 2009. Berta recounts stories about her mother, the Post Office, and growing up in Redington, Arizona.
    • Jeanne Malloque Oral History Interview

    • Jeanne Malloque Oral History Interview

    • Malloque, Jeanne (Ipharr)

    • Glendale, AZ; Basque; Sheepherding; Flagstaff, AZ; Discrimination; Glendale Union High School

    • Jeanne Malloque was born in Idaho, in May of 1921. She and her family moved to Phoenix as a means to alleviate her brother’s asthma symptoms. Settling in Glendale in 1928. Her father was born in the French Pyrenees Mountains – Basque Country....
    • Oral History with Jose Burruel, April 22, 2011

    • Oral History with Jose Burruel, April 22, 2011

    • Burruel, Jose
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    • Jose Burruel was born in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1925. He relates what it was like growing up as a Mexican-American in a poor single-parent home in Scottsdale and Phoenix. Mr. Burruel talks of the communities and neighborhoods he grew up in and of...
    • JY "EC" Otondo Oral History Interview

    • JY "EC" Otondo Oral History Interview

    • Otondo, JY "EC"

    • Glendale, AZ: Arizona Communities; Basque Community; Los Angeles, CA; Great Depression; Sheep Ranching;

    • “EC” Otondo was part of one of the first, if not the first sheep families to live in Arizona. He remembers herding his sheep down the trail from northern Arizona to Gilbert. Moving along the San Francisco Peaks into the valley. During this...
    • John Coury Oral History Interview

    • John Coury Oral History Interview

    • Coury, John

    • Glendale, AZ; Phoenix, AZ; Coury's Market; Grocery Business; Valley National Bank; Labanese-American Community; WWII

    • John, a Syrian [Lebanese] immigrant whose family fled Syria [Lebanon] to escape the Turkish War and persecution of Christians, first settled in Ray, Arizona around 1910 and later moved to Glendale. He graduated from University of Arizona in May...

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