John H. Page & Company, 1880-1981, 1900-1960 [manuscript].

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John H. Page & Company, 1880-1981, 1900-1960 [manuscript].

This collection includes a wide breadth of Arizona land transactions, 1900-1960, among Arizona's major land owners and developers, and their interface with territorial, state and federal government and Indian tribes. It documents the formative period that laid the footprint for Arizona's land tenure and Arizona's tremendous growth and real estate development of the first half of the twentieth century.

2.9 linear ft. (6 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8090702

Arizona State University Libraries

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