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Artifacts Music Students Projects
Curriculum Natural History Visual Arts
Electronic Texts Oral Histories,
Remembrances & Interviews		  
Folk Arts People & Places  
Geography & Maps Personal & Family Histories  

 

Architecture  
Architecture and Urbanism of the U. S. Southwest
QTVR of the renovation of the historic Fox Theatre
Josias Joesler: An Architectural Eclectic
La Frontera: Cross-Cultural Vernacular Landscapes
Select panoramas and VR captures from the Vernacular Architecture Forum 2005
Spanish Colonial Mission Revival Architecture: St. Philip's In The Hills

 

Artifacts  
Balopticon Model C lantern projector, circa 1911, QTVR
The Burro '03, The UA's first yearbook
Constitution and By-Laws of the Arizona Audubon Society
75 Glass Lantern Slides, exotic birds (early 20th century)
75 Glass Lantern Slides, Prohibition Movement (early 20th century)
Louise Foucar's 1899 Histology

 

Curriculum  
La Cadena Que No Se Corta: The Unbroken Chain: Traditional Arts of Tucson's Mexican American Community
E-Company Marines Remembered
In the Steps of Esteban: Tucson's African American Heritage
Pascua Yaqui Connection
The Promise of Gold Mountain: Tucson's Chinese Heritage
Southern Arizona Folk Arts
Southwest Jewish Archives

 

Electronic Texts  
Borderman: the Memoirs of José María Ronstadt
Desert Documentry: The Spanish Years, 1767-1821
The Impact of the Frontier On a Jewish Family: The Bibos, by Floyd S. Fierman
Just Memories, by Roy P. Drachman, Sr.
The South Corner of Time: Hopi, Navajo, Papago, Yaqui Tribal Literature
The Burro '03, the first UA yearbook

 

Folk Arts  
Chicano Murals in Tucson
Cowboy and Western Art
Easter Eggs (and Paper and Wood) from Europe
Low Riders
Mexican-American Paperwork
Mexican Food in Tucson
Military Aircraft Nose Art: An American Tradition
Quilts
Southern Arizona Folk Arts

 

Geography & Maps  
Maps of the Pimería: Early Cartography of the Southwest
Southwestern Wonderland

 

Music  
Cowboy Songs and Singers: Of Lifeways and Legends
It's Rodeo Time in Old Tucson [sheet music 720K PDF]
Music of the Southwest
The Singing Ronstadts and Canciones de mi Padre

 

Natural History  
Hohokam Agave Project
Louise Foucar's 1899 Histology
QTVR of Kartchner Caverns
QTVR of Tumamoc Hill
Sabino Canyon: Our Desert Oasis

 

Oral Histories,
Remembrances & Interviews		  
An Interview With Luttie Wilson
E-Company Marines Remembered
In the Steps of Esteban: Tucson's African American Heritage
New American Community
The Promise of Gold Mountain: Tucson's Chinese Heritage
School on the Range: The Little Cowpuncher Roundup
Trek Of The Seven Sisters

 

People & Places  
Biographies of Prominent Chinese-American Tucsonans
Encounters: Our Columbus Legacy
Fred Harvey Collection : Traveling the Rails in Grand Style
In the Steps of Esteban: Tucson's African American Heritage
Judge Lawrence Huerta: Enriching Our Lives
Morris K. Udall -- A Lifetime of Service to Arizona and the United States
Old Pascua Photographs, ca. 1938
Pascua Yaqui Connection
Tubac Through Four Centuries
Words & Place: Native Literature of the American Southwest

 

Personal & Family Histories  
The Descendants of José Ignacio Moraga: Commander of the Tucson Presidio
Don Antonio Zepeda: A Story of Four Generations
Esther Don Tang's Family
Pentland-Salcido Family: A Sonoran Family History
Soza Family History: Antonio Campa Soza 1845-1915
Tucson's Ronstadt Family
The University Neighborhood A Personal Journey by Patricia Stephenson
Wong Check Kwong

 

Regional Histories  
Arizona Illustrated Segments Featuring Dr. James "Big Jim" Griffith (video clips)
Bisbee Deportation of 1917
Books By Edward Soza
Defining the Southwest
Desert Documentary: The Spanish Years, 1767-1821 by Kieran McCarty
E-Company Marines Remembered
Fred Harvey Collection: Traveling the Rails in Grand Style
Heritage of Loving Service: The Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in Tucson
Hooves and Rails: A History of the Tucson Street Railway 1897 - 1906
Little Cowpuncher: Rural School Newspaper of Southern Arizona
Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert
The Old Fort Lowell Neighborhood
Southwest Jewish Archives
Tom Marshall's Tucson
War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona 1942-1946

 

Student Projects  
Defining the Southwest: Student Projects
Huellas del Pasado... Footprints from the Past
Images of Binghampton: A History
looking into the westside: untold stories of the people 1900-1997
Music of the Southwest (look for essays within different sections)
Old Pascua Photos: Building a Kareeta
Through Our Parents' Eyes -- Student Projects Homepage

 

Visual Arts  
La Cadena Que No Se Corta:The Unbroken Chain --The Traditional Arts of Tucson's Mexican-American Community
St. Philip's In The Hills Fine Arts Collection (UA only)



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