Ivancovich papers, 1935-1975 (bulk 1950-1965).

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Ivancovich papers, 1935-1975 (bulk 1950-1965).

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Correspondence, publications, and photographs relating to Ivancovich's interests in the history of the Pimeria Alta region, including Father Kino, santos, and the San Xavier Mission restoration of the 1950s. Noted correspondents include E. Boyd, Henry Dobyns, Bonaventure Oblasser, Paul Ezell and Victor Stoner. Correspondence with E. Boyd includes photographs of santos by George Lopez. There are also photographs of Victor Stoner conducting mass at Awatovi. Correspondence and a satirical history of San Xavier Mission by Bonaventure Oblasser are also present. Materials relating to commissioning a Kino portrait and statue, as well as correspondence and photographs about the excavation of Kino's burial site at Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico are present. There are materials about the restoration of San Xavier Mission in the 1950s as well as records of the Tucson Community Group concerning preservation concerns at the Mission. A typescript copy of "A History of the Legal Status of Land and Land Use on the San Xavier Indian reservation," by Bernard L. Fontana is present. There are also photographs of Sonoran Missions visited by Ivancovich in the 1950s.

6 linear ft. (9 boxes)

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 7432533

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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Ivancovich, Jane Harrison, 1915-1991.

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Philanthropist and supporter of local culture and history; Ivancovich was active with the Arizona Historical Society overseeing several publications about the Spanish colonization of the Pimeria Alta region. She was involved in the excavation of Kino's burial site, the 1950s restoration of San Xavier Mission, and established the Southwestern Foundation for Education and Historic Preservation. From the description of Ivancovich papers, 1935-1975 (bulk 1950-1965). (Arizona Historical S...

Fontana, Bernard L.

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Ethnologist and author. From the description of Oral history interview, 1980 Aug. 29 [sound recording]. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 37495937 Bernard (Bunny) Lee Fontana was a prominent anthropologist based out of the University of Arizona. He participated in many activities around Sonora and southern Arizona and was also a prolific author who preferred to be known as Bunny. Bunny Fontana was born Janua...

Van Ryder, Jack (Jackson), 1899-1967.

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Western artist, rodeo cowboy, rancher and political activist, Jack Van Ryder was born in Continental, Ariz. in 1899 and lived in Arizona at various times during his life. He wrote "Ryding on the Range", a popular column in the Brewery Gulch Gazette, and wrote columns in the Tucson Times, a weekly paper he purchased in 1945. From the description of Van Ryder papers, 1927-1969. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 41415801 ...

Mission San Xavier del Bac (Tucson, Ariz.)

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SS. Peter and Paul Church (Tucson, Ariz.)

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Kino, Eusebio Francisco, 1644-1711

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Jesuit missionary assigned in 1687 to the Pimeria Alta, Viceroyalty of Mexico. From the description of Report of an exploration, written at Mission Dolores, Pimeria Alta, 1699. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 31688441 Eusebio Francisco Kino (1644-1711), Jesuit missionary and explorer in Mexico and the American Southwest, became a priest at the age of twenty-one and in 1681 went to Mexico. He led an unsuccessful attempt to settle Lower California in 1683 and was ...

Lopez, George A.

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Boyd, E. (Elizabeth), 1903-1974

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Museum curator (Santa Fe, N.M.). From the description of E. Boyd memoirs, 1963 November 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502604 E. Boyd helped to establish the Rio Grande Painters (1933-1936) and the Spanish Colonial Arts Society. She worked as a researcher and artist for the W.P.A (Works Progress Administration) Spanish Colonial Design Portfolio and in 1951 became curator of the Spanish Colonial Art Department of the Museum of New Mexico. From the descriptio...

Burrus, Ernest J. 1907-

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Biographical note: Editor, archivist, historian and Jesuit priest; Ernest Burrus was author or editor of 50 books and many articles. From the description of Kino and the cartography of northwestern New Spain (manuscript), ca. 1965-1965. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 635523756 ...

Dobyns, Henry F.

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Dr. Henry Dobyns joined the Cornell Peru Project as its Research Coordinator in 1960, after receiving his Ph.D. from Cornell. In 1962, he returned to campus to participate in training Peace Corps volunteers to work in Peru. The Peace Corps also contracted with Cornell to have the CPP advise Peace Corps officials in Lima and to evaluate their impact on the communities. He was the Coordinator of the Comparative Studies of Cultural Change program and the Associate Director of the Cornell Peru Proje...

Ezell, Paul H. (Paul Howard), 1913-1988

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American author. From the description of Fra Diego Bringas : a forgotten cartographer of Sonora, 1956. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122553759 Anthropologist and educator; expert witness for the Pima and Maricopa Indians on their land and water claims against the U.S. government. From the description of Paul Howard Ezell papers, 1939-1987. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 28262961 Paul Howard Ezell was born 12 August 1913 on a h...

Tucson Community Group (Ariz.)

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Stoner, Victor, 1893-1957

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