Read-Strauss family photographs, 1861-1942 (bulk 1880-1920).

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Read-Strauss family photographs, 1861-1942 (bulk 1880-1920).

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Family photographs of the Read and Strauss families in Tucson and Los Angeles. The collection is chiefly portraits of family members taken by various photographic studios, but also includes photographs of early Tucson, San Xavier Mission, and Hopi, Tohono O'odham, and Apache Indians. A series of photographs by C.S. Fly document the scouts and cavalry soldiers at the John Slaughter ranch, Guadalupe Canyon, and at Geronimo's camp. A photograph of Gertrude Strauss in the 1880s was taken as an advertisement for Pierce Ford Stoves and she has cutlery attached to her dress. There are photographs of Marcus A. Smith, Charles Velasco, and William S. Read as well as a U of A dormitory room (ca. 1898), a Chinese cook named Jimmy, Congress Street School (1884), Safford School students (1888), a large team of ore wagons, an image of the Arizona Copper Company in Clifton, and the Tucson Volunteer Fire Dept.(1892). A group of stereocards are present of the New York Eastman Estate. Photographers represented include Buehman Studios, Ben Wittick and C.S. Fly.

1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes)

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 7538028

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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