Jacome's Department Store records, 1901-1980.

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Jacome's Department Store records, 1901-1980.

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Records, 1901-1980. Collection consists of the records of Jacome's Department Store, a family-owned business in operation in Tucson, Arizona from 1896 to 1980. The collection contains the papers of company founder Carlos C. Jacome and the papers of his son, long-time company president Alex G. Jacome. A portion of Alex G. Jacome's papers includes personal correspondence with notable politicians including Senators Barry Goldwater and Dennis DeConcini, and Congressmen Morris and Stewart Udall. The collection also includes material relating to company history, including photocopies of news clippings (of note, there is a brief 1950 Time magazine article detailing the building of the new Stone and Pennington store in Tucson); business correspondence; and accounting and finance records. The accounting and finance records, mainly in the form of business ledgers from 1903 to 1973, make up the bulk of the collection. Additionally, the collection includes material related to the Hispanic fraternal benefit society Alianza Hispano-Americana; photographs, including images of Jacome family members, La Bonanza General Store (interior and exterior), and Jacome's Department Store (interior and exterior); real estate documents (legal documents, plans, and blueprints); and scrapbooks (the scrapbooks mainly contain photographs, news clippings, and store advertisements). Several items in the collection are in Spanish- these items consist mostly of correspondence or news clippings.

25 linear ft. (about 17,000 items).

University of Arizona Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8308909

University of Arizona Libraries

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Jacome's Department Store

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Jacome's Department Store began in 1896 as La Bonanza General Store. Company founder Carlos C. Jacome initially partnered with Loreto Carrillo and opened a store located at 84 West Congress Street, Tucson, Arizona. Jacome then partnered with Genaro S. Manzo in 1902. During their business partnership, Jacome and Manzo were involved with the Alianza Hispano-Americana, a fraternal benefit society for Mexican-Americans. The partnership between Jacome and Manzo was dissolved in 1913 and the store rem...

Jacome, Alex G.

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La Bonanza General Store

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University of Arizona, 1966-67

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University of Arizona recognition of 100 years of land-grant colleges and universities, 1862-1962, and the university’s participation in the centennial convocation of the American Association of Land-Grant Colleges and State Universities held at Kansas City, 1961. From the guide to the University of Arizona Land-Grant centennial records, 1960-1962, (University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections) University of Arizona recognition of 100 years of land-grant colleges and...

Alianza Hispano-Americana

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Alianza Hispano-Americana (AHA), founded in Tucson in 1894, was a Mexican American fraternal insurance society organized along Masonic lines into lodges, or logías. The Alianza members promoted civic virtues and acculturation; provided social activities; sickness and death benefits and burial insurance for its members. By 1930, the AHA had spread throughout the southwest and gradually extended to at least nine states in Mexico, expanding its mission to include concerns of civil rights and qualit...