Railroads -- Arizona

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The Hugh and Berta Antrim Papers house yearbooks, maps, publications, correspondence, images, contracts, scrapbooks, and other materials primarily documenting Phoenix Union Station and its operation between 1923 and 1968. Other materials show the Shackelford and Antrim families and Hugh and Berta Antrim’s attendance at Phoenix Union High School and Phoenix College and their work on class reunions for both schools.

Abstract This collection consists primarily of photographs documenting the construction of the Arizona Eastern Railroad, including bridges, track, and buildings along the lines from Picacho (Cholla Mountain) to Chandler and from Calva to Pierdot. Most of these images show bridges, including the Gila River, Agua Fria, and San Carlos River bridges. Also included are images of Coolidge Dam taken when the Calva to Peridot line was moved due to the construction of the Coolidge Dam Reservoir and...

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The William Eugene Brooks Letters are comprised of personal and professional correspondence from 1897-1915. Although the bulk of the collection is personal correspondence from 1902-1907, there is also a small body of correspondence from Brooks' term as Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives during 1915.

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This photograph depicts a train station in Williams, Arizona.

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This collection houses 95 photographs showing locomotives, railway lines, and train stations around Arizona. Among the subjects depicted are train stations in Tempe and Mesa; the American Freedom Locomotive; the Santa Fe roundhouse being demolished, and trains and locomotives from the Southern Pacific, B & O, Santa Fe, Apache, and Arizona Magma Railroads. Also included are three images of tombstones in Sunset, Arizona.