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2461	Author:	Shantz, H.L. (Homer LeRoy), 1876-1958	Add to Favorites
	Title:	Homer Leroy Shantz papers, 1903-1958 ead
	Date(s):	1903-1958
	Abstract:	Field notebooks, reprint articles, speeches, survey abstracts, photographs, diaries, and correspondence pertaining to Shantz's interests in worldwide agriculture and botany. Shantz's various trips to Africa resulted in extensive field notes, including those for the Smithsonian African Expedition, 1919 to 1920, and the African Education Commission, 1923 to 1924. Background material he collected about Africa encompasses maps; postcards; dictionaries and primers on languages, including Swahili; also, articles on the people, the areas they inhabited, and specific problems, such as the tsetse fly, sleeping sickness, forced labor, and race relations. Photographs of his travels from the Cape to Cairo depict the Nile, Egyptian ruins, wild and domestic animals, vegetation and the landscape, villages and cities, and people in tribal dress. Communal activities documented include cultivation, thatching roofs, building a road, and weaving a large bamboo mat to cover a bridge walkway.
	Repository:	University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
	Subjects:	Plant ecology -- Africa \| Plant ecology -- United States \| Vegetation surveys -- South America \| Vegetation surveys -- Colorado \| Vegetation surveys -- Africa \| Swahili language -- Dictionaries -- English \| English language -- Dictionaries -- Swahili \| Agriculture -- Africa \| Soils -- Africa \| Agriculture -- United States \| Soils -- United States \| Africa -- Description and travel
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2462	Author:	Couldock, C. W. (Charles Walter), 1815-1898.	Add to Favorites
	Title:	Charles Walter Couldock scrapbook 1815-1898 ead
	Date(s):	1815-1898
	Abstract:	Scrapbook containing chiefly photoengraved portraits; some original engravings are also present. Also included are press reviews which describe plays in New Orleans and San Francisco in which Couldock, and his daughter Eliza Couldock, performed. Two letters are present. One from 1862 refers to the London appearance of E.A. Sothern as Lord Dundreary; the other, from 1871, was written to Couldock from the actress Charlotte Cushman. The portraits cover a broad spectrum of famous people, particularly rulers, statesmen, military leaders, the nobility, and authors. Others included are actors and actresses, musicians, scientists, artists, and explorers.
	Repository:	University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
	Subjects:	Authors -- Portraits. \| Kings and rulers -- Portraits. \| Nobility -- Portraits. \| Statesmen -- Portraits. \| Theater -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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2463	Author:	Coburn, Walt, 1889-1971.	Add to Favorites
	Title:	Stirrup High 1889-1971 ead
	Date(s):	1889-1971
	Abstract:	Typescript manuscript with holograph corrections and edits of the juvenile novel, Stirrup High. The autobiographical story is about Walt, who as a fourteen year old boy, spends the summer as a working cowboy on his father's Montana ranch.
	Repository:	University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
	Subjects:	Cowboys -- Montana -- Juvenile literature. \| Ranch life -- Montana -- Juvenile literature.
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2464	Author:	Cureton Cattle Company	Add to Favorites
	Title:	Cureton Cattle Company papers 1890-1917 ead
	Date(s):	1890-1917
	Abstract:	James White Cureton was a pioneer cattleman in southern New Mexico and Texas. Collection includes business correspondence, financial accounts, and livestock records of cattle operations in New Mexico.
	Repository:	University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
	Subjects:	Cattle trade -- New Mexico -- History -- Sources.
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2465	Author:	Blazer family	Add to Favorites
	Title:	Blazer Family papers, 1857-1966 (bulk 1870-1955) ead
	Date(s):	1857-1966 (bulk 1870-1955)
	Abstract:	Chiefly photocopies of correspondence, manuscripts, land claims, patents, machinery catalogs, and legal papers of Armer Newton Blazer; also photocopied correspondence and manuscripts of Paul Blazer, and photograph reprints.
