Scope and Content Note
This collection consists of 91 photographs documenting the Bowers and McAndrews families, including John Dewitt Bowers, Helen (Thomas) Bowers, Jewell (Hammontree) Patterson, and Ruby (Bowers) McAndrews. Many of these images document Ruby McAndrews' life and career, including her work at the Indian Tuberculosis Sanitarium, pageants and plays, and Native American crafts. Among the locations depicted are Phoenix, Prescott, and Poland, Arizona.
Dates
- Creation: 1904-circa 1950, Undated
Creator
- Bowers family (Family)
Language of Materials
Material in English
Access Restrictions
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Copyright
Arizona State University does not own the copyright to this collection. We recognize that it is incumbent upon the researcher to procure permission to publish information from this collection from the owner of the copyright.
Biographical Note
Ruby Ethel Bowers was born at Limestone Prairie, Oklahoma on April 19, 1903, the daughter of John DeWitt Bowers and Tilitha Letha
Anderson. She was one of eight children, including Ola Pearl (Bowers) Johnston (1894-1963), Nora Edna (Bowers) Bartlett (1896-1982), William Polk Bowers (1904-1907), John DeWitt Bowers (1906-1964), Fred Edward Bowers (1912-1981), Jewel Elizabeth Bowers (1916-1916), and Stella Mildred (Bowers) Carney (1918-2000). The family moved to the Arizona Territory in 1904 and lived in a number of locations in the state, leaving briefly for visits to Oregon and Washington State.
Ruby Bowers graduated from Phoenix Union High School in 1921 and also attended the Gregg Commercial School. She married Robert Clair McAndrew in 1929 and the couple settled in Phoenix. Ruby McAndrew worked at the Indian Tuberculosis Sanitarium and at the Indian General Hospital from 1949 to 1974. In 1974, Ruby and her husband relocated to Prescott, celebrating their golden wedding anniversary there in 1979. Robert McAndrew died in 1982 and Ruby McAndrew followed in 2007.
Full extent
1 Box(es)
Full extent
0.25 Linear Feet
Abstract
This collection consists of 91 photographs documenting the Bowers and McAndrews families, including John Dewitt Bowers, Helen (Thomas) Bowers, Jewell (Hammontree) Patterson, and Ruby (Bowers) McAndrews. Many of these images document Ruby McAndrews' life and career, including her work at the Indian Tuberculosis Sanitarium, pageants and plays, and Native American crafts. Among the locations depicted are Phoenix, Prescott, and Poland, Arizona.
Arrangement
This collection consists of ninety-one photographs in one box.
Provenance
The Arizona Collection acquired these photographs in 1990 (Accession #1990-00009A).
- Title
- Bowers Family Photographs
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Richard Pierce-Moses.
- Date
- 2015
- 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