Preliminary Inventory of the Morley E. Fox Papers
Scope and Content Note
This collection houses correspondence, memoranda, clippings, news releases, hearings transcripts, publications, notes, reports, photographs, speeches, check registers, legislative documents, agendas, minutes, 2 phonograph albums, and mementos documenting water use, reclamation, irrigation, dam projects, the Central Arizona Project, and the Colorado River Basin Project. This collection has not been processed in full and can be viewed only by appointment. Contact Ask an Archivist for more information.
Dates
- Creation: 1964-1997
Language of Materials
Material in English
Access Restrictions
To view this collection, make an appointment at least five business days prior to your visit by contacting Ask an Archivist or calling (480) 965-4932. Appointments in the Wurzburger Reading Room at Hayden Library (rm. 138) on the Tempe campus are available Monday through Friday. Check the ASU Library Hours page for current availability.
Copyright
The Arizona Board of Regents retains copyright to this collection for and on behalf of the Arizona State University Library. Requests to publish, display, or redistribute information from this collection must be submitted via our online application.
Biographical Note
Morley Evans Fox was born in Stamford, Connecticut on April 17, 1919. He graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in Journalism (1947) and served in the U.S. Army during World War II and the Korean War. Before moving to the District of Columbia in 1964, Fox worked as the Arizona State Director for the National Beer Wholesalers Association, ran his family's ranch near Flagstaff, and edited the Arizona Cattle Growers' Association's magazine. From 1964 until his retirement in 1993, he worked for the Central Arizona Project and edited two newsletters (Watergram
and Reclamation News
) reporting on the Project. Fox died of Alzheimer's disease in Washington, D.C. on March 1, 2011.
Full extent
28 Box(es)
Full extent
39.58 Linear Feet
Abstract
This collection houses correspondence, memoranda, clippings, news releases, hearings transcripts, publications, notes, reports, photographs, speeches, check registers, legislative documents, agendas, minutes, 2 phonograph albums, and mementos documenting water use, reclamation, irrigation, dam projects, the Central Arizona Project, and the Colorado River Basin Project. This collection has not been processed in full and can be viewed only by appointment. Contact Ask an Archivist for more information.
Arrangement
This collection consists of twenty-eight boxes divided into two series:
- Series I: Accession #2004-03772
- Series II: Accession #2011-04479
Provenance
Reverend Donald and Elizabeth Fox donated these papers to the Arizona Collection in 2004 and 2011.
- Title
- Preliminary Inventory of the Morley E. Fox Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding guide encoded in English.
Repository details
Part of the Greater Arizona Collection Repository
Contact
Arizona State UniversityP.O. Box 871006
Tempe AZ 85287-1006 United States
(480) 965-4932
archives@asu.edu