Arizona Memory Project

Oral History with Patricia Egan, January 26, 2011
Egan, Patricia
Patricia Egan was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. In 1989 she moved to Arizona to teach at Dilkon Elementary School on the Navajo Reservation. Ms. Egan talks about the cultual differences between herself and her students and how those...

Oral History with Kathy Engle, April 15, 2011
Engle, Kathy
Kathy Engle was a reporter with the "Green Valley News" in Tucson, Arizona from 1981 to 2006. In this interview Ms. Engle talks about her childhood, education, and early career in journalism. She discusses many of the newspapers and journalist in...

Oral History with Martha Gayle, February 23, 2011
Gayle, Martha
Buckeye (Ariz.); Prisoner of War camps; World War Two; Buckeye Union High School District (Maricopa County, Ariz.)
Martha Gayle was born in Phoenix, Arizona, on July 1, 1932. As a child she moved to Buckeye, Arizona with her parents, both of whom were school teachers. After attending Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina and working in California...

Oral History with Pat Call, March 16, 2011
Call, Pat
Cochise County (Ariz.); Cochise County (Ariz.). Board of Supervisors; Cochise County (Ariz.). Dept. of Planning and Zoning; Sierra Vista (Ariz.); Fort Huachuca (Ariz.); Water rights--Arizona; Watershed management; San Pedro River Watershed (Mexico...
Pat Call is the District One Chairman of the Cochise County Board of Supervisors. The Board of Supervisors is the governing and policy-making body of the Cochise County. Mr. Call is a long-time resident of Sierra Vista, who returned to the city in...

Oral History with José Burruel, April 22, 2011
Burruel, José María
José Burruel was born in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1925. He relates what it was like growing up as a Mexican and Native American in a poor single-parent home in Scottsdale and Phoenix. Mr. Burruel talks of the communities and neighborhoods he grew...

Oral History with Frank De la Cruz, February 5, 2011
De la Cruz, Frank
Frank De la Cruz was the librarian at the El Rio Neighborhood Center on the West Side of Tucson, Arizona. In this interview Mr. De la Cruz talks about how the El Rio Neighborhood Center came to be in the 1970s and how it serves the communities of...

An archaeological curation-needs assessment of military installations in selected western states
Felix, Susan S.
Archaeological museums and collections--West (U.S.)--Management; Cultural property--Protection--West (U.S.)
This title contains one or more volumes. Technical report no. 20. Ill. Includes bibliographic references. Volume 1 discusses Arizona military installations including Fort Huachuca, Luke Air Force Base/Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range, Navajo Army...

Arizona Ghost Towns/Mining Operations.
Muench, Josef
Mines and mineral resources--Arizona; Gold mines and mining--Arizona; Copper mines and mining--Arizona; Ghost towns--Arizona; School buildings--Arizona; Hotels--Arizona; Morenci (Ariz.); Goldroad (Ariz.); Miami (Ariz.); Oatman (Ariz.); Bisbee...
This series contains seventy three photographs of ghost towns and mining operations in Arizona. This subseries contains seventy-six photographs of Mesa Verde. Included are images of Goldroad in Mohave County and the Phelps Dodge Copper Reduction...

The Golden West: Articles
Tucson Public Library (Pima County Public Library) and Arizona Historical Society
West (U.S.) – In literature; American Literature – West (U.S.); West (U.S.) – Literary Collections; West (U.S.) Description and travel; Phoenix (Ariz.) – Description and travel American literature -- West (U.S.) West (U.S.) --...
Original source materials reflecting observations about the industrialization and burgeoning growth of Phoenix and their far-reaching consequences for the ways of the Old West. 18 pages.

The Golden West: Essays
Tucson Public Library (Pima County Public Library) and Arizona Historical Society
West (U.S.) – In literature; American Literature – West (U.S.); West (U.S.) – Literary Collections; West (U.S.) Description and travel; Phoenix (Ariz.) – Description and travel
A booklet containing two scholarly essays, “The Golden West,” by Paul A. Carter and “Men of Vision: Phoenix” by G. Wesley Johnson, which examines the effects of the industrialization of the Southwest. New technology (in the form of...

La Memoria Vive (The Memory Lives)
Nelson, John Randall
Art, original, mural, ceramic tile and steel
“La Memoria Vive,” takes its inspiration directly from stories contributed by current and former residents of the community. A couple of the visual elements were inspired by a quote from a poem written by Stella Pope Duarte from an interview...

Excavations at Snaketown, II: Comparisons and theories
Gladwin, Harold S. (Harold Sterling), 1883-1984
Hohokam culture; Excavations (Archaeology)
Analyzes the implications of the excavations at Snaketown for cultural phases and evolution of the Hohokam.

Kivas of the Tusayan ruin Grand Canyon Arizona
Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter), 1904-1992
Archaeological surveying; Indians of North America; Hopi Indians; Kivas; Pueblos; Cliff-dwellings
(11,781kb pdf) Archaeological survey of the ruins near the Grand Canyon- specifically, the ruins of 2 kivas located near the pueblos.

Excavations at Snaketown III: revisions
Gladwin, Harold S. (Harold Sterling), 1883-1983
Ceramics; Indian Pottery; Archaeological surveying; Indians of North America; Antiquities; Pottery, Prehistoric; Mogollon culture; Mimbres culture; Pueblo Indians; Cochise culture
(12,462kb pdf) Paper revising a prior Medallion paper concerning excavations of Snaketown and the presentation of new theories about the "Mogollon" culture based on new analysis and information.

Some Southwestern pottery types, series III
Gladwin, Winifred, 1889-1965
Ceramics; Indian pottery; Indians of North America; Antiquities; Archaeological surveying; Pottery, Prehistoric; Hohokam culture
(13,721kb pdf) Examination of Red-on-Buff pottery to better understand the Hohokam.

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