Scope and Content Note
These photographs include portraits of many of the women interviewed for the Arizona Women's Heritage Project made at the time of their interview and copies of family photographs; contemporary views of the women's homes and cities capture their environment. Women depicted in the portraits include Edna Lucille Porch Brazill, Loretto Coles, Jane Wilson Drees, Elsie Alameda Rogers Dunn, Tillie Claire Mendelowitz Garten, Elizabeth Hovde, Fern Foltz Johnson, Clara Curtis Kimball, Irene McClellen King, Sallie Simms Lewis, Elsie Marie Gates McAlister, Nora Nevitt McKinney, Mary Carter Moeur, Winona Montgomery, Edna W. Phelps, and Mae Wills.
Copies of family photographs show the families of Edna Lucille Porch Brazill, Anne Pace Bush, Elizabeth Hovde, Fern Foltz Johnson, Clara Curtis Kimball, Elsie Marie Gates McAlister, Edna W. Phelps, Irma West, and Exie Zieser.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1900-1966
- Creation: 1981-1982
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
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.
Reproductions of images from this collection provided to patrons may be not published, reproduced, or exhibited in any fashion without the advanced, written permission of the Department of Archives and Manuscripts. Reproductions may not be placed in another archive or manuscript repository.
Historical Note
The Arizona Women's Heritage Project was sponsored by Arizona State University's Women's Studies Program, funded by the Arizona Humanities Council, and directed by Mary A. Rothschild and Linda L. Salmon. Its interviewers, including Rosemary Diaz, Pamela Hronek, Maria Hernandez, Deborah Peska, and Linda Salmon, conducted interviews in 1981 with women born before 1906 who had lived most of their adult lives in Arizona in order to gather information regarding the role of women in the state's history, focusing on growing up in Arizona, marriage and family, community building, and work for pay. The interviewees are representative of typical citizens rather than prominent community leaders and come from the city of Phoenix, the rural areas of the Salt River Valley, and the mining towns of Globe and Miami.
Full extent
1 Box(es)
Full extent
504 Photograph(s)
Abstract
These images document the lives of many of the women interviewed as part of the Arizona Women's Heritage Project. This project, which interviewed women born before 1906 who had lived most of their adult lives in Arizona, was designed to gather information concerning the role of women in the state's history. It focused on growing up in Arizona, marriage and family, community building, and work for pay. The photographs include portraits of many of the women made at the time of their interview, copies of family photographs, and contemporary views of the women's homes and cities.
Arrangement
The collection is ordered as received from the project. Items 1-20 exist only as prints. Items 22-282 are 35mm negatives with contact sheets; some have enlarged prints and some have slide copies. Items 282-504 exist only as slides. There are two items numbered 282, a negative and a slide.
Provenance
The Arizona Women's Heritage Project transferred these materials to the Arizona Collection in 1982.
- Title
- Arizona Women's Heritage Collection Photographs
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Mark Evans, Library Specialist and Richard Pearce-Moses, Curator of Photographs in February of 1991.
- Date
- 2011
- 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