[African American Military][WWII] African American U.S. Army soldiers photo archive from Fort Huachuca, Arizona, 1943 documenting the lived experience of segregated military training during World War II. The archive shows Black army soldiers in training for the 93rd Infantry Division, one of only two African American infantry divisions organized during.....
Omega Psi Phi fraternity photographs documenting various groups of African American fraternities taking part in a group performance in the American Southwest, April 1975. An unidentified Omega Psi Phi member appears to have assembled the group, with several images centering fraternity dance routines, banquet proceedings, and off-site travel that includes.....
Adams, Ansel. Photographs of the Southwest. 1976 volume presenting a selection of Ansel Adams’ landscape photographs created between 1928 and 1968 across the American Southwest, inscribed and signed by the photographer. Adams emerged as one of the most influential figures in twentieth century American photography and environmental advocacy, widely recognized.....
African American soldiers training in the segregated United States Army during World War II appear throughout this photograph archive documenting Black infantry troops stationed at major American training installations between 1943 and 1944. The soldiers pictured were likely members of or attached to the 92nd Infantry Division and the 93rd.....
[Environmental Policy] [Glen Canyon] Archive of federal and regional Colorado River Basin materials documenting how the river was successively treated as scenic terrain, engineered water infrastructure, and regulated recreation landscape across the mid twentieth century. The group centers on Glen Canyon and the broader basin as federal agencies, development planners.....
Gay travel guides published between 1978 and 2002 document the development of LGBTQ social spaces and travel networks during the late twentieth century. Printed guides of this kind served as practical tools for gay and lesbian travelers seeking safe environments and community venues in cities and tourist destinations. At a......
Internment camp copy of Flowering Plants and Ferns of Arizona from the Gila River Project School Libraries, preserving the school library apparatus of a War Relocation Authority camp for Japanese Americans incarcerated in Arizona during World War II. The stamp “Property of Gila River Project School Libraries / War Relocation.....
[WWII] [Japanese American] Japanese American incarceration archive, circa 1940s, documenting the personal lives of Japanese American detainees at Poston War Relocation Center in Arizona and Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming during World War II. Executive Order 9066 authorized the forced removal and incarceration of more than 120,000 persons of.....
[Chicano Literature] COLMAN, Hila. Chicano Girl. New York: William Morrow and Company. 1973. First Edition. 8vo; 191pp. The story follows a young Chicana girl in rural Arizona, after several bitter experiences in the Anglo world, she begins to learn about and appreciate the value of her own heritage. This coming.....
Japanese American family photo archive documenting the intersection of Nisei military service and wartime incarceration through a postwar visit to the Gila River Relocation Center in Arizona, circa 1945–1948. Executive Order 9066, signed on February 19, 1942, authorized the forced removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast, and Gila.....
Lesbian friendship group depicted in vernacular photographs dating from the 1940s documents relationships and social life among a circle of women traveling through Arizona and California during the mid twentieth century. Photographs of queer women from this period remain comparatively uncommon because same sex relationships were widely stigmatized and often.....
Early 1920s industrial field-work collection documenting the change from horse-drawn power to motor trucks, company crews, utility poles, and rough work roads that supported American electrification, lumber production, and regional infrastructure after World War I. The Phoenix Utility scenes place linemen and service vehicles within Carolina power construction, including the.....
Historic newspaper. New York Daily Tribune, June 8, 1861 issue, New York, NY. Page seven of this complete historic paper has an article entitled: "Horrible Indian Massacre at Stein's Peak, Arizona." In part: "...Nine men are missing, and, it is feared, have all been massacred, although there exists a hope.....
Indian Rights Association and unidentified photographers, archive of eighteen items dating from the early 1950s, documents community life, federal oversight, and economic activity in Window Rock, capital of the Navajo Nation. The materials engage issues of Indigenous rights, public health, education, and economic development during a period when federal Indian.....
[Transgender][Cross-Dressing] Renaissance: Gender Identity Services August 1977 newsletter recording the day to day workings of a Southern California trans support network providing resources on counseling, public speaking, and allied gay and sexual-rights organizations. This issue gives updates on Renaissance employees, counseling work, travel, and graduate study, while also printing notices.....
7-1/2"x9-1/2". Unmounted. Shows the rocky chasm of the Grand Canyon. Men and mules work their way down a narrow trail to the bottom. Photograph is in very good condition, with rich siena tones. In the lower center margin photo is labeled "'Jacobs Ladder' 2055 ft. below Rim." The photographer is.....
[Cold War] [U.S. Defense] Official U.S. Army intelligence and doctrinal publications on Soviet equipment and artillery produced at key Cold War moments when Soviet conventional forces, missile technology, and weapons systems were undergoing rapid modernization. These publications illustrate how American military institutions trained analysts and officers to identify Warsaw Pact.....
Photographer unknown. World War II photo album (1943–1944). This album documents the daily lives of American service members and their families across multiple locations, with a significant concentration of images in Hawaii shortly after the Attack on Pearl Harbor. The photographs record military personnel in uniform alongside wives, girlfriends, and.....
“No Shooting on These Premises,” issued 1920 in Phoenix, Arizona documents local efforts to regulate firearm use during the early years of Arizona statehood as urban growth and shifting legal environments reshaped public space. Following Arizona’s 1910 constitutional recognition of the right to bear arms, rapidly expanding cities such as.....
Bell, William. New Tracks in North America. 1869 stands as a primary narrative of post–Civil War railroad expansion and scientific exploration in the American West, written by a British physician who joined General William J. Palmer’s Kansas Pacific Railway survey expedition of 1868–1869. Traveling from St. Louis across Colorado, New.....
