Newcomer photographs - Subject series, 1928-1968.

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Newcomer photographs - Subject series, 1928-1968.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48031872

Summary: Photographs of activities such as agricultural workers in fields and processing crops from field to market, factory workers, airplane pilots, beekeepers, logging and sawmill workers, telephone operators, miners, newspaper press workers, oil well drilling, mail room workers, horse and auto racing, law officers smashing a barrel during prohibition, and movies being filmed. There are images of Navajo miners working at uranium mines in Monument Valley. There are gas and electric lines, sports, ranches, railroads, mines and sheep on the Heber-Reno sheep trail. One image is present of Amelia Earhart's plane while its in the air. One image shows effigy hangings by the Verde Homesteaders, in 1934, of Congresswoman Isabella Greenway, Governor B.B. Moeur, and Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes relating to a land dispute.

6.5 linear ft. (13 boxes)

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 7588142

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937

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King, Isabella Greenway, 1886-1953

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Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)

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Newcomer, E. D., 1896-1973.

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Biographical note: Press photographer, Arizona Republic. From the description of Newcomer photographs - Subject series, 1928-1968. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 48031872 From the description of Newcomer portraits, A-L, 1926-1970 (bulk 1950-1969). (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 47986043 From the description of Newcomer portraits, M-Z, 1926-1970 (bulk 1950-1969). (Arizona Hist...