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
Photographs and glass plate negatives. Includes studio portraits, landscapes, local businesses, ranches, military forts, mills and hoists, pack trains, wagons, railroads, mines and miners. 1894-1913. 17 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. Now available at theCline Libraryat Northern Arizona University.
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.
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.
Louis Anthony Russo was a teacher, director, performer, and mentor. Russo was the founder of the Star Theater in Scottsdale where he developed the improv troupe, "The Oxymoron'Z" and taught stand-up comedy. 1982-1999. 1 box.
(With unprocessed memorabilia)
Various portraits of local and national
businessmen, actors, and politicians, cattle growers and
ranchers, Indians, landscapes, Greer, museum artifacts.
1930s-1950s. 7 boxes.
Prescott and Yavapai County, Pioneer Days
and rodeo, Fort Whipple, Northern Arizona Fair, Indian Dancers,
Arizona Monuments, and Grand Canyon. 1880s-1940s. 20 boxes.
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.
