| | 4 | Author: | unknown | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Tucson Artifacts (Crosses) -- Silverbell Material
circa 1920s-1970 ead | | | | Date(s): | circa 1920s-1970 | | | | Abstract: | The collection documents the discovery, investigation, and prolonged authenticity debate surrounding the Tucson Artifacts (also known as the Silverbell Road artifacts or Lead Crosses), a group of lead objects — crosses, swords, spears, and related items bearing Latin and Hebrew inscriptions — excavated near Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, between 1924 and 1927. Materials include correspondence, reports, statements, typescripts, transcriptions, illustrations, maps, assay certificates, newspaper clippings, publications, and miscellaneous notes drawn from the files of the Arizona State Museum and other sources. Principal figures represented include Byron Cummings, Emil W. Haury, Raymond H. Thompson, A. E. Douglass, Thomas W. Bent, Charles E. Manier, Neil M. Judd, and numerous other scholars and correspondents. The collection incorporates materials previously held as Archives A-054, A-055, A-191, A-192, and A-193. | | | | Repository: | Arizona State Museum | | | | Subjects: | Antiquities -- Collection and preservation -- Arizona. | Archaeological forgeries -- Arizona. | Inscriptions, Latin -- Arizona. | Inscriptions, Hebrew -- Arizona. | Lead objects -- Arizona. | Excavations (Archaeology) -- Arizona -- Tucson Region. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 10 | Author: | Arizona Biltmore | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Arizona Biltmore Hotel Photographs
1920s-1980s ead | | | | Date(s): | 1920s-1980s | | | | Abstract: | This collection houses approximately 928 photographs showing the Arizona Biltmore's physical facilities, including construction, grounds, interiors, aerial views, and building façades; guests; and recreational activities, including golf, tennis, horseback riding, swimming, and fashion shows. It has been divided into eight series. Only those images that have been digitized are described individually in this guide. | | | | Repository: | Arizona State University Library. Greater Arizona Collection | | | | Subjects: | Resorts -- Arizona -- Phoenix. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 17 | Author: | Gutierrez, Rebecca Muñoz (Rebecca Florian Muñoz), 1916-2000 | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Rebecca Muñoz Gutierrez Photographs
1920-1959 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1920-1959 | | | | Abstract: | This collection houses 281 photographs depicting Joaquim and Rebecca (Muñoz) Gutierrez and their families, including numerous relatives, the Muñoz family's time in Texas, Rebecca Muñoz and Joaquim Gutierrez's wedding and honeymoon, Mexican-American Movement conferences held in the early 1940s, and Rosalio, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Lucinda, and Josephine Muñoz's time at Arizona State Teachers College. Of particular interest are early images of Los Conquistadores, the first Mexican-American student club formed at the College. | | | | Repository: | Arizona State University Library. Chicano Research Collection | | | | Subjects: | Mexican Americans. | Minority college students -- Arizona. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 19 | Author: | Ransier, Anna | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Anna Ransier Glass Plate Collection,
circa 1920-1940 ead | | | | Date(s): | circa 1920-1940 | | | | Abstract: | Photographs, circa 1920-1940. This collection is comprised of photographs taken during the extensive travels of Anna Ransier, a Baptist missionary, and her husband Hubert during the 1920’s and 1930’s. The hand-colored glass plate lantern slides were then shown to various school, club and church groups during travel lectures that Anna gave. Of special interest are photographs of various National Parks in both the United States and Canada, the Hopi Indian Reservation in Northern Arizona, Mexico and Mexico City, and “mountaineer” life in the Appalachians of Tennessee. Also included in this collection are handwritten travel notes. A glass plate projector and miscellaneous projection equipment in a black leather accordion briefcase are located in Special Collections. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | African Americans - South - Pictorial works | Hopi Indians – Arizona – Pictorial works | Missionaries | National parks and reserves – Pictorial works | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
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