| | 2 | Author: | Luhrs family | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Luhrs Family Papers
1804-1997
1880-1978 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1804-1997 | | | | Abstract: | The Luhrs Family Papers house correspondence, legal documents, financial records, real estate records, blueprints, ledgers, and other materials documenting the Luhrs family's emigration from Germany to the United States and life and work in Phoenix, Arizona. Among the subjects represented are real estate holdings; construction and administration of the Commercial Hotel (later known as the Hotel Luhrs), the Luhrs Building, the Luhrs Central Building, the Luhrs Tower, the Luhrs Arcade, and the Luhrs Parking Center; George Luhrs Sr.'s business partnership with Newell Herrick; agricultural and mining enterprises; such fraternal organizations as the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, the El Zaribah Shrine, the Free and Accepted Masons, the Knights Templar, the Royal Arch Masons, and the Rotary Club; George Luhrs Jr.'s and Arthur Luhrs' education in the Phoenix public schools and at Stanford University; George Luhrs Jr.'s and A. C. Taylor's military service, including service in World War I; and family members' private lives. | | | | Repository: | Arizona State University Library
Greater Arizona Collection | | | | Subjects: | Commercial buildings -- Arizona -- Phoenix | Hotels -- Arizona -- Phoenix | Mines and mineral resources -- Arizona | Office buildings -- Arizona -- Phoenix | Real estate development -- Arizona -- Phoenix | Real estate investment -- Arizona -- Phoenix | World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, American | | | | Matches:
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| ...University of Arizona,...
...Arizona State University,...
...Arizona State University Century Club,...
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| 3 | Author: | Henney, Homer (Homer Jay), 1896-1979 | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Homer J. Henney Photographs
1917-1918 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1917-1918 | | | | Abstract: | This collection includes 33 photographs documenting World War I in France during approximately 1917-1918. Among the scenes depicted are American and French artillery units, soldiers wiring trenches, cemeteries, and the results of shelling. These images appear to be part of a commercially produced and distributed set, not original photographs taken by Henney. | | | | Repository: | Arizona State University Library. Greater Arizona Collection | | | | Subjects: | United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 137th. | World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, American. | | | | Matches:
18 hit(s)
| ...Photographs, CP SPC 15, Arizona State University Library....
...State University Library. Greater Arizona Collection P.O....
...Arizona State University does not own the copyright to this collection....
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| 4 | Author: | Henney, Homer (Homer Jay), 1896-1979 | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Homer J. Henney Papers
1917-1924, 1970-1972 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1917-1924, 1970-1972 | | | | Abstract: | This collection consists primarily of letters that Homer J. Henney wrote to his family in Horton, Kansas while he was serving with the 137th Infantry during World War I. Also included are newspaper clippings, orders, financial records, and other materials documenting Henney's military service; a copy of Die Sagan: Das Leben der Herzogin Wilhelmine von Sagan Prinzessin von Kurland that Henney found in the bunker where Hitler committed suicide and correspondence regarding this book; and testimony regarding a 1924 automobile accident that Henney was involved in. | | | | Repository: | Arizona State University Library. Greater Arizona Collection | | | | Subjects: | Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Homes and haunts. | United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 137th. | World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, American. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, American. | | | | Matches:
24 hit(s)
| ...J. Henney Papers, MSS-47, Arizona State University Library....
...Special Orders Regarding Henney, 1918 October 23-1919 July...
...State University Library. Greater Arizona Collection P.O....
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