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Pathway into and out of Walnut Canyon National Monument, located about 10 miles from Flagstaff, Arizona

Pathway into and out of Walnut Canyon National Monument, located about...

The canyon's rim elevation is 6,690 feet; its floor is 350 ft. lower. A long, looping trail leads to 25 cliff-dwelling rooms constructed by the Sinagua, a pre-Columbian cultural group that lived in the gorge fr... More

Scene in Canyon de Chelly (pronounced duh-SHAY), a vast park on Navajo tribal lands, near the town of Chinle in northeastern Arizona that is now a U.S. national monument

Scene in Canyon de Chelly (pronounced duh-SHAY), a vast park on Navajo...

Reflecting one of the longest continuously inhabited landscapes of North America, the park preserves ruins of the indigenous tribes that lived in the area, from the Ancestral Puebloans (formerly known as Anasaz... More

Aerial view of Lake Powell, near Page, Arizona

Aerial view of Lake Powell, near Page, Arizona

The lake is a reservoir, created by the flooding of Glen Canyon by the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River, straddles the border between Arizona and Utah. It is a popular recreation and vacation spot visited ... More

A massive cotton harvester at work outside Safford, in eastern Arizona

A massive cotton harvester at work outside Safford, in eastern Arizona

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Mural in an Arizona city one can identify by looking at this creation

Mural in an Arizona city one can identify by looking at this creation

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: Titus Castanza. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith... More

Aerial view of the Phoenix, Arizona, area

Aerial view of the Phoenix, Arizona, area

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Part of the mountain lion enclosure at an old "tourist trap" zoo, a roadside-attraction remnant at what is now the isolated ghost town of Two Guns along old U.S. Highway 66 in northeastern Arizona

Part of the mountain lion enclosure at an old "tourist trap" zoo, a ro...

The zoo was the brainstorm of Harry "Two Guns" Miller, who grew out his hair and took on the persona of "Chief Crazy Thunder" when he greeted visitors. There is still a Two Guns exit from the high-speed Interst... More

Near Camp Verde, Arizona, one finds vestiges of stone dwellngs built between approximately 1100 and 1425 AD and used by the Sinagua people, a pre-Columbian culture closely related to the Hohokam and other indigenous peoples of the southwestern United States. Called Montezuma Castle in their entirety, they are now a U.S. National Historic Monument

Near Camp Verde, Arizona, one finds vestiges of stone dwellngs built b...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Sunset in the low mountains west of Phoenix, Arizona, near Morrisey

Sunset in the low mountains west of Phoenix, Arizona, near Morrisey

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Corner of an eclectic gift shop and convenience store mere feet off historic U.S. Route 66 in Seligman, Arizona

Corner of an eclectic gift shop and convenience store mere feet off hi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This stretch of the onetime "Mother Road" two-lane highway from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, still exists north of ... More

Welcoming mural in downtown Yuma, Arizona

Welcoming mural in downtown Yuma, Arizona

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Historical re-enactors at the Old Tombstone theme park and movie set help vistors visualize the raucous days of the 1880s in Tombstone, when this dusty patch of southeastern Arizona was so violent, it was known as "The Town Too Tough to Die." Pictured are, left to right, owner Lee McKechnie, Udaya Sun, Jim Kolegraf, Leva Clark, and Jon Mossholder

Historical re-enactors at the Old Tombstone theme park and movie set h...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Remains of the homes of ancient cliff dwellers in Canyon de Chelly (pronounced duh-SHAY), a vast park on Navajo tribal lands in northeastern Arizona, near the town of Chinle, that is now a U.S. national monument

Remains of the homes of ancient cliff dwellers in Canyon de Chelly (pr...

Reflecting one of the longest continuously inhabited landscapes of North America, the park preserves ruins of the indigenous tribes that lived in the area, from the Ancestral Puebloans (formerly known as Anasaz... More

Scene in the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum outside Tucson, Arizona

Scene in the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum outside Tucson, Arizona

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Scene in Canyon de Chelly (pronounced duh-SHAY), a vast park on Navajo tribal lands in northeastern Arizona that is now a U.S. national monument

Scene in Canyon de Chelly (pronounced duh-SHAY), a vast park on Navajo...

