Stuart family

The Stuart Family Papers consist of correspondence, records, printed materials, and newspaper clippings primarily documenting the business and political activities of William Plato Stuart and Della Tovrea Stuart from 1931 to 1967. The collection includes records from the various meat packing businesses that Edward Ambrose Tovrea founded, including the Tovrea Packing Company of Phoenix, Arizona. The collection has been divided into nine series.

This collection houses 334 photographs depicting Della and William Stuart, members of the Gillespie and Tovrea families, and Tovrea Castle. Also included are commercial portraits of Democratic party conventions and functions and studio portraits of state and national politicians. The majority of the images are silver gelatin prints, but tintypes and dye coupler prints are also present.