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    • Executive order No. 66-1: Arizona Council on the Arts and Humanities

    • Executive order No. 66-1: Arizona Council on the Arts and Humanities

    • Goddard Jr., Samuel Pearson

    • Executive orders--Arizona; Performing arts--Arizona; Humanities--Arizona; Arts--Arizona; Arts and society--Arizona; Art appreciation; Public art--Arizona; Arts audiences--Arizona; Art and state--Arizona; Cultural property--Arizona; Centers for the...

    • [Establishing the] Arizona Council on the Arts and Humanities [to avail itself of funds available from the Federal Government to establish a State Arts Council to promote and support artistic and cultural activities and to submit an annual report...
    • Executive order No. 66-8: Arizona Commission on the Arts and Humanities

    • Executive order No. 66-8: Arizona Commission on the Arts and Humanities

    • Goddard Jr., Samuel Pearson

    • Executive orders--Arizona; Arizona Commission on the Arts & Humanities; Performing arts--Arizona; Humanities--Arizona; Arts--Arizona; Arts and society--Arizona; Art appreciation; Public art--Arizona; Arts audiences--Arizona; Art and...

    • [Renaming the Arizona Council on Arts and Humanities as the] Arizona Commission on the Arts and Humanities
    • Virginia Finney Lowdermilk

    • Virginia Finney Lowdermilk

    • Edward Kemp

    • Women -- History -- Arizona; Dude Ranch -- Arizona; Women in Tourism -- Arizona

    • Known as the "Flower of the Frontier," Virginia Lowdermilk was born and raised in the Southwest and pursued ranch life for many years in Arizona before developing a business in tourism. With her husband Romaine she owned and operated the Soda...
    • Adele Slivers and Ruth Henderson

    • Adele Slivers and Ruth Henderson

    • Unknown

    • Women -- History -- Arizona; Nursing -- Arizona; Indians of North American -- Arizona

    • Adele Slivers and Ruth Henderson are commemorated here as the first graduates from the Sage Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Ganado, Arizona on November 29, 1933. At the time it served as the only accredited School of Nursing for Native...
    • Bessie Ethel Hatz Bork (1879-1935)

    • Bessie Ethel Hatz Bork (1879-1935)

    • Unknown

    • Women -- History -- Arizona; Teachers -- Arizona; Librarians -- Arizona

    • Daughter of Katherine and Daniel Hatz, Bessie was one of the first to graduate from high school in Prescott, and was reputed to be the most beautiful girl in town. She studied at San Diego Normal School and then returned to Arizona to teach at...
    • Anna R. Stewart (1876-1959)

    • Anna R. Stewart (1876-1959)

    • Unknown

    • Women -- History -- Arizona; Teachers -- Arizona; Home Economics -- Study and Teaching -- Arizona

    • Teaching was one of the generally accepted occupations for women, and Anna Stewart taught the teachers. Educated at Tempe Normal School (now Arizona State University), the University of California, and Bradley Polytechnic Institute, she returned to...
    • Francisca Stevens (1855 ca.-1882)

    • Francisca Stevens (1855 ca.-1882)

    • Unknown

    • Women -- History -- Arizona; Apache Indians -- History -- Arizona

    • Several sources indicate that Francisca was the daughter of Es-Kel-Thes-e-la, hereditary Chief of the Coyotero Band of Apache Indians. It is said that her husband, George Stevens, married her for the protection it gave him during his travels in...
    • Lottie Whiteside

    • Lottie Whiteside

    • Unknown

    • Women -- History -- Arizona; Women in Medicine -- Arizona

    • During Arizona's territorial period many women were recognized as "doctors." One such woman was Lottie Whiteside. Dr. Whiteside of Wickenburg did not possess a professional degree; however, she skillfully cared for the sick. Like many of the women...
    • Helen Hamlin Allen (1884-1963)

    • Helen Hamlin Allen (1884-1963)

    • Unknown

    • Women -- History -- Arizona; Barbers -- Arizona

    • Born in Phoenix, Mary Helen Hamlin dropped her first name sometime after she married James H. Allen in 1910. A stockowner, avid theatergoer, and Republican representative to the Election Board, she is chiefly known for her 35 years as a barber at...
    • Clara Cornblith Samuels (1887-1970)

    • Clara Cornblith Samuels (1887-1970)

    • Unknown

    • Women -- History -- Arizona; Grocery Trade -- Arizona

    • Born in Poland, Clara immigrated to the United States via Mexico, acquiring fluency in the Russian, Polish, Spanish, Yiddish and English languages. She married Samuel Samuels in El Paso, Texas in 1910 and moved to Arizona two years later. An...
    • Berta Coveney

    • Berta Coveney

    • Unknown

    • Women -- History -- Arizona

    • This photograph, while undated, was probably taken during the 1880's. Though Ms. Coveney's personal history is unknown, her father was James M. Cotton, a businessman in Phoenix during the last half of the 19th century. He and George E. Mowry were...
    • Adeline Bobblett Hall (1844-1912)

    • Adeline Bobblett Hall (1844-1912)

    • Unknown

    • Women -- History -- Arizona

    • Adeline Bobblett was born in Dayton, Ohio on December 23, 1844. At 22 she moved to Kansas to teach school in the Solomon Valley. There she met James Hall, a rough-talking, tobacco-chewing buffalo hunter and frontiersman, whom she soon married. With...
    • All Arabian Horse Show at Paradise Park.

    • All Arabian Horse Show at Paradise Park.

    • Unknown

    • Scottsdale (Ariz.) - History; Scottsdale Historical Society - History; Horse shows - Arizona -Scottsdale; Arabian horse;

    • The Arabian Horse Association of Arizona held its first annual show at the Biltmore Resort in 1955, then moved the show to Scottsdale in 1956, where it has been held every winter since then. From 1956 to 1968 the show was held at Paradise Park, an...
    • Final sunset report Arizona Historical Society

    • Final sunset report Arizona Historical Society

    • Senate Government Committee & House Government Operations Committee

    • Arizona Historical Society--Auditing; Sunset reviews of government programs--Arizona; History--Societies, etc--Arizona; Historical museums--Arizona

    • 33 pages (PDF version). File size: 1683 KB
    • Sidney B. Brinckerhoff, Executive Director, Arizona Historical Society

    • Sidney B. Brinckerhoff, Executive Director, Arizona Historical Society

    • Corbin, Bob

    • Attorney General Opinions--Arizona

    • Opinion No. 83-031 (R82-147). 2 pages (PDF version) file size: 95.81 KB. Letter to Sidney B. Brinckerhoff, Executive Director, Arizona Historical Society, answering numerous questions regarding the ownership of various artifacts in the custody of...
    • Sidney B. Brinckerhoff, Executive Secretary, Arizona Historical Society

    • Sidney B. Brinckerhoff, Executive Secretary, Arizona Historical Society

    • Corbin, Bob

    • Attorney General Opinions--Arizona

    • Opinion No. 84-181 (R84-043) 2 pages (PDF version) file size: 77.61 KB. Letter to Sidney B. Brinckerhoff, Executive Secretary, Arizona Historical Society, answering questions regarding the authority of the society to lease the Old Adobe-Charles O....
    • Arizona Historical Society

    • Arizona Historical Society

    • Nelson, Gary K.

    • Attorney General Opinions--Arizona

    • Letter Opinion No. 74-6-L (R-11). 2 pages (PDF version) file size: 59.82 KB. Letter to the Arizona Historical Society, stating that the Arizona Historical Society could sell copies of historical photographs to the public.

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