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Collection Summary | |
Creator: | Riecker, Fred A. |
Collection Name: | Fred A. Riecker Papers |
Inclusive Dates: | 1848-1967 |
Bulk Dates: | (bulk 1930-1967) |
Physical Description: | 5.5 linear ft. |
Abstract: | The Fred A. Riecker Papers includes correspondence, legal documents, ledgers, real estate abstracts, photographic prints, negatives, maps, charts, railroad tickets and itineraries, dated 1858-1967 (bulk 1930-1967) pertaining to Fred A. Riecker and the Riecker family. The bulk of the material consists of legal and financial documents that relate to the parcel of real estate, otherwise known as Riecker’s Addition, as well as Fred A. Riecker’s professional career as a railroad surveying engineer and civil advocate for Tucson. |
Collection Number: | MS 493 |
Language: | Materials in English |
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/ |
Fred A. Riecker was born in San Francisco, California, 1878, but shortly thereafter moved with his mother to Tucson, Arizona. He later began his professional career as a railroad survey engineer during the early 20th century for various locomotive companies throughout the American Southwest. In subsequent years, he worked as a civil engineer in Tucson. Throughout his life, he was intellectually engaged in a number of civil issues concerning Tucson and the greater Southwest that prompted his extensive writing of letters to various newspaper editors and politicians. In his later years, Fred A. Riecker published a semi-autobiographical manuscript detailing the pre- and post-railroad Tucson pioneer life of his family in “Horatio Algebra and Chief One and One.”
His father, Paul Riecker, was a nationally renown civil and mining engineer who drew the first official map of the Arizona territory which was published in 1879 from his previous topographical survey of California and Arizona as part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He led an early exploration party across the Colorado Plateau and was among the first to make contact with the Havasupai at the Grand Canyon. Paul Riecker sued for homestead rights, thereby creating the origins of Riecker’s Addition. He built the first houses north of the railroad tracks in Tucson in 1880. In 1896, Paul Riecker mapped Pasadena, California, and laid out Inglewood and Redondo Beach, California. He was also involved in the Panama-Nicaragua Canal controversy as one of the original surveyors of the Nicaragua Canal route.
The Fred A. Riecker Papers includes correspondence, legal documents, ledgers, real estate abstracts, photographic prints, negatives, maps, charts, railroad tickets and itineraries, dated 1858-1967 (bulk 1930-1967) pertaining to Fred A. Riecker and the Riecker family. The bulk of the material consists of legal and financial documents that relate to the parcel of real estate, otherwise known as Riecker’s Addition, as well as Fred A. Riecker’s professional career as a railroad surveying engineer and civil advocate for Tucson.
Other material in the collection is composed of correspondence belonging to various Riecker family members that invoke a variety of subjects such as real estate, family estates and financial investments. Many of the correspondences are between Fred A. Riecker and his family members, but others include letters to politicians, newspaper editors and personal contacts. The Fred A. Riecker Papers also include a number of photographic portraits taken of individual members of the Riecker family and photographic prints of Tucson landmarks and the University of Arizona. Finally, there are several maps and charts created and used both by Fred and Paul Riecker during their respective professional tenure as civil engineers.
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Fred A. Riecker Papers (MS 493). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries.