	Repository:	University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
	Subjects:	Pioneers -- New Mexico \| Pioneers -- Texas \| Frontier and pioneer life -- New Mexico \| Apache Indians -- History \| Mescalero language -- Dictionaries -- English \| English language -- Dictionaries -- Mescalero \| Indian reservations -- New Mexico -- History \| Lincoln County War, 1878
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2466	Author:	Smith, Steadman. Collector	Add to Favorites
	Title:	The Horseless Carriage Collection of Automobile History 1893-1965 (bulk 1938-1955) ead
	Date(s):	1893-1965
	Abstract:	The Horseless Carriage Collection of Automobile History consist of pamphlets, magazines, promotional reports, newspaper articles, advertisements, calendars, newsletters, photographs, and other pictorial items relating to the history and development of the automobile, dated 1893 to 1965. Most are items distributed by car-related businesses in the 1940s and 1950s. Earlier materials are nostalgic reprints of turn-of-the-century materials.
	Repository:	University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
	Subjects:	Horseless Carriage Club \| Antique and classic cars \| Automobile rallies—History \| Automobile industry and trade—History \| Automobiles—Societies, etc. \| Automobiles—Pictorial works \| Automobiles—Collectors and collecting—United States \| Automobiles—Social aspects—History \| Automobiles—Design and construction—History
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2467	Author:	Lister, Thomas A.	Add to Favorites
	Title:	Thomas A. Lister papers 1903-1937 (bulk 1929-1933) ead
	Date(s):	1903-1937
	Abstract:	Thomas A. Lister was an Entrepreneur associated with Metal Mining Properties, Lordsburg, New Mexico. Collection includes handwritten and typescript documents pertaining mainly to Lister's mining enterprises in Grant County and Hidalgo County, New Mexico. Included are location notices, assay reports, hand-drawn maps, blueprints, notebooks, telegrams, and other documents concerning the promotion, sale, and lease of specific mines.
	Repository:	University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
	Subjects:	Copper mines and mining -- New Mexico -- History -- Sources. \| Gold mines and mining -- New Mexico -- History -- Sources. \| Mines and mineral resources -- New Mexico -- Grant County -- History -- Sources. \| Mines and mineral resources -- New Mexico -- Hidalgo County -- History -- Sources. \| Silver mines and mining -- New Mexico -- History -- Sources.
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2468	Author:	Douglas, Frances	Add to Favorites
	Title:	Frances Douglas Papers, 1892-1963 ead
	Date(s):	1892-1963
	Abstract:	Contains correspondence, diaries, articles, stories, clippings, memorabilia, photographs, and translations of mostly unpublished works by Spanish-language writers. Some of the authors are Concha Espina de Serna, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Jose Maria Carretero, Guillermo Diaz-Caneja, Gregorio Martinez Sierra, Rafael Delgado, Pedro Juan Labarthe, Jose Lopez- Portillo y Rojas, Emilia Pardo-Bazan, Jose Echegaray and Eduardo Zamacois. Personal material consists of correspondence and family photographs, from marriage to Charles Fletcher Lummis, and later to Courtenay DeKalb, with whom she operated the Roadside Mine in Arizona. Photographs and correspondence related to the mine are present. Also included are typescripts of Douglas' published and unpublished articles, stories, and translations. Original drawings are by E.A. Burbank and Carl Oscar Borg. Correspondence with friends and publishers includes writers Eugene Rhodes, Henry Knibbs, Concha Espina, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, José María Carretero, Pedro Labarthe, Guillermo Diaz-Caneja, and the publisher Phoebe Hearst. Diaries and photographs document travels to Mexico and Europe. Stories were recorded by Douglas while she lived among the Isleta Indians. Mexican and U.S. newspapers, 1911-1915, report on the Mexican Revolution. Related material in MS 39 and MS 297.
	Repository:	University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
	Subjects:	American Association of University Women. \| Spanish Literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. \| Isleta Indians -- Legends. \| Indians of North America -- New Mexico -- Legends. \| Mines and mineral resources -- Arizona -- Pima County -- History -- Sources. \| Roadside Mine (Ariz.) \| Women authors. \| Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920. \| 1900-1924. \| 1925-1949.
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2469	Author:	United States. District Court (Arkansas : Western District)	Add to Favorites
	Title:	United States District Court (Arkansas : Western District) records 1865-1895 ead
	Date(s):	1865-1895
	Abstract:	Includes jury summons, lists of jurors, travel and service expense vouchers for serving warrants, abstracts of compensation to posse members and witnesses, certificates of employment on guard duty, receipts for payment of board, lodging, and travel, and an indictment for treason, United States vs. Jackson Yearton, 1865.
