Fly photograph collection, ca. 1881-1895.

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Fly photograph collection, ca. 1881-1895.

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Photographs including portraits, towns, and activities in southeastern Arizona and Mexico, taken mostly in the 1890s. There are many studio portraits of Cochise County residents taken in the 1890s, and views of Bisbee, Charleston, Tombstone, Apache Indians at San Carlos Indian Reservation. There is one photograph of C.S. Fly, 1881, on horseback leading a Grand Army of the Republic procession in honor of the death of President James Garfield. Individual portraits include Isaac Clanton, Eddie Foy, Viola Howell Slaughter, George W. Parsons, C.D. Reppy, and Ed Schieffelin. The collection also contains photocopies of images taken by Fly that are in other AHS photograph files.

.5 linear ft. (2 boxes)

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 7571142

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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Slaughter, Cora Viola Howell, 1850-1933

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Schieffelin, Edward L.

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Fly, Mary E.

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Clanton, Joseph Isaac, 1847-1887

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Parsons, George Whitwell, 1850-1933

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Parsons was born in Washington, DC, Aug. 26, 1850; graduated Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, NY; moved to CA, 1876 and worked for several years at National Bank & Trust Co. San Francisco; moved to Tombstone, AZ, 1880, and was involved in mining; relocated to Los Angeles, CA, 1887 and was charter member Chamber of Commerce serving as director and chairman for Committee on Mines and Mining, and Transportation Committee; represented CA at Omaha Exposition; was identified with mining industry an...

Reppy, C. D. (Charles Douglas), 1846-1918

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San Carlos Indian Reservation (Ariz.)

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Foy, Eddie, 1856-1928

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Fly, C. S. (Camillus Sidney), 1849-1901

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C.S. Fly (1849-1901) was a photographer in the American West. From the description of C.S. Fly photographs of Geronimo, circa 1880s-1890s. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 228078986 Photographer, arrived in Tombstone, Arizona in 1879 and established a photographic studio, Fly's Photography Gallery, on Fremont Street. From the description of Fly photograph collection, ca. 1881-1895. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat r...

Grand Army of the Republic

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Founded in 1866, in Decatur, Ill. From the description of Grand Army of the Republic scrapbooks, 1913. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 276172404 The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of Civil War Union military veterans, formed in Decatur, Illinois in 1866. The GAR became one of the first advocacy groups in American politics, lobbying for black veterans, pensions, and supporting Republican candidates. The GAR waned during the 1870s as the ...