Series I: Fred A. Riecker , 1878-1967 | |||||||||||
Subseries I: Correspondence 1908-1967 | |||||||||||
Fred A. Riecker’s correspondences are arranged chronologically. The subseries contains letters relating to his professional career as a railroad-surveying engineer, letters to editors and officials, and personal correspondence between family members and friends. | |||||||||||
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1 | 1 | Marie Randall 1908 | |||||||||
1 | 2 | Professional 1910-1922 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | General Correspondence 1919-1959 | |||||||||
1 | 4 | General Correspondence 1960-1965 | |||||||||
1 | 5 | Annie W. Riecker 1920-1944 | |||||||||
1 | 6 | Tucson Air Service 1927-1964 | |||||||||
1 | 7 | Colorado River Project 1930-1964 | |||||||||
1 | 8 | Medical 1932-1962 | |||||||||
1 | 9 | Letters to the editor 1932-1964 | |||||||||
1 | 10 | Letters to the editor 1965-1967 | |||||||||
1 | 11 | Letters to government officials 1932-1967 | |||||||||
1 | 12 | Edna F. Riecker [Sister Mary Winifred] 1938-1945 | |||||||||
1 | 13 | Ruth Slattery 1938-1963 | |||||||||
1 | 14 | Postcards with photographic background 1939-1960 | |||||||||
1 | 15 | Eugene Riecker 1941-1947 | |||||||||
1 | 16 | Arizona Pioneer's Historical Society and the National Geographic Society 1942-1962 | |||||||||
1 | 17 | Myrtle Riecker 1945-1959 | |||||||||
1 | 18 | Myrtle Riecker 1960-1961 | |||||||||
1 | 19 | Belden Family 1948-1962 | |||||||||
1 | 20 | Charitable Causes 1950-1962 | |||||||||
1 | 21 | Evelyn Bernstein 1950-1961 | |||||||||
1 | 22 | Rena Pendleton 1952-1962 | |||||||||
1 | 23 | Hazel Kempf 1952-1963 | |||||||||
1 | 24 | Sarah McKenna 1953-1954 | |||||||||
1 | 25 | Frank Squire 1956-1966 | |||||||||
1 | 26 | Gladys Stanton 1958-1963 | |||||||||
1 | 27 | Relating to the Caryl Chessman case 1960 | |||||||||
1 | 28 | "Horatio Algebra and Chief One and One" 1960-1961 | |||||||||
1 | 29 | East Broadway subway 1961-1962 | |||||||||
1 | 30 | United Nations relocation 1961-1966 | |||||||||
1 | 31 | Dr. John and Alice Ruddock 1963 | |||||||||
1 | 32 | Proposals for new counties in Arizona 1965 | |||||||||
1 | 33 | Greeting cards 1937-1963 | |||||||||
1 | 34 | Greeting cards undated | |||||||||
1 | 35 | Envelopes 1937-1964 | |||||||||
Subseries II: Personal 1894-1967 | |||||||||||
The personal documents belonging to Fred A. Riecker are arranged chronologically. The subseries contains documents relevant to Fred A. Riecker’s personal life, such as documents reflecting his matriculation and medical records, as well as documents relating to his estate and personal travels. | |||||||||||
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1 | 36 | Higher education documents 1894-1901 | |||||||||
1 | 37 | General documents 1918-1966 | |||||||||
1 | 38 | Automobile documents 1919-1961 | |||||||||
1 | 39 | Medical documents 1932-1967 | |||||||||
1 | 40 | Europe trip memorabilia 1939 | |||||||||
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2 | 1 | Europe trip memorabilia> 1939 | |||||||||
2 | 2 | Europe trip memorabilia> 1939 | |||||||||
2 | 3 | Notes and jottings 1954-1958 | |||||||||
2 | 4 | Notes and jottings 1959-1967 | |||||||||
2 | 5 | Notes and jottings undated | |||||||||
2 | 6 | Funeral and estate documents 1962-1966 | |||||||||
Subseries III: Professional 1894-1957 | |||||||||||
The professional documents belonging to Fred A. Riecker are arranged chronologically. The subseries contains documents that shed light on Fred A. Riecker’s career as a survey and civil engineer for various railroad companies, as well as maps and charts employed by both Paul and Fred Riecker during their work. | |||||||||||
