Western Ways photograph collection, ca. 1950-965.

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Western Ways photograph collection, ca. 1950-965.

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Summary: People include Roger Blythe (a graphic designer at work), Andrew E. Douglass (in his tree lab), the Knauff family (creating desert dioramas), and the Hardgrave family (irrigation project on the Verde River at Cottonwood, Arizona). Subjects include a Tucson High School's newspaper office, ; Tucson guest ranches showing guests, arrivals at the airport, swimming pools and swimmers; a few birds-eye-views of Tucson including Stone Avenue, a view towards the Catalina Mountains, and south of Downtown. There are also images of Hopi villages, drummer, potter, baskets and ruins. Other images show the Phelps Dodge copper mines at Morenci, a cactus disease project involving removing and cutting up Saguaros, de-cocooning B-29 airplanes; and Nogales, Sonora parades, markets, and the Cavern Cafe.

2 linear ft. (2 boxes)

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 7636148

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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Blythe, Roger

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Hargrave family

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Cavern Cafe (Nogales, Ariz.)

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Tucson High School (Ariz.)

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Knauff family

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Western Ways Feature Service.

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Biographical note: Association of writers and photographers, under the direction of president Charles W. Herbert and his wife, Lucille. Formed to produce written and photographic coverage of 'lifestyle, human-interest' events, places, and personalities chiefly in the western United States for sale to publications, photographic and advertising agencies, and the private sector. From the description of Western Ways photograph collection, ca. 1950-965. (Arizona Historical Society, Southe...

Phelps Dodge Corporation

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Since its founding as a trading company in 1834 by Anson Greene Phelps (1781-1853), the Phelps Dodge & Co. (renamed the Phelps Dodge Corporation after the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Co. aquired its assets in 1917) provided many of the raw materials that fueled America's early industrial expansion and helped build frontier communities of the American West. In 1881, the Phelps Dodge Corporation invested in copper mining in Arizona and continues to mine those claims today. Fro...

Douglass, A. E. (Andrew Ellicott), 1867-1962

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American astronomer and educator, founder of the science of dendrochronology. From the description of Papers, 1792-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155003574 From the description of Papers, 1956-1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79655085 American astronomer and educator, founder of the science of dendrochronology. Associated with the Harvard College Observatory, 1889- 1894, and its expedition to Peru; as well as the Lowell Observatories in Flagstaff, Arizona,...