Reflecting one of the longest continuously inhabited landscapes of North America, the park preserves ruins of the indigenous tribes that lived in the area, from the Ancestral Puebloans (formerly known as Anasaz... More

Scene at Gammons Gulch, a recreated Old West town and the site of dozens of movies, commercial shoots and the like in the remote desert north of Benson in Cochise County, Arizona. The town was built piece by piece and with donations of vintage artifacts beginning in 1972 by Jay Gammons, a onetime security man at a movie studio in Tucson, northwest of here

Scene at Gammons Gulch, a recreated Old West town and the site of doze...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Fertile fields (thanks to irrigation) produce bountiful yields throughout the surrounding desert outside Yuma in the far-southwest corner of Arizona, close to both Mexico and California. More than 175 crops are grown year-round in Yuma County, which is regarded as the winter lettuce capital of the world, supplying an astonishing 90 percent of the nation's leafy vegetables between November and March

Fertile fields (thanks to irrigation) produce bountiful yields through...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

The Hill Top Motel in Kingman, a small city at the junction of the old, historic U.S. 66 highway and the modern, high-speed Interstate-40 superhighway in northwestern Arizona, may once have had the "best view in Kingman," but it was shuttered and empty at the time of this photo in lat 2018. Kingman promotes the former--the old two-lane highway from the glory days of family cross-country travel, to nostalgic visitors

The Hill Top Motel in Kingman, a small city at the junction of the old...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Aerial view of a portion the water and surroundings of Lake Mead, created by the construction of nearby Hoover Dam, which straddles the Arizona-Nevada border

Aerial view of a portion the water and surroundings of Lake Mead, crea...

The dam harnessed the Colorado River to create the widespread reservoir in the early 1930s. Lake Mead became the locus of a widespread national recreation area, popular with boaters and fishers. Title, date and... More

Roiling cumulus clouds race across the rocky landscape ner Sedona, in nothern Arizona

Roiling cumulus clouds race across the rocky landscape ner Sedona, in ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Scene at Gammons Gulch, a recreated Old West town and the site of dozens of movies, commercial shoots and the like in the remote desert north of Benson in Cochise County, Arizona. The town was built piece by piece and with donations of vintage artifacts beginning in 1972 by Jay Gammons, a onetime security man at a movie studio in Tucson, northwest of here

Scene at Gammons Gulch, a recreated Old West town and the site of doze...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Aerial view of one of many high-speed highways that now snake through, and around, Phoenix, Arizona, one of America's fastest-growing cities

Aerial view of one of many high-speed highways that now snake through,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Saguaro cacti in the Sonoran Desert National Monument, actually a large park rather than traditional monument, in Maricopa and Pinal counties in central Arizona, near Gila Bend. Created by presidential proclamation in 2001, the 496,400 acre-monument is managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management

Saguaro cacti in the Sonoran Desert National Monument, actually a larg...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Peach-faced lovebirds enjoy a free meal in the courtyard of a home in Paradise Valley, neighboring Phoenix in Maricopa County, Arizona

Peach-faced lovebirds enjoy a free meal in the courtyard of a home in ...

Also called "rosy-faced lovebirds," the birds are native to arid regions in southwestern Africa such as the Namib Desert. Males and females of the species, adored for their sleep position in which they sit side... More

A two-lane highway curls around a rugged mountainside near Page, Arizona

A two-lane highway curls around a rugged mountainside near Page, Arizo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Scene along old U.S. highway 66 in Mohave County, Arizona. Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1930s through th 50s, has been subsumed by the nation's high-speed interstate highways. But a bending portion of the old, two-lane highway that survives in western Arizona still draws curiosity-seekers and nostalgia buffs

Scene along old U.S. highway 66 in Mohave County, Arizona. Much of Rou...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Pete's, a vintage gas station in Williams, Arizona, a town of just 3,000 or so residents but a well-known place among visitors from around the world

Pete's, a vintage gas station in Williams, Arizona, a town of just 3,0...

