Campbell Family Photographs

Collection

Identifier: CP SPC 294

Scope and Content Note

This collection houses 345 images documenting the lives of members of the Campbell family in Prescott and Phoenix, Arizona in the early 20th century. Among the subjects depicted are individuals, family groups, homes, landscapes, cowboys, rodeos, camping, and travel.

Dates

Creation: 1880-1956
Creation: Majority of material found within 1900-1913

Creator

Campbell family (Creator, Family)

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.

Biographical Note

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Thomas Campbell was born in New York in May of 1842. He married Emma Herrick (1843-) and the couple had six children, of whom four survived to adulthood: Archie Earl (1866-1942), Homer (1872-1944), Mitchell Hugh (1875-1926), and Russell Herrick (1883-1943). The family settled in the Prescott area, where Thomas Campbell worked as a miner, between 1875 and 1879.

Archie Campbell married Levina McNary and the couple had at least four children: Pearl (1892-1893), Archie Earl (1894-1937), Ileese (Campbell) Alexander (1896-1979), and Ivy (1899-). Mitchell Campbell married Mary Jane Calkins (1881-1966) and the couple had four children: Helen (Campbell) Vensel (1896-1993), Hester Jewell (1898-1985), Gail (Campbell) Olea (1900-1988), and Hazel Verdeen (Campbell) Tipton (1903-1927). The Mosiers are related to this branch of the family: Helena (Campbell) Vensel's husband, George Wayne Vensel, was the son of William James and Alice (Mosier) Vensel. Homer Campbell married Mary Graney (1878-ca. 1928) and the couple had one surviving son, Thomas J. Russell Campbell married Margaret Sears and the couple had three children: Margaret Lucile (Campbell) Fetz (1911-), Russell Sears (1913-1997), and Thomas H. (1915-).

Full extent

345 Photograph(s)

Full extent

1.5 Linear Feet

Additional description

Abstract

Arrangement

This collection consists of three hundred and forty-five 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/.