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2 | 7 | Railroad papers 1894-1917 | |||||||||
2 | 8 | Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen documents 1898-1900 | |||||||||
2 | 9 | Southern Pacific Railroad Company documents 1907-1917 | |||||||||
2 | 10 | Charts, diagrams and tables 1914-1920 | |||||||||
2 | 11 | Published documents 1917-1919 | |||||||||
2 | 12 | Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe / Union Pacific Railroad proposed route 1938 | |||||||||
2 | 13 | Holy Hope Cemetary 1957 | |||||||||
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6 | 1 | Map: Feather River 650 ft. dam 1927 | |||||||||
6 | 1 | Map: Southern Pacific Lands Company 1947 | |||||||||
Subseries IV: "Horatio Algebra and Chief One and One" 1957-1961 | |||||||||||
The manuscripts and documents relating to Fred A. Riecker's published work, "Horatio Algebra and Chief One and One", are arranged chronologically. The subseries contains documents involving Fred A. Riecker's research and subsequent publishing of his book. The written work was made as an attempt to document the Riecker family’s early Tucson pioneer life. | |||||||||||
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2 | 14 | Notes and jottings 1957-1960 | |||||||||
2 | 15 | Pencil manuscripts 1959 | |||||||||
2 | 16 | Early notes and drafts 1959 | |||||||||
2 | 17 | Typescripts 1959-1960 | |||||||||
2 | 18 | Copyright documents 1959-1960 | |||||||||
2 | 19 | First typed copy 1960 | |||||||||
2 | 20 | Salt River Project 1961 | |||||||||
Subseries V: Water Reclamation , 1931-1967 | |||||||||||
The documents that deal with water reclamation rights are arranged chronologically. The subseries has documents addressing the water reclamation issues that Fred A. Riecker advocated for on Tucson’s behalf. | |||||||||||
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2 | 21 | Information pamphlets 1930-1967 | |||||||||
2 | 22 | "Suspended Sediment and Chemical Analyses of San Pedro River at Charleston, Arizona." 1961 | |||||||||
2 | 23 | Colorado River Project notes 1961-1967 | |||||||||
2 | 24 | Central Valley Project 1963 | |||||||||
Subseries VI: Newspaper Clippings , 1934-1964 | |||||||||||
The newspaper clippings are arranged chronologically and separated by two of the most occurring types of newspaper clippings Fred A. Riecker collected throughout his life. “Arizona Album” was printed in the newspaper featuring early Arizona pioneering families. | |||||||||||
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2 | 25 | General 1934-1967 | |||||||||
2 | 26 | "Arizona Album" 1958-1964 | |||||||||
Subseries VII: Financial 1938-1967 | |||||||||||
The financial documents and records are arranged chronologically. The subseries contains documents pertaining to Fred A. Riecker’s financial and real estate assets. | |||||||||||
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2 | 27 | Investments and securities documents 1938-1958 | |||||||||
2 | 28 | Insurance documents 1945-1956 | |||||||||
2 | 29 | State and County Tax Receipts 1950-1967 | |||||||||
2 | 30 | Statements of account [Union Bank] 1961-1967 | |||||||||
2 | 31 | Statements of account [Southern Arizona Bank and First Western Bank] 1964-1967 | |||||||||
Subseries VIII: Journals 1905-1967 | |||||||||||
The journals, diaries and ledgers are arranged chronologically. The subseries contains journals, diaries and ledgers Fred A. Riecker maintained throughout his professional and personal life. | |||||||||||
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3 | 1 | Journal -- Field Book 1905 | |||||||||
3 | 2 | Journal -- Field Book 1912 | |||||||||
3 | 3 | Journal -- Notebook 1919 | |||||||||
3 | 4 | Journal -- Personal Diary 1928 | |||||||||
