A noted architect, urban planner, and artist, Paolo Soleri (1919-2013) was best known for Arcosanti, a planned community about 70 miles north of Phoenix. A native of Turin, Italy, he earned a Ph.D. in architecture from the Polytechnic University of Turin…
Park Central Mall opened in 1957, and quickly became the center of activity along Central Avenue, thanks to its proximity to some of Phoenix’s best neighborhoods and easy access from Central Avenue, Thomas Road and Indian School Road. As Phoenix quickly grew, the area around Park Central Mall…
Dr. Patricia Mariella worked at both the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona and the ASU American Indian Policy Institute. This collection will include the digital portion of her papers including her 1982 doctoral…
This is a collection of five exhibition catalogs from the 1980s and 1990s, long out of print. Included are the exhibition catalogs for China's Renaissance in Bronze: Robert H. Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes; Chinese Ceramics: The Wong Collection; Chinese Cloisonne: The Clague…
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…
Plan maps and profile charts from the USGS hydrogeographic survey of the Colorado River of the 1920s.
Explore the collection geographically with the Plans and Profiles of the Colorado…