Boydie Mercado, 2001

This collection houses minutes, correspondence, maps, photographs, a 1940 Ray-Sonora baseball team uniform, and a 1928 medallion of the Benito Juarez Logia #30 documenting Sonora, Arizona and the establishment of the Sonora, Arizona Historical Marker at the ASARCO-Ray Mine viewpoint on Arizona Highway 177 near the original town of Sonora. Also included are family records (including birth, death, marriage, baptism, employment, and school records dating back to 1875) and property deeds showing land in Mexico documenting the family of Sonora natives Virgina and Amador Flores. The collection is divided into five series.

Series I: Administrative Papers contains the organizations minutes. Discussions center on the importance of preserving the community's history and on the goals, objectives, and interests of the organization. The minutes range from 1967 to 1996.

Series II: Virginia and Amador Flores Family documents a family rooted in Sonora. Included in this series are birth and death certificates, marriage license records, religious records, 1920 Sonora, Arizona census information, and information about Virginia Granillo Flores and her family. These records date from 1875 to 1996.

Series III: Memorabilia includes a certificate from a Mexican fraternal organization, a marriage license, and land records from Mexico. These items date from 1924 to 1960.

Series VI: Miscellaneous houses copies of Sanborn maps of Sonora, Arizona, silk screen prints of townsites, information about the Sonora, Arizona Historical marker dedication, materials regarding town reunions, recollections of former residents, a medallion from a Mexican fraternal organization, and a Ray-Sonora Tigers baseball uniform. These items date from 1918 to 1999. Also included is Susana Campos Caldera's tribute to her brother, Albert Boydie Mercado, a popular baseball player in Sonora.

Series V: Photographs houses images of weddings, Mexican Independence Day celebrations, patriotic parades, baseball teams, school children, street scenes, social activities, and veterans who served in wars ranging from World War II to the Persian Gulf. These images date from 1941 to 1991.