3 | 5 | Journal -- Personal Diary 1933 | |||||||||
3 | 6 | Ledger [No.1] 1934-1935 | |||||||||
3 | 7 | Ledger [No.2] 1935 | |||||||||
3 | 8 | Ledger [No.3] 1935-1936 | |||||||||
3 | 9 | Ledger [No.4] 1936 | |||||||||
3 | 10 | Ledger [No.5] 1936-1937 | |||||||||
3 | 11 | Journal -- Weekly Calendar 1937 | |||||||||
3 | 12 | Journal -- Personal Diary 1938 | |||||||||
3 | 13 | Journal -- Personal Diary 1939 | |||||||||
3 | 14 | Journal -- Personal Diary 1939 | |||||||||
3 | 15 | Ledger -- Order Book 1939-1953 | |||||||||
3 | 16 | Ledger -- Order Book 1944-1954 | |||||||||
3 | 17 | Journal -- Weekly Calendar 1959-1961 | |||||||||
3 | 18 | Ledger -- Xerox Copy 1959-1963 | |||||||||
3 | 19 | Journal -- Personal Diary 1961 | |||||||||
3 | 20 | Journal -- Personal Diary 1962 | |||||||||
3 | 21 | Journal -- Personal Diary 1963 | |||||||||
3 | 22 | Journal -- Personal Diary 1964 | |||||||||
3 | 23 | Journal -- Personal Diary 1965 | |||||||||
3 | 24 | Journal -- Personal Diary 1966 | |||||||||
3 | 25 | Journal -- Personal Diary 1967 | |||||||||
3 | 26 | Journal -- Notebook undated | |||||||||
Subseries IX: Railroad Tickets and Itineraries 1950-1957 | |||||||||||
The railroad tickets and itineraries of Fred A. Riecker from 1950-1957 are arranged chronologically. The tickets and itineraries from distinct railroad companies display images and advertising indicative of the 1950s and 1960s. | |||||||||||
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3 | 27 | Railroad Tickets and Itineraries 1950 | |||||||||
3 | 28 | Railroad Tickets and Itineraries 1951 | |||||||||
3 | 29 | Railroad Tickets and Itineraries 1952 | |||||||||
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4 | 1 | Railroad Tickets and Itineraries 1953 | |||||||||
4 | 2 | Railroad Tickets and Itineraries 1954-1955 | |||||||||
4 | 3 | Railroad Tickets and Itineraries 1956 | |||||||||
4 | 4 | Railroad Tickets and Itineraries 1957 | |||||||||
Subseries X: Checks and Check stubs 1940-1967 | |||||||||||
The checks and check stubs of several dozen individual checks and check stubs belonging to Fred A. Riecker are arranged in chronological order. | |||||||||||
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7 | Checks and check stubs, 1940-1967 |
Series II: Riecker Family , 1848-1967 | |||||||||||
Subseries I: Correspondence 1868-1963 | |||||||||||
The correspondence is arranged chronologically and organized by topic. The subseries contains letters and documents covering a number of financial, civil and familial topics, such as Riecker’s Addition and the estate of various Riecker family members. | |||||||||||
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4 | 5 | Paul Riecker [German] 1868-1870 | |||||||||
4 | 6 | California real estate 1913-1944 | |||||||||
4 | 7 | Riecker's Addition 1914-1932 | |||||||||
4 | 8 | Riecker's Addition 1941-1946 | |||||||||
4 | 9 | Riecker's Addition 1951-1956 | |||||||||
4 | 10 | Riecker's Addition -- Office of the County Treasurer 1918-1945 | |||||||||
4 | 11 | Stocks and shares 1914-1932 | |||||||||
4 | 12 | Tax and Treasury Departments 1929-1932 | |||||||||
4 | 13 | Between family members 1929-1939 | |||||||||
4 | 14 | Between family members 1943-1965 | |||||||||
4 | 15 | Annie W. Riecker's estate 1937-1938 | |||||||||
4 | 16 | Annie W. Riecker's estate 1938-1941 | |||||||||
4 | 17 | Edna F. Riecker's estate 1945-1946 | |||||||||
4 | 18 | Annie W. Riecker's Memorial Lecture Series 1955-1967 | |||||||||
Subseries II: Family documents 1848-1963 | |||||||||||
The documents belonging to the Riecker family are arranged chronologically. The subseries contains documents corresponding to the Riecker family and estate, including Paul Riecker’s map created for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and birth and baptism certificates belonging to various Riecker family members. | |||||||||||
