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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...
    • Oral History with Betty Jo Benton, March 8, 2011

    • Oral History with Betty Jo Benton, March 8, 2011

    • Benton, Betty Jo
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    • Betty Jo Benton spent her early years in Phoenix before moving to California. She relates her mother’s time as a violinist with the predecessor to the Phoenix Symphony. Mrs. Benton moved back to the city in 1949 with her husband, Robert Benton,...
    • 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.
    • Oral History Interview with Maria Socorro Salinas

    • Oral History Interview with Maria Socorro Salinas

    • Salinas, Maria Socorro

    • Mexican Americans; Glendale, AZ; Farming; Japanese Americans; Konishi; Education; Fiesta Patrias; Murphy Park; Catholic Church

    • Maria Socorro Salinas was a Mexican American born in Glendale, Arizona. Her father worked on Konishi’s farm as a foreman. Yutaka Konishi leased land from Louis Sands at 55th Avenue between Orangewood and Northern Avenues. He raised lettuce and...
    • Ellsworth Family History, Part 2

    • Ellsworth Family History, Part 2

    • Ellsworth, Pete

    • Show Low (Ariz.)--History; Cowboys--Arizona--Humor; Arizona Dept. of Transportation Highways Division; Snow--Arizona

    • Part 2: Pete remembers starting out as newly-weds, their first home together near Mormon Lake, adjusting to his bride's cooking, and Betty Jo's first horse riding experiences. They had three sons, buy lost their middle one at age 7 to a malignant...
    • Oral History with Karl Deffenbaugh, February 24, 2011

    • Oral History with Karl Deffenbaugh, February 24, 2011

    • Deffenbaugh, Karl

    • Superior (Ariz.); Mining; Agriculture; Cultural Diversity; Business

    • Karl Deffenbaugh was born and raised in Superior, Arizona, and has lived all of his life in Arizona. After retiring from the Sears Corporation, Mr. Deffenbaugh moved from Phoenix back to Superior. In this interview, Mr. Deffenbaugh tells about...
    • Oral History with William Bond, January 14, 2011

    • Oral History with William Bond, January 14, 2011

    • Bond, William

    • Education; Family and community

    • William Bond was born and raised in New Mexico. He moved to Arizona about 1971 to take a teaching position at Pearce Elementary School in Cochise County. Mr. Bond also taught at Duncan and Saint Johns before going to the University of Arizona for...
    • Foil Family History, Part 1

    • Foil Family History, Part 1

    • Foil, David A. Jr.

    • Oral Histories; Apache County; Navajo County; Biography; McNary, James Graham, b. 1877; McNary, (Ariz.)--History; Timber--Ariz.; Apache Sitgreaves National Forest (Ariz.)

    • Part 1: David A. Foil, Jr. was born in Bogalusa, a sawmill town in Louisiana in 1922. His father didn't work for the timber industry though, but rather for the trains, then a furniture factory. In the midst of the Great Depression when and all...
    • Oral History with Dirk Frauenfelder, Betty Jo Penny, and Caroline Jessen, May 23, 2011

    • Oral History with Dirk Frauenfelder, Betty Jo Penny, and Caroline Jessen, May 23, 2011

    • Frauenfelder, Dick; Penny, Betty Jo; Jessen, Caroline

    • Yuma County (Ariz.); Gadsden (Ariz.); San Luis (Ariz.); Homesteading; Farming; Agricultural laborers--Arizona

    • The Frauenfelder and Lott families settled in Gadsden and southern Yuma County in the early 1900s. The Frauenfelder came in 1920 and the Lotts in 1912. They describe growing up along the border with Mexico, and how they worked in the fields and...
    • Oral History with James Haboush, January 27, 2011

    • Oral History with James Haboush, January 27, 2011

    • Haboush, James

    • Mental Health-Arizona; Phoenix (Ariz.); Photography; Art

    • James C. Haboush is a an artist, a musician, and a writer who came to Phoenix from Los Angeles in 1986. Mr. Haboush has a mental illness and uses his interview to talk about the situation of the homeless and mentally ill in Phoenix, their...
    • "The Traveler" Glendale Community College Literary Magazine, 1978

    • "The Traveler" Glendale Community College Literary Magazine, 1978
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    • Glendale Community College (Maricopa County, Ariz.); College students' writings, American--Arizona--Glendale--Periodicals; Creative writing (Higher education)--Periodicals; Short stories, American--Periodicals; American poetry--20th...

    • The Traveler, Spring, 1978. Editor: Daniel G. Fink. Staff: Kathleen A. Briant; George Daugherty; Joan L. Klein; Kilian Earl Roever; Linda C. Romer; Michael M. Sebring; Mike Souders; Marguerite Heltames. Cover: Jacque Hayes. Advisors: Corad...
    • Perspectives of the Past-Oral history interview with LaVona Evans 2012-01-21

    • Perspectives of the Past-Oral history interview with LaVona Evans 2012-01-21

    • Evans, LaVona, 1912-

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

    • LaVona Evans recounts her life in Southern Arizona. Evans was born in Thatcher, Arizona on February 14, 1912. Evans talks about her childhood in Thatcher and Mesa and her experiences raising a family in Binghampton, a Mormon settlement that has...
    • Ellsworth Family History, Part 3

    • Ellsworth Family History, Part 3

    • Ellsworth, Pete

    • Oral histories; Show Low (Ariz.)--History; Cowboys--Arizona--Humor; Rodeos--Arizona; Bull riding;

    • Part 3: Pete retired from the Arizona Highway Dept. after working there 33 years. Three days later he went to work for Max McKeon at Farm Credit Service counting cattle on ranches they financed. He worked for them for 20 years, mostly with Sam...
    • Oral History Interview with Dirk Frauenfelder, Betty Jo Penny, and Caroline Jessen

    • Oral History Interview with Dirk Frauenfelder, Betty Jo Penny, and Caroline Jessen

    • Frauenfelder, Dirk; Penny, Betty Jo; Jessen, Caroline

    • Yuma County (Ariz.); Gadsden (Ariz.); San Luis (Ariz.); Homesteading; Farming; Agricultural laborers--Arizona

    • The Frauenfelder and Lott families settled in Gadsden and southern Yuma County in the early 1900s. The Frauenfelder came in 1920 and the Lotts in 1912. They describe growing up along the border with Mexico, and how they worked in the fields and...
    • 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...
    • Foil Family History, Part 2

    • Foil Family History, Part 2

    • Foil, David A. Jr.

    • Oral histories; Apache County; Navajo County; Biography; McNary, James Graham, b. 1877; McNary, (Ariz.)--History; Timber--Ariz.;

    • Part 2: David A. Foil, Jr. was inducted into the U.S. Army in Fresno, California because California was where he'd enlisted. He was promptly sent to the salt flats outside Salt Lake City, Utah for basic training. From there he was sent to Lowery...
    • Foil Family History, Part 3

    • Foil Family History, Part 3

    • Foil, David A. Jr.

    • Oral histories; Navajo County; Biography; Show Low (Ariz.); Tourism--Arizona

    • Part 3: David A. Foil continues to disclose the behind-the-scene history of Show Low's incorporation. The 5-man committee appointed by the Navajo County Board of Supervisors took their offices as the new City Council with a Commissioner form of...

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