Scope and Content Note
This collection houses seventeen photographs, primarily silver gelatin, showing Watson Pickrell and his family, the Granite Reef Dam and gatehouse, a concrete bridge over the Salt River in South Phoenix, and a billboard advertising the Palmcroft Addition in Phoenix.
Dates
- Creation: 1892-1929
Creator
Language of Materials
Material in English
Access Restrictions
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Copyright
Arizona State University does not own copyright to this collection. Distinctive Collections recognizes that it is incumbent upon the researcher to procure permission to publish information from this collection from the owner of the copyright.
Biographical Note
William Watson Pickrell was born in Mechanicsburg, Illinois on October 4, 1853. He married Frances Ulen (1862-1903) on October 22, 1888 and the couple had four children: Charles Ulen (1892-1962), William Watson (1894-1965), Dorothy Frances (1896-1971), and Kenneth Patrick (1899-1972). The family settled in Tempe in 1892, where Watson Pickrell was a member of the Board of Regents of the Tempe Normal School and served in the Territorial Legislature from 1905 to 1907. Watson Pickrell died on September 6, 1907 and is buried in Tempe's Double Butte Cemetery.
Watson Pickrell's brother William Smith Pickrell (1851-1924) also moved to the Arizona Territory with his wife, Georgiana (Keith) Pickrell (1859-1948), and children, John Keith (1885-1934), Abbie Beatrice (Pickrell) Isham (1887-1980), and William Smith Jr. (1896-1980).
Full extent
17 Photograph(s)
Full extent
0.1 Linear Feet
Abstract
This collection houses seventeen photographs, primarily silver gelatin, showing Watson Pickrell and his family, the Granite Reef Dam and gatehouse, a concrete bridge over the Salt River in South Phoenix, and a billboard advertising the Palmcroft Addition in Phoenix.
Arrangement
This collection includes seventeen photographs.
Other Finding Aids
All of the images described in this finding aid have been indexed in the Special Materials Index and can be searched using the interface at http://spmi.lib.asu.edu/.
Provenance
Archives and Special Collections acquired these photographs in 1993 (Accession #1993-00877).
- Title
- Watson Pickrell Photographs
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- 2014
- 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