Ocampo Family Papers

The Ocampo Family Papers contain blueprints, postal and greeting cards, certificates, correspondence, and publications documenting the Ocampo, Valencia, Alvarez, Quesada, and Ortega families of Wickenburg, Arizona from 1863 to 1900. It is divided into five series.

Series I: Personal Papers houses certificates, cards, legal documents, and newspaper articles. Details of the Ocampo family's daily lives can be found in such items as school records and assignments; civic and social documents; church records; and scrapbooks containing greeting cards, post cards, and recipes.

Series II: Business Papers houses bills, contracts, deeds, and claims documenting the Ocampo family's holdings in mining, ranching, and real estate.

Series III: Professional Papers houses employment records documenting the Ocampo and Quesada families. These papers include duty assignments and other papers showing Dora Quesada's work as a staff nurse in the Army Nurse Corp. and as a teacher for Tempe Elementary School District #3; awards and other materials showing Alice Quesada's career with the Social Security Administration; correspondence (including letters from Arizona politicians) showing Ron DeHart's application to the Congressional page program; papers showing Bernardo Quesada's work as a golf pro for La Quinta Country Club; papers showing Marcella Ocampo's career with the U.S. Postal Service (1927-1967); and papers showing Josephine (Quesada) Alvarez's work as an administrative assistant in the School of Public Health at UCLA for minority students.

Series IV: Miscellaneous consists primarily of newspaper articles compiled by the Quesadas from 1930 to 1990 documenting issues of personal interest about the Ocampo family. The series also contains a number of publications collected by the Quesadas dating from 1863, including Ramon Valencia's papers from the Arizona Pioneers Association and original property deeds and receipts from Valencia's first purchases in Arizona. Other documents include a variety of Mexican publications, including Mexican song books and Mañana magazine; pamphlets detailing the Quesada family's political activities, including reports on desegregation in Tempe and newsletters discussing the trial and conviction of several ministers charged with contempt in the New York area; Arizona Farm Workers papers; and correspondence from various candidates who the Ocampos supported in political races.

Series V: Architectural Plans houses a number of diagrams and blueprints showing the construction of the Quesada family home at Hancock Park in the southern part of Phoenix. Among these documents are topographical surveys of Hancock Park and the surrounding area and architectural surveys of the home itself.