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4 | 19 | Birth and baptism certificates 1848-1928 | |||||||||
4 | 20 | Riecker's Addition real estate 1882-1938 | |||||||||
4 | 21 | Lilian E. Austin's estate 1912-1913 | |||||||||
4 | 22 | California real estate 1923, 1935-1942, 1944 | |||||||||
4 | 23 | Annie W. Riecker's estate 1937-1938 | |||||||||
4 | 24 | Annie W. Riecker's estate 1938-1941 | |||||||||
4 | 25 | Edna F. Riecker's [Sister Mary Winifred] estate 1937-1938 | |||||||||
4 | 26 | Edna F. Riecker's [Sister Mary Winifred] estate 1945-1946 | |||||||||
4 | 27 | Myrtle Riecker's estate 1960-1963 | |||||||||
4 | 28 | Inglewood, California cemetery family plot 1913-1918 | |||||||||
4 | 29 | Edna F. Riecker's [Sister Mary Winifred] U.S.C. commencement week booklets 1924-1929 | |||||||||
4 | 30 | Edna F. Riecker's [Sister Mary Winifred] U.S.C. diploma of graduation 1924-1929 | |||||||||
4 | 31 | Edna F. Riecker's [Sister Mary Winifred] higher education records 1924-1929 | |||||||||
4 | 32 | Annie W. Riecker's Memorial Lecture Series No.2 and No.4 1961-1963 | |||||||||
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6 | 1 | Map: Paul Riecker -- Atlas Sheet No.10 1877 | |||||||||
Subseries III: Financial 1920-1945 | |||||||||||
The financial documents and records relevant to the Riecker family are arranged chronologically and by document type. The subseries contain financial records related to the Riecker family as well as income tax and investment documents from various Riecker family members. | |||||||||||
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4 | 33 | Annie W. Riecker's insurance and statement of accounts 1920-1932 | |||||||||
4 | 34 | Stocks and shares notes 1927-1967 | |||||||||
4 | 35 | Annie W. Riecker's federal income tax returns 1928-1933 | |||||||||
4 | 36 | Insurance and real estate documents 1929-1936 | |||||||||
4 | 37 | Edna F. Riecker's [Sister Mary Winifred] individual income tax returns 1938-1945 | |||||||||
Subseries IV: Newspaper clippings 1887-1967 | |||||||||||
The newspaper clippings are arranged chronologically. The subseries contain published newspaper articles concerning the Riecker family and Riecker’s Addition. | |||||||||||
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4 | 38 | General 1887-1967 | |||||||||
4 | 39 | Riecker's Addition 1922-1931 | |||||||||
4 | 40 | Annie W. Riecker's Memorial Lecture Series 1960-1967 | |||||||||
Subseries V: Riecker's Addition 1882-1962 | |||||||||||
The documents and records relating to the Riecker’s Addition are arranged chronologically and by document type. The subseries contains documents and records relating to Riecker’s Addition, such as abstracts, indentures, tax receipts, and assessment notes about the real estate property. | |||||||||||
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5 | 1 | Abstracts copied from Pima County Recorder's Office 1882-1920 | |||||||||
5 | 2 | Indentures, abstracts and bargain sale deeds 1890-1912 | |||||||||
5 | 3 | Indentures, abstracts and bargain sale deeds 1913-1928 | |||||||||
5 | 4 | State, County and City taxes 1891-1924 | |||||||||
5 | 5 | State, County and City taxes 1925-1932 | |||||||||
5 | 6 | State, County and City taxes 1933-1949 | |||||||||
5 | 7 | Drafts of letters and proposals relating to the City Assessments of Street Improvements 1916-1929 | |||||||||
5 | 8 | Drafts of letters and proposals relating to the City Assessments of Street Improvements 1930-1938 | |||||||||
5 | 9 | Notes copied from the U.S. General Surveyor General's Office 1919 | |||||||||