	Repository:	University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
	Subjects:	Court records -- Arkansas. \| Crime -- Arkansas -- History -- Sources. \| Criminals -- Arkansas -- History -- Sources. \| Criminology -- Indian Territory -- History -- Sources.
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2470	Author:	Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928	Add to Favorites
	Title:	Charles F. Lummis papers, 1559-1973 ead
	Date(s):	1559-1973
	Abstract:	The collection includes correspondence (1879-1928), biographical materials and memorabilia (1884-1973), photographs (1889-1928), and historical materials (1559-1932), including original and typescript historical documents mainly from Spain and California.
	Repository:	University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
	Subjects:	Mohave Indians -- Photographs \| Pueblo Indians -- Photographs \| Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Photographs \| Antisemitism -- Spain -- History -- 17th century -- Sources \| Hospitals -- Spain -- History -- 16th century -- Sources \| Ships -- Passenger lists
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2471	Author:	Cortés y de Olarte, José María, -1811.	Add to Favorites
	Title:	Memorias sobre las provincias del norte de Nueva España 1799 ead
	Date(s):	1799
	Abstract:	Bound manuscript volume contains two different works on northern New Spain. Also contains a complete copy of the diary kept by the Franciscans Silvestre Vélez de Escalante and Francisco Atanasio Domínguez. It recounts their expedition into Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico in 1776-1777.
	Repository:	University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
	Subjects:	Apache Indians -- History -- 18th century -- Sources. \| Explorers -- New Spain. \| Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- History -- 18th century -- Sources.
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2472	Author:	United States. Army. Department of the Missouri.	Add to Favorites
	Title:	United States Army, Military Division of the Missouri correspondence 1878-1880 ead
	Date(s):	1878-1880
	Abstract:	Photocopies of 118 documents, chiefly official correspondence and printed orders related to Captain Nicholas Nolan, 10th Cavalry, from 1878 to 1880. Letters from the winter of 1879 concern the escort and protection of reservation Indians on a hunting expedition, including Kiowas, Comanches and Pawnees. In the summer and fall of 1880, while stationed at Fort Quitman, Texas, Nolan cooperated with Mexican forces along the Rio Grande River, in the pursuit of Indians with the Apache chief, Victorio. Correspondents include Henry O. Flipper and P.B. Hunt.
	Repository:	University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
	Subjects:	African American soldiers -- History -- 19th century. \| Apache Indians -- Wars. \| Comanche Indians -- Wars. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- Oklahoma. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas. \| Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- Government relations -- 1869-1934. \| Kiowa Indians -- Wars. \| Pawnee Indians -- Wars.
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2473	Author:	United States -- Army -- Regimental Combat Team -- 442nd -- Photographs	Add to Favorites
	Title:	United States War Relocation Authority Collection, 1942-1946 ead
	Date(s):	1942-1946
	Abstract:	Publications, reports, manuals, correspondence, photographs, and other materials relating mainly to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
	Repository:	University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
	Subjects:	World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- United States \| Concentration camps -- United States \| Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 \| Japanese Americans -- Photographs \| Japanese in the United States \| World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans \| Land grants -- Arizona
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2474	Author:	United States. Army. Department of the Missouri. District of Colorado.	Add to Favorites
	Title:	Operational and Administrative Papers Relating to the District of Colorado and the 1st Regiment Cavalry of Colorado 1863-1865 ead
	Date(s):	1863-1865
	Abstract:	The 1st Regiment Cavalry of Colorado was made up of volunteers from Colorado citizenry. It was organized in Denver in 1861, having been converted to cavalry from an infantry unit. Twenty-one items include special orders, reports, monthly returns by the quartermaster, invoices, inventories, muster rolls, and letters. The bulk of the collection is comprised of operational documents related to equipment and supplies for the regiment.
