Broadsides collection, 1793-

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Broadsides collection, 1793-

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49059190

Summary: Collection of broadsides, many of them oversize, consisting of posters, business cards, brochures, announcements, bumper stickers, fliers and playbills. The bulk of the material dates from World Wars I and II including posters for war bond sales, recruiting, Red Cross, anti-Japanese propaganda, patriotism and victory. Other highlights include Southern Pacific Railroad posters from the 1950s including one highlighting Apache Trail; Tucson Philharmonic Club 1889 regulations; one 1968 poster advertising a Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Poneys concert; an American Women's Voluntary Services poster, ca. 1945; and 1970s psychedelic posters advertising Valley National Bank. There are many campaign advertisements for Arizona politicians at all levels including George W.P. Hunt, B.B. Moeur, Nellie T. Bush, Olive G. Failor, Howard Pyle, Carl Hayden, Stewart Udall, Sam Goddard, Lew Murphy, and Morris Udall. There are also house rules for Geronimo Hotel, programs for Levin's Park, and wanted posters. Artists represented in the collection include Norman Rockwell, Ben Shahn, James Montgomery Flagg, Lew Davis, and Charles Dana Gibson.

55.5 linear ft. (17 boxes and drawers)

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 7602387

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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American Women's Voluntary Services

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Tucson Philharmonic Club

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American National Red Cross

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American charitable organization. From the description of American National Red Cross records, 1906-1995. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867267 Historical Note The American Red Cross is a humanitarian organization led by volunteers and guided by its Congressional Charter and the Fundamental Principals of the International Red Cross Movement. The Federal Charter states it is a nonprofit, tax-exempt, charitable organizat...

Murphy, Lewis

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Hunt, George W. P. (George Wylie Paul), 1859-1934

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Arizona politician. President of the Arizona Constitutional Convention, 1910; Governor of Arizona, 1912-1919, 1923-1929, and 1931-1933. From the description of Scrapbooks, 1910-1932. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 28404463 Arizona governor and statesman. From the description of The George W.P. Hunt collection, 1709-1955, 1885-1932. (Scottsdale Public Library). WorldCat record id: 22105821 George W. P. Hunt was born in Huntsvill...

Geronimo Hotel (Tucson, Ariz.)

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Goddard, Samuel P., 1919-2006

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Attorney, public servant and former Democratic governor of Arizona. From the description of Samuel Goddard papers, 1952-1919. (Scottsdale Public Library). WorldCat record id: 51673191 Attorney and public servant Samuel Pearson Goddard Jr. was born in Clayton, Missouri on 8 August 1919. He received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1941 and enlisted as a Private in the Army Air Forces shortly afterward. Between 1941 and 1946, Goddard served as an o...

Moeur, Benjamin

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Udall, Stewart L.

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U.S. secretary of the interior, lawyer, and author. Born 1920. From the description of Stewart L. Udall papers, 1961-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981747 Lawyer; Democratic U.S. Representative from Arizona, 1955-1960; U.S. Secretary of the Interior, 1961-1968. From the description of Papers, 1950-[ongoing] (bulk 1950-1977). (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 28318942 Stewart L. Udall is a former politician and government official from ...

Southern Pacific railroad company

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The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. It was the first railroad to connect Los Angeles to the rest of California and its lines extended as far as New Orleans. In 1901, the Union Pacific Railroad bought 38% of Southern Pacific stock and took control of the company, but the Union Pacific was ultimately forced to divest these shares in 1912 by the U.S. Supreme...

Failor, Olive Gilmor, 1873-1936

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Bush, Nellie, 1888-1963

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Hayden, Carl Trumbull, 1877-1972

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Arizona representative and senator to the United States Congress from 1911-1970. From the description of Carl T. Hayden papers, 1851-1972 (bulk 1940-1968). (Scottsdale Public Library). WorldCat record id: 34298637 Biographical note: Legislator; Carl Hayden was born in Tempe, Arizona in 1877, and held various elective offices before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1912, then the U.S. Senate in 1927. He represented Arizona until his retirement in 1969. ...

Pyle, Howard, 1906-1987

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Governor of Arizona, 1950-1954. From the description of Howard Pyle photograph collection, 1883-1987. (Scottsdale Public Library). WorldCat record id: 53073146 Government executives. From the description of Reminiscences of Howard Pyle and Charles Masterson : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122619735 9th governor of Arizona, president of the National Safety Council, 1959-1973, chairman of the OSHA Na...