Morris Goldwater Collection, 1852-1964 ca. 1870-ca. 1930.

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Morris Goldwater Collection, 1852-1964 ca. 1870-ca. 1930.

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The collection is arranged into eight series: Series I: Personal; Series II: Correspondence; Series III: Political; Series IV: Masonic; Series V: Financial; Series VI: Memorabilia; Series VII: Oversized, Financial; and Series VIII: Oversized, General. Files are arranged alphabetically and chronologically within. Original order of this collection is unknown. The arrangement and description of the collection is based upon an aggregation of materials found both within Senator Goldwater's personal family history files and other fragments of the AHF holdings. Series I: Personal includes biographies, records of family history, legal documents including material pertaining to Goldwater's stores, and membership records. Series II: Correspondence contains material of a personal, financial, and business nature. Included is correspondence between Morris and his extended family. The correspondence is arranged alphabetically and organized chronologically within. Series III: Political includes certificates of election, government and legislative documents, and scrapbooks of newsclippings related to Arizona Territorial political activities. Series IV: Masonic includes records, correspondence, and memorabilia of the many Masonic organizations Morris was a part of. This series is organized by Masonic lodge or chapter. Series V: Financial includes invoice books, small ledgers, financial statements, stock certificates, and tax records. Series VI: Memorabilia includes announcements, invitations, newsclippings, scrapbooks, and a Goldwater bibliography compiled by the staff of the Arizona Historical Foundation during the 1960s in the form of a small card catalog. Series VII: Oversized, Financial includes 50 large financial ledgers documenting 19th and 20th century Goldwater enterprises. A number of books include indexes, listing a veritable Who's Who in Territorial Arizona. Clients range from clergy and religious orders to the U.S. Army, miners, ranchers, and tribal nations. Records provide insight into the business relationships, buying habits, and merchandizing practices of the Old West. Some ledgers were originally bound in leather, some found without covers. Bindings were removed due to extensive water damage, dry rot, and insect infestation. Two books were copied on acid-free paper due to extensive mold damage. Some pages are illegible, torn or missing. Series VIII: Oversized, General includes an oversized scrapbook of newsclippings and memorabilia, Goldwater store items, a memorial scrapbook of Morris Goldwater compiled by his nephew Senator Barry M. Goldwater, photographs, certificates, and newspapers.

41 linear feet (49 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6860534

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Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998

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Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was an American politician, businessman, and author who was a five-term Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–1987) and the Republican Party nominee for president of the United States in 1964. Despite his loss of the 1964 presidential election in a landslide, Goldwater is the politician most often credited with having sparked the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s. He also had a substantial impact on the...

Arizona Historical Foundation

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This collection is comprised of oral histories from a variety or unrelated sources, the majority resulting from three projects. These oral histories are not part of an existing manuscript collection and are arranged to allow for further additions. The Arizona Way project, created in 1977 as part of a project that examined the traditional values of Arizona, focused on the Anglo, Hispanic and Native American cultures through oral histories. It was funded by a grant from the Arizona Humanities Coun...

Goldwater, Joseph.

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Goldwater, Michael.

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Goldwater family.

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Goldwater, Morris, 1852-1939

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Morris Goldwater, esteemed uncle of Senator Barry M. Goldwater, was born to Michel and Sarah in London, England in 1852. At the age of two, along with his mother, older sister Carolyn (b. 1850), and aunt, Morris came to San Francisco, California via the Isthmus of Nicaragua. His childhood was spent with his family in California where he studied and apprenticed to become a merchant. In 1867 Morris came to Arizona in the footsteps of his father Big Mike. He had aspirations to become a merchant lik...