The Arizona Women's Heritage Project was sponsored by Arizona State University's Women's Studies Program, funded by the Arizona Humanities Council, and directed by Mary A. Rothschild and Linda L. Salmon. Its interviewers, including Rosemary Diaz, Pamela Hronek, Maria Hernandez, Deborah Peska, and Linda Salmon, conducted interviews in 1981 with women born before 1906 who had lived most of their adult lives in Arizona in order to gather information regarding the role of women in the state's history, focusing on growing up in Arizona, marriage and family, community building, and work for pay. The interviewees are representative of typical citizens rather than prominent community leaders and come from the city of Phoenix, the rural areas of the Salt River Valley, and the mining towns of Globe and Miami.
From the guide to the Arizona Women's Heritage Collection Photographs, circa 1900-1966, 1981-1982, (Arizona State University Libraries Arizona Collection)
