Included in this collection
These recordings consist primarily of Sunday morning religious radio programs hosted by Austin Coleman and sponsored by the Ragsdale Mortuary and the Valley Life Insurance Company. Many of these programs were recorded to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Broadcasts feature Christian and gospel music, advertisements for the Ragsdale mortuary and insurance businesses, and political and social commentary by Lincoln Ragsdale, Eleanor Ragsdale, and many others.
Meredith Harless interviews several individuals for KTAR radio in 1951. Interviewees include her husband, US Congressman Richard Harless; Arizona FBI Agent William Murphy; US Congressmen Harold “Porque” Patten (D-AZ), Walter S. Baring Jr. (D-NV), Wesley A. D'Ewart (R-MT), and Charley Willis, Executive Secretary of the Small Miners Association of Arizona; New York Yankees Joe DiMaggio and Casey Stengel; and actresses Susan Peters and Jane Winton.
This collection constitutes an online exhibit presented in PDF format for sustainability. “Moving Waters” documents the Greene family's Glen Canyon tourism businesses, including Canyon Tours, Inc., Cliff Dwellers Lodge, and Wahweap Lodge and Marina. Photographs depicting Glen Canyon before dam construction and the use of airboats on the Colorado River are also included.
This collection contains 16mm film reels documenting a variety of Central and Southern Arizona subjects. They were created by Paul S. Karr Productions and Kelly Karr.
This copy of Herb and Dorothy McLaughlin’s Phoenix, 1870-1970, in Photographs includes handwritten notations showing each photograph’s identifier in their photo collection. Full call numbers can be formed by adding the prefix “MCL” to the five- and six-digit numbers and the prefix “MCLMB” to identifiers beginning with “A."
In this interview, Roy Elson discusses James Folsom Moore and Fort Huachuca, Eugene Pulliam, Harry Rosenzweig, the Liberty Bank charter controversy, Don Bolles, Barry Goldwater, the Arizona vs. California Supreme Court case, and Governor Jerry Brown's visit to Arizona.
In these recordings, KCAC’s Bill Compton interviews Ted Mote of the Arizona branch of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Professor Morris Starsky.
This collection contains 16mm films, film clips, and slides depicting such topics as the Kretzer family, travel, and construction.