	Repository:	University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
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2475	Author:	United States. Army. Quartermaster Corps.	Add to Favorites
	Title:	United States Army, Quartermaster Corps. invoices 1849 ead
	Date(s):	1849
	Abstract:	Contains two holograph duplicate invoices for building materials and tools sent for the construction of "the Fort on the River Gila." The invoices were signed and dated by Bvt. Lt. Col. S. McRee, Quartermaster, U.S. Army, St. Louis, Mo. on May 12 and June 7, 1849. The invoice dated June 7 consists of one leaf; that of May 12, consists of three pages. The lists include weights and quantities for diverse items such as quarry picks, wheel segments, paint brushes, cooking stoves, door locks, glue and glue pots, grind stones, linseed oil, plows, window glass, plugs of feathers, and white lead. Items were sent to an unnamed "Acting Quartermaster," and items not received were so noted.
	Repository:	University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
	Subjects:	Fortification -- Southwest, New -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- Southwest, New -- Sources
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2476	Author:	United States. Army. District of New Mexico.	Add to Favorites
	Title:	United States Army, District of New Mexico records 1851-1883 (bulk 1863-1866) ead
	Date(s):	1851-1883
	Abstract:	Portfolio of 18 handwritten documents, which pertain chiefly to the administration of Fort Sumner from 1863 to 1866. Other New Mexican army posts are represented by only one or two documents. These are Fort Stanton, Fort Union, Fort Marcy and Fort Cummings.
	Repository:	University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
	Subjects:	Fortification -- New Mexico -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- New Mexico -- Sources. \| Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. \| Navajo Indians -- Government relations. \| Navajo Indians -- Removal.
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2477	Author:	Payne, John.	Add to Favorites
	Title:	John Payne papers 1893-1917 ead
	Date(s):	1893-1917
	Abstract:	Includes 25 items mainly pertaining to John Payne's ranching operations in Socorro, N.M. The letters, receipts, and legal papers document the buying and selling of cattle and, to a lesser extent, of horses. Also present are brand certificates from 1901 and 1917, two personal postcards, and a letter by Charles M. Crossman requesting admittance into an Odd Fellows Lodge.
	Repository:	University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
	Subjects:	Cattle brands -- New Mexico -- History -- Sources. \| Cattle trade -- New Mexico -- History -- Sources. \| Horse industry -- New Mexico -- History -- Sources. \| Ranches -- New Mexico -- History -- Sources.
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2478	Author:	Dodge, David, Jr.	Add to Favorites
	Title:	David Dodge Jr. diary 1831-1834 ead
	Date(s):	1831-1834
	Abstract:	Photocopy of a 35-page holographic diary by Dodge; it recounts his adventures beginning in New Bedford, Mass., aboard the whaling ship, "Russell," from 1831-1834. He describes the Pacific voyage including South American ports, whale hunting procedures, and the environmental importance of the Galapagos Islands. Also present is a typed transcription of the diary by John Dunklee and Alan Newton of the Geography Dept., University of Arizona. It contains an introduction with background information, annotations, and a map of the voyage.
	Repository:	University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
	Subjects:	Seafaring life -- History -- 19th century. \| Whaling -- Pacific Ocean -- History -- 19th century. \| Whaling ships -- Massachusetts -- New Bedford.
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2479	Author:	Fort Vancouver (Wash.)	Add to Favorites
	Title:	Fort Vancouver (Washington) records 1854-1866 ead
	Date(s):	1854-1866
	Abstract:	Located at the border of Washington and Oregon, it was a Hudson Bay Company trading post from 1829-1846. One portfolio containing printed and holographic items related primarily to the 4th Infantry, based at Fort Vancouver. The earliest material consists of nine monthly post returns from 1854, signed by the commanding officer, Lt. Col. Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville. These post returns list officers by name; enlisted men by count; civil employees, their duties, and rate of pay; official communications received; also the names of anyone sick, or in confinement for desertion. A food survey report from 1856 is concerned with rotten pork, hard bread, and moldy coffee. Later correspondence, special orders, and general orders date from 1860 to 1866.
	Repository:	University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
	Subjects:	Fortification -- Washington (State) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- Oregon -- History. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- Washington (State) -- Sources.
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2480	Author:	Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William), 1865-1933.	Add to Favorites
	Title:	An International Affair ead
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	Abstract:	Robert W. Chambers, 1865-1933, was an Artist and illustrator; author of romance fiction and military articles and sketches. The collection includes a holograph, 40-page manuscript, written in pencil, contains a fictional story about Civil War soldiers.
	Repository:	University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
	Subjects:	Manuscripts, American.
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