Central Arizona Project Association

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This collection houses research regarding Carl Hayden and the Central Arizona Project and materials showing August's career as an historian. This collection has not been processed in full and can be viewed only by appointment. Contact Archives and Special Collections for more information.

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The Central Arizona Project Association Records range from 1922 to 1974 and include correspondence, speeches, articles, reports, subject files, and scrapbooks. The bulk of the material ranges from 1946 to 1974 and documents the promotional efforts of the Association toward establishing the Central Arizona Project.

Abstract The Rich Johnson Papers contain diaries, notes, correspondence, memoranda, speeches, articles, press releases, newsclippings, bills, study reports, seminar texts, audio tapes, and subject files dating from 1935 to 1986. The bulk of the material dates from 1961 to 1984 and documents the efforts of a state level organization to obtain the passage of federal legislation to authorize, fund, and build a large reclamation project. It also shows attempts to fairly administer and allocate the...

Abstract The John J. Rhodes Papers consist of correspondence, reports, financial and travel records, and printed matter documenting Rhodes' Congressional career from 1953 to 1983. Significant portions of the collection show the Central Arizona Project, issues regarding Native Americans, campaign activities, legislation that Rhodes sponsored, water, energy policy, Watergate, and Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign. The collection has been divided into eighteen series. The first fifteen series...

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The Howard J. Smith Collection consists of correspondence, press releases and newsclippings concerning federal legislation of Colorado River water rights and the related lobbying activities of the Central Arizona Project Association (CAPA) from 1946-1954.