Known as "The Gateway to the Grand Canyon" 60 miles to the north, it is the southern terminus of the scenic railroad that takes tourists there and (in 1984) was also the last town on old Route 66 to be bypassed... More

A guide prepares mules for their trek, with human visitors aboard, down a steep and winding trail into Grand Canyon National Park in northern Arizona

A guide prepares mules for their trek, with human visitors aboard, dow...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Crane meets lizard at the Phoenix Zoo in Phoenix, Arizona

Crane meets lizard at the Phoenix Zoo in Phoenix, Arizona

Opened in 1962, the Phoenix Zoo is the largest privately owned, nonprofit zoo in the United States. The zoo was founded by Robert Maytag, a member of the family that owned a famous appliance company. It display... More

Granite Creek, fed by nearby Lake Watson in the "Granite Dells" exposed bedrock and tinted layers of estimated-1.4-billion-year-old igneous-rock formations north of Prescott, Arizona

Granite Creek, fed by nearby Lake Watson in the "Granite Dells" expose...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Scene in Canyon de Chelly (pronounced duh-SHAY), a vast park on Navajo tribal lands in northeastern Arizona that is now a U.S. national monument

Scene in Canyon de Chelly (pronounced duh-SHAY), a vast park on Navajo...

Reflecting one of the longest continuously inhabited landscapes of North America, the park preserves ruins of the indigenous tribes that lived in the area, from the Ancestral Puebloans (formerly known as Anasaz... More

Low, ranch-house-style home in Sun City, a historic suburb of Phoenix, Arizona

Low, ranch-house-style home in Sun City, a historic suburb of Phoenix,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Sun City, which likes to call itself "The Original Fun City," was an entire community built for retirees, 55 years old and older, and ... More

Fallen superhero mural art in downtown Phoenix, Arizona

Fallen superhero mural art in downtown Phoenix, Arizona

Mural artist: name not given. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the... More

Scene at the Golf Club at Dove Mountain in the town of Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona. Vistas of the Tortolita Mountains highlight several points on the course

Scene at the Golf Club at Dove Mountain in the town of Marana, north o...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

A saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona

A saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Aerial view of the Tucson, Arizona, area, with a focus on farm fields north of the city, near Marana. Such fields are made possible only because of irrigation canals, found throughout central and southern Arizona, that provide life-giving water to crops in the otherwise parched and forbidding landscape

Aerial view of the Tucson, Arizona, area, with a focus on farm fields ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Aerial view of the Tucson, Arizona, area, with a focus on the neighorhoods to the northeast of town, beneath the Tortolita Mountains

Aerial view of the Tucson, Arizona, area, with a focus on the neighorh...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Press bulletin (Poston, Ariz.), December 20, 1942

Press bulletin (Poston, Ariz.), December 20, 1942

Daily (except Monday) Vol. 3, no. 30 (Aug. 26, 1942)-v. 8, no. 9 (Dec. 20, 1942). Sometimes published as: Official daily press bulletin. Japanese camp papers. Also issued on microfilm from the Library of Congre... More

Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building No. 15 (House), 30662 Wellton-Mohawk Drive, Wellton, Yuma County, AZ

Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building No. 15 (House), 30662 Wellt...

Significance: Building 15, as part of the former Wellton Government Camp, is associated with the Wellton-Mohawk Division of the Gila Project. Construction of the Wellton-Mohawk irrigation system began in 1949 a... More

Mexican migrant labor in Arizona in unity there is strength : la union hace la fuerza /

Mexican migrant labor in Arizona in unity there is strength : la union...

"Arizona Two Hundred Forum, 1975-76." Explanatory text on verso not recorded on videodisc. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona

1915 - Dec 1949 Vol. 2. 48 Sheet(s). 002. Arizona fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fi... More

[Grand Canyon, Arizona]. Glass transparencies. Public domain photograph.

[Grand Canyon, Arizona]. Glass transparencies. Public domain photograp...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mountain cliff view, natural rocky landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hoover Dam, Lower Portal Access Road, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Hoover Dam, Lower Portal Access Road, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, C...

Significance: It was an important feature in the construction of Hoover Dam. The road provided access to the bottom of Black Canyon at a point about one mile downstream from the dam construction site. Here a co... More

San Carlos Irrigation Project, Ashurst-Hayden Dam, Dam Tender's House, Gila River, T4S R11E S7, Coolidge, Pinal County, AZ

San Carlos Irrigation Project, Ashurst-Hayden Dam, Dam Tender's House,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Preciado House, 148-150 West Kennedy Street , Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Preciado House, 148-150 West Kennedy Street , Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Significance: One of the oldest houses in the Barrio, this simple adobe row house exhibits the recessed doors and flat roof characteristic of early Sonoran structures. It is set flush with the street and conti... More

Theodore Roosevelt Dam, Power Plant, Salt River, Tortilla Flat, Maricopa County, AZ

Theodore Roosevelt Dam, Power Plant, Salt River, Tortilla Flat, Marico...

