Scope and Content Note
This collection houses photographs showing variety of subjects pertaining to Arizona, including views of desert flora and fauna, landscapes, military, mining, Native Americans, agriculture, buildings, street scenes, transportation, and people and places. Of particular interest is a rare photograph album, Appendix B: Photographs
, located in box 12/OV. This album was a supplement to the Report Based on Reconnaissance Investigation of Arizona Land Irrigable From the Colorado River. In 1922, the State Water Commissioner created the Arizona Engineering Commission to survey the state of Arizona and determine how much of the land could be irrigated by the Colorado River. The photographs and accompanying captions in the album are referred to in this report. This land survey was the precursor to the creation of the Arizona Colorado River Commission and the many legal battles that followed over the state's ownership of water rights. It is unknown how many of these albums were created.
Dates
- Creation: 1850s-1960s
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
Politician, ham radio operator, western art collector, aviator, and master photographer Barry Goldwater was an avid collector of Western Americana including the historic photographs in this collection. He loved the topography and romance of the West and sought to collect images to represent this ideal. Though considered a hobby, his collecting also served the greater purpose of documenting the history of Arizona. Goldwater even went so far as to place newspaper ads requesting those with historic photographs and ephemera to contact him for a possible donation or sale. He also opened his home to students and researchers interested in viewing his collection. Now publicly available, this collection along with his fine art photographs depicts an Arizona rarely seen.To attempt to show adequately the beauties of Arizona, either by pictures or by words, has always seemed to me a task too great for man. Neither the lens nor the written word can show the history or the romance that adds so much to the beauties with which this state has been endowed.
Barry M. Goldwater, Arizona Portraits (1940).
Full extent
16 Box(es)
Full extent
9 Linear Feet
Abstract
This collection houses photographs showing variety of subjects pertaining to Arizona, including views of desert flora and fauna, landscapes, military, mining, Native Americans, agriculture, buildings, street scenes, transportation, and people and places.
Arrangement
This collection consists of thirteen boxes.
Custodial History
Barry M. Goldwater donated these photographs to the Arizona Historical Foundation in the 1960s.
Provenance
The Arizona Historical Foundation transferred these materials to the Arizona Collection in 2012.
Geographic
- Arizona -- Photographs
- Fort Apache (Ariz.) -- Photographs
- Fort Grant (Ariz.) -- Photographs
- Grand Canyon (Ariz.) -- Photographs
- Southwest, New -- Photographs
- Theodore Roosevelt Dam (Ariz.) -- Photographs
Occupation
Topical
- Agriculture -- Arizona -- Phoenix -- Photographs
- Buildings -- Arizona -- Phoenix -- Photographs
- Deserts -- Arizona -- Photographs
- Deserts -- Southwest, New -- Photographs
- Indians of North America -- Photographs
- Mines and mineral resources -- Arizona -- Photographs
- Rodeos -- Arizona -- Phoenix -- Photographs
- Transportation -- Arizona -- Photographs
- Title
- Barry M. Goldwater Historic Photograph Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Earl Eisenhower and Erica Johnson in January 2007; Finding aid encoded by Catalina Oyler in June 2009.
- 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