Arizona Historical Foundation

A finding aid is a descriptive guide to the content of a collection. The guide describes the origin, background, contents, and arrangement of a collection. It also includes a folder listing of the contents.

Processed Collections
The alphbetical links below lead to an annotated list of all processed collections with links to the finding aids.

A	B	C	D-F
G-I	J-L	M	N-P
Q-R	S	T-V	W-Z

Finding Aids by Collection Type

	Manuscript Collections
	Photograph Collections
	Oral History Collection
	Microfilm Collection

AHF COLLECTIONS

What began in 1959 as an eclectic mix of material that reflected the AHF founders’ personal interests has given way to specific areas of concentration - Arizona business, law and politics, which encompass the 20th - 21st centuries.

Manuscripts

There are over 135 processed manuscript collections with finding aids. The collections date from territorial days to the present. Topics include, but are not limited to, Phoenix pioneers, agriculture, banking, business, politics, water, lawyers and lawmakers, the arts, writers and journalists, university faculty, health and human services, and cartoonists. Some collections contain special media formats including phonograph records, audio tapes, VHS tapes, CDs and DVDs.
Finding aids for the collections are available online. See column to the right. AHF manuscript collections also are cataloged in the ASU Libraries Catalog. Manuscript collections can be found several ways within the Catalog. Most manuscripts are named after their creator. For best results search Author first.

	Photographs

	Interest in photography began with Barry M. Goldwater who was a master photographer. His personal photographs, those of his family and friends, and those documenting his political career provide the nucleus of AHF holdings. Over the years, collections of well known photographers such as Allen Dutton and Dane Coolidge were added. The photographic collections of Don Dedera, Charles Gilliland, Wade Head, Warren Krause, James McClintock, Ruth
Reinhold, Richard Schaus, Grace Sparkes, Lillian Theobold, and Roscoe Wilson represent a wide range of Arizona subjects, dates and geographical locations. For the first time, finding aids are being generated for each photograph collection. This is an ongoing project. As each one is completed it will be posted on our website.

Ephemera

AHF has over 2500 files of emphemeral material. Ephemera are items not originally intended to last beyond their short term use but now have historical research value. This includes pamphlets, brochures, posters and memorabilia. AHF ephemera are cataloged at item-level. The item level descriptions can be searched using the Special Materials Index .

	Microfilm

	AHF has over 1300 reels of microfilm. The material contained on the microfilm includes territorial era newspapers, federal and state documents, diaries, journals, and biographies. See the AHF Microfilm Collection finding aid and the Papers of Senator Barry M. Goldwater Media Series for listings of individual reels.

Books

AHF has nearly 9,000 voumes relating to history of the Southwest and Arizona. The AHF library is non-circulating so patrons must use the books in the reading room.

The books are cataloged in the ASU Libraries Catalog.

This website made possible by a generous donation from William W. Clements.

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