Survey number: HAER AZ-6-A Building/structure dates: 1906- 1908 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 100001454

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stable, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise County, AZ

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stable, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise Co...

Survey number: HABS AZ-210-D Building/structure dates: 1916 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: after. 1935- before. 1945 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: after. 1950- before. 1955 Subseq... More

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stable, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise County, AZ

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stable, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise Co...

Survey number: HABS AZ-210-D Building/structure dates: 1916 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: after. 1935- before. 1945 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: after. 1950- before. 1955 Subseq... More

Faraway Ranch, Stafford-Riggs Cabin, Willcox, Cochise County, AZ

Faraway Ranch, Stafford-Riggs Cabin, Willcox, Cochise County, AZ

Significance: The Stafford-Riggs Cabin is historically significant as one of the first homestead dwellings in the Chiricahua Mountains vicinity. Architecturally, it illustrates the construction techniques and ... More

Grand Canyon National Park Roads, Village Loop Retaining No. 1, North side of Village Loop Drive, Grand Canyon Village, Coconino County, AZ

Grand Canyon National Park Roads, Village Loop Retaining No. 1, North ...

Significance: This retaining wall is representative of rustic style road structures constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps and other depression-era public works agencies within the depression-era public... More

San Carlos Irrigation Project, Ashurst-Hayden Dam, Gila River, T4S R11E S7, Coolidge, Pinal County, AZ

San Carlos Irrigation Project, Ashurst-Hayden Dam, Gila River, T4S R11...

Survey number: HAER AZ-50-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Arizona, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Childs-Irving Hydroelectric Project, Irving System, Inverted Siphon, Forest Service Road 708/502, Camp Verde, Yavapai County, AZ

Childs-Irving Hydroelectric Project, Irving System, Inverted Siphon, F...

Survey number: HAER AZ-65-D Building/structure dates: 1915 Initial Construction

Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building No. 16 A-B (Duplex), 30652 & 30654 Wellton-Mohawk Drive, Wellton, Yuma County, AZ

Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building No. 16 A-B (Duplex), 30652 ...

Significance: Building 16 A-B, as part of the former Wellton Government Camp, is associated with the Wellton-Mohawk Division of the Gila Project. Construction of the Wellton-Mohawk irrigation system began in 19... More

Bartlett Dam, Verde River, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ

Bartlett Dam, Verde River, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ

Significance: Bartlett Dam was the first multiple arch dam constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation. It was also the highest multiple arch dam constructed in the United States at the time of its completion. Su... More

Bartlett Dam, Verde River, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ

Bartlett Dam, Verde River, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ

Significance: Bartlett Dam was the first multiple arch dam constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation. It was also the highest multiple arch dam constructed in the United States at the time of its completion. Su... More

Bartlett Dam, Verde River, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ

Bartlett Dam, Verde River, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ

Significance: Bartlett Dam was the first multiple arch dam constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation. It was also the highest multiple arch dam constructed in the United States at the time of its completion. Su... More

Bartlett Dam, Verde River, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ

Bartlett Dam, Verde River, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ

Significance: Bartlett Dam was the first multiple arch dam constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation. It was also the highest multiple arch dam constructed in the United States at the time of its completion. Su... More

Bartlett Dam, Verde River, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ

Bartlett Dam, Verde River, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ

Significance: Bartlett Dam was the first multiple arch dam constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation. It was also the highest multiple arch dam constructed in the United States at the time of its completion. Su... More

Bartlett Dam, Verde River, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ

Bartlett Dam, Verde River, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ

Significance: Bartlett Dam was the first multiple arch dam constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation. It was also the highest multiple arch dam constructed in the United States at the time of its completion. Su... More

Grand Canyon National Park Roads, Village Loop Headwall No. 2, Grand Canyon Village, Coconino County, AZ

Grand Canyon National Park Roads, Village Loop Headwall No. 2, Grand C...

Significance: This headwall is representative of rustic style road structures constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps and other depression-era public works agencies within the western national parks duri... More

Sacaton Hospital Residence, 315 West Casa Blanca Road, Sacaton, Pinal County, AZ

Sacaton Hospital Residence, 315 West Casa Blanca Road, Sacaton, Pinal ...

