Robert Trennert Photographs

Collection

Identifier: CP SPC 212

Scope and Content Note

This collection houses 95 photographs showing locomotives, railway lines, and train stations around Arizona. Among the subjects depicted are train stations in Tempe and Mesa; the American Freedom Locomotive; the Santa Fe roundhouse being demolished, and trains and locomotives from the Southern Pacific, B & O, Santa Fe, Apache, and Arizona Magma Railroads. Also included are three images of tombstones in Sunset, Arizona.

Dates

Creation: 1964-1981

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 Distinctive Collections, Arizona State University Library. Requests for permissions to publish, display, or redistribute information from this collection must be submitted via our online application.

Biographical Note

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Robert Anthony Trennert was born to Robert Anthony and Mabel Valentine (Chestnut) Trennert on December 15, 1937. He had one sister, Norma Lee (Trennert) Nelson (1940-2014). Trennert earned his Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1969 and worked as a History Professor at Arizona State University, where focused on the American West and Native American history. He wrote a number of books, including Alternative to Extinction: Federal Indian Policy and the Beginnings of the Reservation System, 1846-51 (1975), Indian Traders on the Middle Border: The House of Ewing, 1827-54 (1981), The Phoenix Indian School: Forced Assimilation in Arizona, 1891-1935 (1988), White Man's Medicine: Government Doctors and the Navajo, 1863-1955 (1998), and Riding the High Wire: Aerial Mine Tramways in the West (2001).