Philip A. Bailey Papers 1842-1965 1906-1948

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Philip A. Bailey Papers 1842-1965 1906-1948

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The Philip A. Bailey Papers contain correspondence, notebooks, biographical and genealogical material, manuscript and typescript compositions, and clippings files. Although the collection ranges from 1842 to 1965, the bulk of the material covers Bailey's research and writing on lost mines in Arizona and California from 1906 to 1948.

17 Boxes; (8.0 Linear Feet)

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Arizona State University Libraries Arizona Collection

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Bailey, Philip A., 1885-1970

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Philip Armine Bailey was born at Royal Oak, Michigan on September 16, 1885. He was the son of Myron Asher and Bertha Sofia Brand Bailey. Philip commenced his professional and literary life at Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1906 when he joined the Santa Fe Railroad as a shop and materials inspector and began collecting lost mine tales from local prospectors. He married Helen Elizabeth Pettit in 1909. Their daughter, Dorothy Helen, was born on July 9, 1910. The Baileys moved t...