Significance: It is associated with the US Army's administration of health-related services for Indians in the area from 1875-1935. It was built ca. 1919 as physician's quarters for Sacaton's first health care ... More

Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building No. 5 (House), 30641 Wellton-Mohawk Drive, Wellton, Yuma County, AZ

Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building No. 5 (House), 30641 Wellto...

Significance: Building 5, as part of the former Willton Government Camp, is associated with the Wellton-Mohawk Division of the Gila Project. Construction of the Wellton-Mohawk irrigation system began in 1949 an... More

Hoover Dam, Spanning Colorado River at Route 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Hoover Dam, Spanning Colorado River at Route 93, Boulder City, Clark C...

Significance: It is a National Historic Landmark, an American Civil Engineering Landmark, and the focus of an historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The dam was constructed betwee... More

Hoover Dam, Spanning Colorado River at Route 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Hoover Dam, Spanning Colorado River at Route 93, Boulder City, Clark C...

Significance: It is a National Historic Landmark, an American Civil Engineering Landmark, and the focus of an historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The dam was constructed betwee... More

San Francisco Canal, Between Fortieth & Weir & Thirty-sixth Street & Roeser Road, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ

San Francisco Canal, Between Fortieth & Weir & Thirty-sixth Street & R...

Survey number: HAER AZ-8 Building/structure dates: 1871 Initial Construction

San Francisco Canal, Between Fortieth & Weir & Thirty-sixth Street & Roeser Road, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ

San Francisco Canal, Between Fortieth & Weir & Thirty-sixth Street & R...

Survey number: HAER AZ-8 Building/structure dates: 1871 Initial Construction

Phoenix Indian School, Dairy-Milking Shed, Northeast Corner of Central Avenue & Indian School Road, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ

Phoenix Indian School, Dairy-Milking Shed, Northeast Corner of Central...

Significance: The Dairy is one of the two buildings remaining from the earliest phase of building on the site, and is one of the last surviving records of the vocational training activities on the site that pre... More

Railroad Depot, Grand Canyon, Coconino County, AZ

Railroad Depot, Grand Canyon, Coconino County, AZ

Survey number: HABS AZ-11 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000337

Tucson Plant Material Center, Machinery Shed, 3241 North Romero Road, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Tucson Plant Material Center, Machinery Shed, 3241 North Romero Road, ...

Survey number: HABS AZ-159-A Building/structure dates: 1936 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1938 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1963 Subsequent Work

Ash Avenue Bridge, Spanning Salt River at Foot of Ash Avenue, Tempe, Maricopa County, AZ

Ash Avenue Bridge, Spanning Salt River at Foot of Ash Avenue, Tempe, M...

Significance: Constructed over the Salt River on the Pheonix-Tempe Highway, the Ash Avenue Bridge is the first concrete multi-arch bridge erected in Arizona. The structure is comprised of eleven spans of two-ri... More

Ash Avenue Bridge, Spanning Salt River at Foot of Ash Avenue, Tempe, Maricopa County, AZ

Ash Avenue Bridge, Spanning Salt River at Foot of Ash Avenue, Tempe, M...

Significance: Constructed over the Salt River on the Pheonix-Tempe Highway, the Ash Avenue Bridge is the first concrete multi-arch bridge erected in Arizona. The structure is comprised of eleven spans of two-ri... More

Ash Avenue Bridge, Spanning Salt River at Foot of Ash Avenue, Tempe, Maricopa County, AZ

Ash Avenue Bridge, Spanning Salt River at Foot of Ash Avenue, Tempe, M...

Significance: Constructed over the Salt River on the Pheonix-Tempe Highway, the Ash Avenue Bridge is the first concrete multi-arch bridge erected in Arizona. The structure is comprised of eleven spans of two-ri... More

Ash Avenue Bridge, Spanning Salt River at Foot of Ash Avenue, Tempe, Maricopa County, AZ

Ash Avenue Bridge, Spanning Salt River at Foot of Ash Avenue, Tempe, M...

Significance: Constructed over the Salt River on the Pheonix-Tempe Highway, the Ash Avenue Bridge is the first concrete multi-arch bridge erected in Arizona. The structure is comprised of eleven spans of two-ri... More

Faraway Ranch, Swimming Pool, Willcox, Cochise County, AZ

Faraway Ranch, Swimming Pool, Willcox, Cochise County, AZ

Survey number: HABS AZ-139-M Public domain photograph of swimming pool, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stable, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise County, AZ

Fort Huachuca, Cavalry Stable, Clarkson Road, Sierra Vista, Cochise Co...