5 | 10 | Sketches, maps and survey notes 1919-1930 | |||||||||
5 | 11 | City Assessments of Street Improvements 1919-1962 | |||||||||
5 | 12 | Property assessment documents 1920-1946 | |||||||||
5 | 13 | Property assessment notes 1928-1931 | |||||||||
5 | 14 | Contracts for sale of real estate property 1929-1943 | |||||||||
5 | 15 | City of Tucson Resolutions [1181, 1225, 1230] 1930-1931 | |||||||||
5 | 16 | City Assessments of Street Improvements notes 1939-1943 | |||||||||
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6 | 1 | Map: Survey by G. J. Roskruge -- Riecker's Addition to Tucson circa 1890 | |||||||||
6 | 1 | Map: Survey by G.J. Roskruge -- Riecker's Addition to Tucson circa 1890 | |||||||||
6 | 1 | Map: Riecker's Addition to Tucson circa 1900 | |||||||||
6 | 1 | Blueprint: Plat of Riecker's Addition 1917 | |||||||||
6 | 1 | Map: USGS, California and Arizona circa 1940 | |||||||||
6 | 1 | Map: Tucson 1956 | |||||||||
6 | 1 | Map: Carbon print of Riecker's Addition -- Large undated | |||||||||
6 | 1 | Map: Carbon print of Riecker's Addition -- Small undated |
Series III: Photographs and Audio/ Visual Media , 1878-1967 | |||||||||||
Subseries I: Portraits 1878-1936 | |||||||||||
The portraits are arranged chronologically and arranged by individual. The subseries contains a painted portrait of the Riecker children and various individual and group portraits of the Riecker family. | |||||||||||
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5 | 17 | Fred A. Riecker 1878-1936 | |||||||||
5 | 18 | Group portraits 1885-1928 | |||||||||
5 | 19 | Annie W. Riecker 1889-1934 | |||||||||
5 | 20 | Eugene Riecker circa 1910 | |||||||||
5 | 21 | Edna F. Riecker [Sister Mary Winifred] circa 1920 | |||||||||
5 | 22 | Annie W. Riecker Memorial Lecture Series 1955 | |||||||||
5 | 23 | Family album undated | |||||||||
5 | 24 | Riecker extended family undated | |||||||||
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6 | 2 | Painted portrait of Riecker children 1883 | |||||||||
Subseries II: Fred A. Riecker circa 1910-1965 | |||||||||||
The photographs of Fred A. Riecker are arranged chronologically and by subject type. The subseries contains a collection of photographs Fred A. Riecker made throughout his life. | |||||||||||
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5 | 25 | Railroad engineer circa 1910 | |||||||||
5 | 26 | S.S. Manhattan 1939 | |||||||||
5 | 27 | Downtown Tucson 1957-1967 | |||||||||
5 | 28 | Greater Tucson 1957-1964 | |||||||||
5 | 29 | University of Arizona 1964-1964 | |||||||||
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6 | 2 | "Water for nature's storehouse -- the forest; Apache." 1931 | |||||||||
6 | 2 | "Roads are the arteries of the forest; Apache." 1931 | |||||||||
6 | 2 | "National forest timber is harvested on a sustained yield basis; Sitgraves." 1931 | |||||||||
6 | 2 | "Head of cattle graze the national forest ranges of Arizona in 1931; Sitgraves." 1931 | |||||||||
Subseries III: Negatives 1964 | |||||||||||
The negatives in this subseries are of some of the photographs located in the Photographic and A/V series. | |||||||||||
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5 | 30 | Negatives 1964 | |||||||||
5 | 31 | Negatives undated | |||||||||
Subseries IV: Audio Recording Tapes 1959-1963 | |||||||||||
The audio recording tapes of Fred A. Riecker reading from his book, “Horatio Algebra and Chief One and One” are arranged in chronological order. | |||||||||||
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5 | 32 | Audio recording tape 1959 | |||||||||
5 | 33 | Audio recording tape 1963 | |||||||||
5 | 34 | Audio recording tape undated |