A finding aid is a descriptive guide tothe 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.
Projects are underway to arrange, describe and catalog the photo collections in a consistent and helpful way. We have begun generating finding aids for each distinctive photograph collection. As each one is completed it will be posted below.
Consists of orphaned or individually donated photo albums. Represent various subject matter, photographic processes, and photographers from Arizona and the greater Southwest. 1860s-1970s. 7 boxes.
Contains approximately 15,000 photographs.
The collection is organized by broad subject categories:
Animals, Artifacts, Biography, Buildings, Canals, Dams,
and Irrigation, Cemeteries and Graveyards, Churches, Missions,
and Temples, Farming and Agriculture, Geology, Housing,
Indians, Law Enforcement, Landscapes, Military, Mining,
Natural Disasters, Organizations, People, Places, Plants,
Parades and Rodeos, Schools and Universities, Sports, Transportation,
and Utilities. 1850s-1990s. 78 boxes.
Allen, Helen
Building roads, towns, houses and highways.
1920s-1930s. 3 boxes
Baker, Roland
Historic images of Phoenix and Roosevelt
Dam. 1920s-1950s. 1 box
Barnes, Will C.
Val Verde Ranch, NM; Fort Huachuca and
military personal; personal awards and accomplishments.
1910s, 1930-1950s. 1 box
Allen Dutton is an ambitious and talented photographer who set out to photograph every street corner in every town in Arizona. This collection represents over fifty years of Dutton’s photographic career, including people, cities, towns, streets, and landscapes. Contains over 25,000 photographs. 1950s-2000s. 178 boxes.
Eckhart, George
Album of Mexican Missions
Fannin, Paul
Personal and political portraits. 1960s.
1 box.
Fay, Clark A.
Douglas and Bisbee, Arizona. 1900s-1910.
1 box.
Fears, Jess
Cowboys and cattle ranchers. 1900-1930s.
1 box.
Fireman, Bert
Local Phoenix people and places. 1950s-1960s.
3 boxes.
Historic photographs collected by Barry
M. Goldwater. Desert flora and fauna, landscapes, military,
mining, Native Americans, agriculture, buildings, street
scenes, transportation, and various people and places. 1850s-1960s.
8 boxes.
James H. McClintock was a founding member of Roosevelts Rough Riders, Newspaper reporter, Arizona Postmaster, and State Historian. Photographs of the Military, Dams, Arizona Locales, and Native Americans. 1860s-1930s. 12 boxes.
George Rothrock opened Phoenix’s first photography studio on the corner of First and Jefferson Streets.Stereocards of Apache Indians, various Forts, Early Phoenix, Plants and Animals. 1860s-1890s. 2 boxes.
Sacks, Benjamin
Movie stills, Hollywood headshots, portraits
of famous figures from Library of Congress Collection, Indians,
various building exteriors. 1880s-1940s. 2 boxes.
Sato, Susie
Various buildings and hotels in Phoenix.
1930s-1982. 1 box.
Schaus, Richard
Various portraits of local and national
businessmen, actors, and politicians, cattle growers and
ranchers, Indians, landscapes, Greer, museum artifacts.
1930s-1950s. 7 boxes.
Smith, Gusse Thomas
Northern Arizona, State parks, Indian
ruins, cowboys, Native Americans, desert landscapes, Biltmore
hotel, golf.. 1910-1930s. 1 box.
Prescott and Yavapai County, Pioneer Days
and rodeo, Fort Whipple, Northern Arizona Fair, Indian Dancers,
Arizona Monuments, and Grand Canyon. 1880s-1940s. 20 boxes.
Spude, Robert
Mining, mining camps, general stores.
1880s-1910s. 1 box.
Stevenson, Jeff
Crown King, Arizona. 1880s, 1980s. 1 box.
Stoddard, Isaac T.
Family album. 1870s-1900. 1 box.
Theobold, Lillian
Apache Pass, Fort Bowie, Wells Fargo.
1890s-1930s. 1 box.
Consists of 2000 photographs, 100 postcards, 6 album pages, and thousands of negatives, ranging from fair to good condition. Highlights of the collection include photographs of notable individuals like Teddy Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Al Sieber, and Henry Ashurst. Petroglyphs, historic markers, gravesites, miners and mines, and panoramas of forests are richly documented. 1860s-1970s. 22 boxes.