Survey number: HABS AZ-210-E Building/structure dates: 1916 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1941 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1951-1955 Subsequent Work National Register of Histo... More

Wall in the Grand Cañon, Colorado River / T.H. O'Sullivan, phot.

Wall in the Grand Cañon, Colorado River / T.H. O'Sullivan, phot.

Photograph showing erosion on the steep rock walls of the Grand Canyon. Plate no. 11. Originally published: Photographs showing landscapes, geological, and other features of portions of the western territory o... More

Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building No. 1 (House), 30601 Wellton-Mohawk Drive, Wellton, Yuma County, AZ

Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building No. 1 (House), 30601 Wellto...

Significance: Building 1, as part of the former Willton Government Camp, is associated with the Wellton-Mohawk Division of the Gila Project. Construction of the Wellton-Mohawk irrigation system began in 1949 an... More

Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building No. 10 A-B (Duplex), 30691 & 30693 Wellton-Mohawk Drive, Wellton, Yuma County, AZ

Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building No. 10 A-B (Duplex), 30691 ...

Significance: Building 10 A-B, as part of the former Willton Government Camp, is associated with the Wellton-Mohawk Division of the Gila Project. Construction of the Wellton-Mohawk irrigation system began in 19... More

Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building No. 10 A-B (Duplex), 30691 & 30693 Wellton-Mohawk Drive, Wellton, Yuma County, AZ

Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building No. 10 A-B (Duplex), 30691 ...

Significance: Building 10 A-B, as part of the former Willton Government Camp, is associated with the Wellton-Mohawk Division of the Gila Project. Construction of the Wellton-Mohawk irrigation system began in 19... More

Lee's Ferry, Old Spencer Cabin, U.S. Route Alternate 89, Page, Coconino County, AZ

Lee's Ferry, Old Spencer Cabin, U.S. Route Alternate 89, Page, Coconin...

Survey number: HABS AZ-58-E Building/structure dates: 1874 Initial Construction

Pinon Boarding School, Staff Quarters, Navajo Route 41, North of Navajo Route 4, Pinon, Navajo County, AZ

Pinon Boarding School, Staff Quarters, Navajo Route 41, North of Navaj...

Survey number: HABS AZ-162-B Public domain photograph - historical image of Arizona, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Phoenix Indian School, Memorial Hall, Northeast Corner of Central Avenue & Indian School Road, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ

Phoenix Indian School, Memorial Hall, Northeast Corner of Central Aven...

Significance: Memorial Hall was the second major building on the site to employ Mission Revival style, and like the first example, the Dining Hall, it was carried out in red brick. It was also sited, parallel ... More

Tucson Plant Material Center, 3241 North Romero Road, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Tucson Plant Material Center, 3241 North Romero Road, Tucson, Pima Cou...

Survey number: HABS AZ-159 Public domain photograph - historical image of Arizona, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

47 East Alameda Street (House), Tucson, Pima County, AZ

47 East Alameda Street (House), Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Survey number: HABS AZ-93 Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

McKenzie Drift Boat MUSIC TEMPLE, Grand Canyon, Coconino County, AZ

McKenzie Drift Boat MUSIC TEMPLE, Grand Canyon, Coconino County, AZ

Public domain photograph of Grand Canyon National Park, mountains, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hoover Dam, Arizona-Nevada Switchyard, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Hoover Dam, Arizona-Nevada Switchyard, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, ...

Significance: It is one of six switchyards built between 1935 and 1952 to provide terminals for major transmission lines carrying electricity to markets in California, Nevada, and Arizona. All of these faciliti... More

Southern Pacific Railroad Water Settling Reservoir, Yuma Crossing, south bank of Colorado River at foot of Madison Avenue, Yuma, Yuma County, AZ

Southern Pacific Railroad Water Settling Reservoir, Yuma Crossing, sou...

