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Collection Summary | |
Creator: |
Southern Pacific Railroad Company |
Collection Name: | Apache Trail of Arizona Photograph Album |
Inclusive Dates: | circa 1915 |
Physical Description: | 0.5 linear ft. |
Abstract: | Leather-bound photograph album, with hand-tinted color photographs of scenes along Apache Trail in Arizona, created by Southern Pacific Railroad Company, probably for display in its depots, ca. 1915. |
Collection Number: | MS 487> |
Repository: |
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections University of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-621-6423 Fax: 520-621-9733 URL:http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/ |
The Apache Trail is a roadway linking the greater Phoenix area with Theodore Roosevelt Lake passing through the Superstition Mountains and the Tonto National Forest in central Arizona. Formerly called the Mesa-Roosevelt Road, it was renamed about 1915 by a Southern Pacific Railroad employee who wanted to promote one of the railroad’s scenic side trips. The trip was an option for its transcontinental passengers.
Photograph album, with hand-tinted color photographs, of scenes along the Apache Trail through the Superstition Mountains and Tonto National Forest, ca. 1915. Photographs include views of Globe, Arizona, the Old Dominion mine and smelter, Tonto cliff dwellings, Theodore Roosevelt Lake and Dam, automobiles, and one image of the bridge across the Salt River at Tempe with a horse and carriage crossing the bridge. The album is inscribed with the name “Thelma Alexander.” This series is arranged in order of travel.
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Apache Trail of Arizona Photograph Album(MS 487). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries.