Frank Hoy Photograph Collection

The Frank Hoy Photograph Collection contains images documenting Arizona that Hoy took between 1979 and 1995. Image formats include slides, prints, negatives, and digital. The collection has been organized in seventeen series arranged by theme and format.

Series I: Cities houses 35mm color slides depicting street scenes, businesses, buildings, and landscapes in numerous Arizona cities, including Alpine, Ajo, Ashfork, Benson, Bisbee, Chandler, Camp Verde, Casa Grande, Claypool, Cave Creek, Thatcher, Coolidge, Clifton, Douglas, Duncan, Flagstaff, Morristown, Florence, Mayer, Oatman, Globe, Gilbert, Gila Bend, Guadalupe, Goldfield, Holbrook, Kingman, Lake Havasu, Morenci, Miami, Nogales, Hoover Dam, Mohave County, Payson, Prescott, Pima, Patagonia, Phoenix, Safford, Scottsdale, Show Low, Snowflake, Taylor, Tempe, Wickenburg, Wilcox, Williams, Young, Yuma, Hayden, Month, Canyon De Chelly, Oracle, Concho, Seligman, Cottonwood, Sonoita, Strawberry, St. Johns, Tumacacori, Tombstone, Winslow, Benson, Bagdad, Coolidge, Hillside, Hannigan Meadow, Page, Fort Collins, McNary, Lake Powell, Springerville, Holbrook, Sierra Vista, Tortilla Flat, Wikieup, Quartzite, Winkleman, Miami, Pima, and Mesa.

Series II: Events houses 35mm color slides showing such events as the Coolidge Days parade, Arizona Days, 75th Anniversary, Phoenix parade, 4H, Alpine rummage sale, and other unidentified events.

Series III: Signs and Symbols houses 35mm color slides showing signs and symbols around Arizona that Hoy selected for exhibit purposes.

Series IV: Land and Landscapes houses 35mm color slides that Hoy selected for exhibit purposes.

Series V: Downtown houses 35mm color slides showing the downtown areas of Bisbee, Casa Grande, Clifton, Coolidge, Florence, Prescott, St. Johns, Tempe, Tucson, Ajo, Camp Verde, Holbrook, Hyde, Kingman, Phoenix, Wilcox, Winslow, and other Arizona cities.

Series VI: People houses 35mm color slides showing local people in Prescott, Winslow, Safford, St. John, Wilcox, Wickenburg, Springerville, and other Arizona cities.

Series VII: Night houses 35mm color slides showing the Tempe Fair, Wickenburg, Safford, Florence, Springerville, Wilcox, and other Arizona cities.

Series VIII: Slides to be Digitized houses 35mm color slides selected for digitization for exhibit purposes from the Night, People and Downtown Series. The majority date from the late 1980s.

Series IX: Personal houses 35mm color slides taken at a computer/photographic conference. Also included are images of flowers, pets, vacations, and still life.

Series X: City Council Members houses photographs of City Council Members in Bisbee, Benson, Safford, Prescott, Yuma, Wickenburg, Clifton, Nogales, Springerville, Florence, St. Johns, Snowflake, and Coolidge. The negatives corresponding to these photographs are housed in Box 25.

Series XI: Cities houses 3" x 5" and 4" x 6" color prints, contact sheets, and 8" x 10" black and white prints showing Pueblo Grande, Globe, Guadalupe, Holbrook, Mesa, Gilbert, Phoenix, Clifton, Miami, Florence, Flagstaff, Eloy, Coolidge, Bisbee, Ashfork, Prescott, Douglas, Thatcher, Williams, Yuma, Rio Salado, Tempe, Quartzite, Tucson, Tubac, Superior, Showlow, Safford, and Roosevelt. The negatives corresponding to these photographs are housed in Box 25.

Series XII: Events houses 3" x 5" and 4" x 6" color prints and a black and white contact sheet showing the Tempe Fair, the Florence Rodeo, the Florence Home Tour, a performance of Bye-Bye Birdie in Tempe, Juneteenth, Phoenix, 75 year Statehood, Phoenix, Mesa PowWow, and a children's classroom event. The negatives corresponding to these photographs are housed in Box 25.

Series XIII: Photo Essays houses 3" x 5" and 4" x 6" color prints and 8" x 10" black and white contact sheets showing the Old West Highway, the Tl Cam professional organization, Alpine Graduation, Guadalupe Cemetery, Tory Walker, a 7 year old boxer, Wedding Chapel, Phoenix, and Square Dancing. The negatives corresponding to these photographs are housed in Box 25.

Series XIV: Children's Workshop houses 3" x 5" and 4" x 6" color prints taken by children from the San Carlos Reservation, the Apache White River Reservation, Kid's Place, Phoenix, and Guadalupe, Arizona during a Walter Cronkite School Documentary Photo Workshop organized by Frank Hoy. The negatives corresponding to these photographs are housed in Box 25.

Series XV: Printed Images contains color photographs, black and white photographs, laser prints, and digital images (primarily scanned from 35mm slides, negatives, or photographs). Laser prints of images in the People series taken in Coolidge, Alpine, Powell, Florence, Yuma, Safford, and Tempe were printed by Frank Hoy.

Series XVI: Exhibit Photographs houses images used in displays that Archives and Special Collections created as part of their donor agreement with Hoy. Included are photographs from Snapshots: Children Documenting their Neighborhoods (which consists mostly of 3" x 5" and 4" x 6" photographs taken by children from Guadalupe, the White River Apache Reservation, the San Carlos Apache Reservation, and Kid's Place as part of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism Children's Workshop that spanned over 4 years), Downtown Series: Arizona Documentary Series (which consists of laser color prints and black and white photographs showing landscapes around Arizona), and Signs and Symbols: Arizona Documentary Series (which consists of laser color prints and black and white photographs of cities and rural areas around Arizona.

Series XVII: Negatives consists of black and white and color negatives with and without corresponding prints.