Arizona State University was founded as the territorial normal school in 1885. This collection features photographs, documents, and audio and visual materials that chronicle the history of the institution. Additional materials include statistical lists and compilations of data for enrollment and building data. 

 

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Created2005-05-07
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An amateur silent motion picture documenting the Arizona State College Homecoming in 1954. Parade floats and the Sun Devil Band are featured on Central Avenue in Phoenix near the hotel Westward Ho. ASC President Grady Gammage and his wife Kathryn drive by in an open car. Displays and house decorations

An amateur silent motion picture documenting the Arizona State College Homecoming in 1954. Parade floats and the Sun Devil Band are featured on Central Avenue in Phoenix near the hotel Westward Ho. ASC President Grady Gammage and his wife Kathryn drive by in an open car. Displays and house decorations on the Tempe campus are presented. Alumni and staff are depicted eating at the Homecoming banquet.

DescriptionTwo videos presenting overviews of ASU history. ASU Generations is a twelve minute comprehensive history of ASU with vintage band music, still photography, video clips and no narration. ASU Generations: Homecoming is a fifteen minute history of Homecoming at ASU with script and narration by University Archivist Robert Spindler.
Created2004
DescriptionA video production of the Department of History featuring interviews with several department faculty and alumni.
Created1958
DescriptionPhotos primarily depicting advocacy efforts associated with the epic 1958 election initiative that renamed Arizona State College to Arizona State University.
ContributorsRice, Roy (Videographer)
ContributorsCreasman, James (Interviewer) / Hayden, Sallie D. (Interviewee)
Created1957 (year approximate)
Description

Part one of an audio recording of James Creasman's interview with Sallie Hayden, sister of political leader and Arizona statesman Carl Hayden, discussing her life with her brother and father Charles Trumbull Hayden.

ContributorsCreasman, James (Interviewer) / Hayden, Sallie D. (Interviewee)
Created1957 (year approximate)
Description

Part two of an audio recording of James Creasman's Arizona Statesman interview with Sallie Hayden, sister of political leader Carl Hayden, discussing her life with her brother and father Charles Trumbull Hayden.

ContributorsCreasman, James (Interviewer) / Edens Jr., Thomas Lee (Interviewee) / Henshaw, Hascall A. (Interviewee)
Created1957 (year approximate)
Description

Part one of an audio recording of James Creasman's Arizona Statesman interview with alumnus Tom Edens, Jr. about universities and the search for educated talent with Alumni Association President Hascall Henshaw.

ContributorsCreasman, James (Interviewer) / Edens Jr., Thomas Lee (Interviewee) / Henshaw, Hascall A. (Interviewee)
Created1957 (year approximate)
Description

Part two of an audio recording of James Creasman's Arizona Statesman interview with alumnus Tom Edens, Jr. about universities and the search for educated talent with Alumni Association President Hascall Henshaw.

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ContributorsRice, Roy C. (Film producer)
Created2005-05-05
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Motion picture of the 1952 Homecoming Parade on Mill Avenue.