Significance: The railroad, reaching Arizona Territory form California in 1877, was the first railroad to arrive in Arizona and the second to be built eastward from the West, connecting with the Texas Pacific e... More

F. D. Connor House, 245 Coronado Boulevard, Clifton, Greenlee County, AZ

F. D. Connor House, 245 Coronado Boulevard, Clifton, Greenlee County, ...

Significance: Associated with the development of Clifton, and more particularly of Hill's Addition to Clifton. Survey number: HABS AZ-205 Building/structure dates: 1903 Initial Construction National Register... More

Hubbell Trading Post, Bread Oven, Ganado, Apache County, AZ

Hubbell Trading Post, Bread Oven, Ganado, Apache County, AZ

Significance: This is the remains of the third oven constructed at the Hubbell Trading Post. It provided bread for both the family and trade at this trading post as well as outlying Hubbell-run posts from 1925... More

Hubbell Trading Post, Bread Oven, Ganado, Apache County, AZ

Hubbell Trading Post, Bread Oven, Ganado, Apache County, AZ

Significance: This is the remains of the third oven constructed at the Hubbell Trading Post. It provided bread for both the family and trade at this trading post as well as outlying Hubbell-run posts from 1925... More

San Carlos Irrigation Project, Pima Lateral, Main Canal at Sacaton Dam, Coolidge, Pinal County, AZ

San Carlos Irrigation Project, Pima Lateral, Main Canal at Sacaton Dam...

Survey number: HAER AZ-50-H Public domain photograph - historical image of Arizona, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Part of an impoverished family of nine on a New Mexico highway. Depression refugees from Iowa. Left Iowa in 1932 because of father's ill health. Father an auto mechanic laborer, painter by trade, tubercular. Family has been on relief in Arizona but refused entry on relief roles in Iowa to which state they wish to return. Nine children including a sick four-month-old baby. No money at all. About to sell their belongings and trailer for money to buy food. "We don't want to go where we'll be a nuisance to anybody"

Part of an impoverished family of nine on a New Mexico highway. Depres...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rock carved by drifting sand, below fortification rock, Arizona / T.H. O'Sullivan, phot.

Rock carved by drifting sand, below fortification rock, Arizona / T.H....

Plate no. 14. Originally published: Photographs showing landscapes, geological, and other features of portions of the western territory of the United States, obtained in connection with geographical and geolog... More

Tassi Ranch, Tassi Springs, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ

Tassi Ranch, Tassi Springs, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ

Significance: Tassi Ranch sits on the western edge of the Arizona Strip, an isolated desert region in northern Arizona bounded by the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River to the south and east and the Utah and N... More

Crosscut Steam Plant, Indian Bend Pond & Pump Ditch, North side Salt River near Mill Avenue & Washington Street, Tempe, Maricopa County, AZ

Crosscut Steam Plant, Indian Bend Pond & Pump Ditch, North side Salt R...

Survey number: HAER AZ-20-B Public domain photograph of a canal, water landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

East Rim Drive, Between South Entrance Road & park boundary, Grand Canyon, Coconino County, AZ

East Rim Drive, Between South Entrance Road & park boundary, Grand Can...

Significance: The scenic drive is an early example of the cooperative agreement between the NPS and BPR to build quality automotive roads within the national parks. Extant features of East Rim Drive representa... More

East Rim Drive, Between South Entrance Road & park boundary, Grand Canyon, Coconino County, AZ

East Rim Drive, Between South Entrance Road & park boundary, Grand Can...

Significance: The scenic drive is an early example of the cooperative agreement between the NPS and BPR to build quality automotive roads within the national parks. Extant features of East Rim Drive representa... More

East Rim Drive, Between South Entrance Road & park boundary, Grand Canyon, Coconino County, AZ

East Rim Drive, Between South Entrance Road & park boundary, Grand Can...

Significance: The scenic drive is an early example of the cooperative agreement between the NPS and BPR to build quality automotive roads within the national parks. Extant features of East Rim Drive representa... More

San Gabriel de Guevavi, Santa Cruz River, Nogales, Santa Cruz County, AZ

San Gabriel de Guevavi, Santa Cruz River, Nogales, Santa Cruz County, ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-7 Survey number: HABS AZ-1 Building/structure dates: ca. 1690 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1690 Initial Construction Natio... More

Faraway Ranch, Barn & Tool Shed, Willcox, Cochise County, AZ

Faraway Ranch, Barn & Tool Shed, Willcox, Cochise County, AZ

Survey number: HABS AZ-139-F Public domain photograph - historical image of Arizona, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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