Photographer, amateur radio operator, politician, adventurer, outdoorsman, humanitarian, presidential candidate, and father are just a few things to describe the life and career of Senator Barry M. Goldwater.

In this episode Fred McIlvain talks with Arizona Historical Foundation archivists Linda Whitaker, Susan Irvin and Rebekah Tabah on the debut of the Personal and Political Papers of Senator Barry M. Goldwater after 5 years of heavy lifting (literally and figuratively) processing the collection.

When Barry Goldwater founded the Arizona Historical Foundation nearly 50 years ago, the last thing he would have expected is to find his papers in disarray. It is the ultimate irony, that a man who saved everything for posterity, would leave a collection requiring tough interventions so that it could be fully processed and cataloged. For all practical purposes this collection had remained largely unprocessed and hidden confounding researchers worldwide.

 
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Collection Vital Statistics:
• 1180 linear feet (970 boxes)
• 8,000 un-mounted photographs, 1,500 negatives, 5,000 slides, 110 photo albums
• 107 news clipping scrapbooks (many digitized to searchable CDs)
• 480 reels of microfilm (all digitized to searchable CDs)
• 1,028 film reels, cassettes, and tapes
• 896 pages (finding aid)
• 1.14 million documents
• 125+ years (1880s-2008) of Arizona and U.S. History

Host:
Fred McIlvain

Guests:
Linda Whitaker
Susan Irvin
Rebekah Tabah

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Running Time: 25:48

Exhibit:  Researching the Salt River Valley

Location:  Hayden Library, Tempe campus

Available:  Summer 2009, during normal library hours

Description: The ASU Libraries Map Collection contains a wide variety of geospatial resources, including over 200,000 maps, aerial photographs, atlases, gazetteers, and CD-ROMs. While the collection focuses on Arizona, bordering states, and Mexico, well over half the collection materials depict areas from around the U.S. and the world. This exhibit, Researching the Salt River Valley, provides a sampling of the variety of materials available at the Map Collection for researching the history of the Salt River Valley.

The Map Collection is located on the third floor of the Noble Science and Engineering Library. Please visit us and explore our rich collection of maps and aerial photographs (summer Map Collection hours).

Image information: Bird’s Eye View of Phoenix, Maricopa Co., Arizona. Maps — FacsimilesPhoenix (Ariz.) — Aerial views Phoenix, Ariz., Ithaca, N.Y., Historic Urban Plans, 1977.

Give Hope Collection Drive February 6 – March 6

The Commission on the Status of Women is hosting a drive to benefit the women and children of Sojourner Centerm a domestic violence shelter located in Phoenix that provides shelter to over 2,600 women and children every year. Items for the collection may be dropped off at the Hayden and Noble Libraries (Tempe campus) through March 6.  Look for yellow boxes located near the entrances in both libraries.

Needed Items include:

• * Deoderant
• * Lotion
• Toothpaste
• Toothbrushes
• Gift cards (Target or Wal-Mart)
• Dental floss
• 8oz or larger shampoo and conditioner
• Hairbrushes
  * Items that are greatly needed

Find out more about the Sojourner Center on their web site.

Exhibit: Migration: Immigration, Giving Honor to Latina(o) Cultures and Communities

Location: Fletcher Library, West campus

Available:January 5 – April 30, 2009

Description:A colleague, Kathryn Coe, from U of A shares, “…DNA studies verify that everyone living today shares a common distant ancestor. All of us have ancestors who were migrants. The journeys of our ancestors can often be read in our DNA profile. Over time, the paths of migration moving away, and then folding back, have led to a significant mixing not only of DNA, but also of cultures…” This statement frames the dialogue around the significant artworks contributed to this exhibition. The intention is that these visual expressions create conversations, shared understanding and increase participants’ knowledge.

The exhibition expands opportunities for students, staff, faculty, elected officials and community guests to exchange ideas in both the classroom and in the public arena through the arts: to establish, strengthen and sustain partnership between ASU’s West campus and community organizations and members and serve as a vehicle to increase the university’s social embeddedness in the community at large. The mounting of these artworks through a partnership with the Cultural Arts Coalition, serves not only to showcase the works of artists from the community but provides an opportunity to reach into the classroom and share a timely story concerning immigration reform and social justice. This exhibition is presented in conjunction with ASU at the West campus’s Border Justice Event to be held from March 31 to April 2, 2009, under the guidance of William Paul Simmons, Director, MA in Social Justice and Human Rights, Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Engagement in this exhibition allows ASU West campus and the community to explore the concept of migration and community, while honoring the human story. Our intention is that these visual expressions will call upon our humane need to dialog and create conversations and therein create shared understanding- causing us to pause for meaningful conversations around critical issues and public policies. This art exhibition further expands opportunities for student achievement and success, and the exchange of ideas both in the classroom and in the public arena.

This exhibition is on view in conjunction with ASU at the West campus’s Border Justice Event to be held from March 31 to April 2, 2008.

The exhibit is sponsored by the Border Justice Committee, Social and Behavioral Sciences, New College

Image information: Cesar Chavez by Francisco Garcia

In this edition of The Library Channel, Fred converses with Arizona Historical Foundation Photo Preservationist Rebekah Tabah, about an exhibit of images selected from over 40,000 foundation photographs illustrating various ways that Arizona has been surveyed, measured, mapped, and studied. These images and artifacts capture an Arizona we cannot fully experience today, representing 150 years of explorers, miners, soldiers, ranchers, engineers, archaeologists, and government officials.

 
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This exhibit can be viewed in the lobby of the Hayden Library on the Tempe campus through the rest of the summer, during all hours the library is open.

For more information about the exhibit, please contact Rebekah Tabah, Arizona Historical Foundation, 480-965-3283

Host: Fred McIlvain

Guest: Rebekah Tabah

Episode 77

An Exhibit Featuring Select Photographs from the Arizona Historical Foundation

Photographers have been documenting Arizona’s landscape, culture, and people for nearly 150 years. This is a state that has been surveyed literally from the bottom up. Fortunately for us, explorers, miners, soldiers, ranchers, engineers, archaeologists, and the government officials have left behind a trail of images to follow.

These images were selected from over 40,000 photographs held by the Arizona Historical Foundation. They were chosen to illustrate various ways that Arizona has been surveyed, measured, mapped, and studied. They were also chosen for their rarity, composition, perspective, and in some cases, their charm.

From the earliest glass plate negatives of the Grand Canyon to filming the last river trip before the Colorado River was dammed, these images capture an Arizona that cannot be fully experienced today. The landscape, people, and cultures have changed. But through it all, Arizona endures as a land of mystery and majesty.

This exhibit can be viewed in the lobby of the Hayden Library on the Tempe campus through the rest of the summer, during all hours the library is open.

For more information about the exhibit, please contact Rebekah Tabah, Arizona Historical Foundation, 480-965-3283

Photo: Vermilion Cliffs, Colorado River, 1940

The Arizona Historical Foundation presents and exhibition of images from the murder trial of Winnie Ruth Judd, one of the most sensationalized cases in the history of Phoenix. Judd, who died in 1998 at the age of 93, was the notorious “Trunk Murderess” of 1931 caught in Los Angeles transporting the remains of her two female roommates in a set of trunks from Arizona by train. Speculations and conspiracy theories have developed over the years involving her relationships with local celebrities, politicians, and business men. Regardless, by the time of her release she had served one of the longest sentences in the history of any criminal in the United States.

Fred McIlvain and Photo Preservationist Rebekah Tabah talk about the notorious double murder case in Arizona and also explain the how these photos were recently discovered.

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For More Information about this an other historic topics visit the Arizona Historical Foundation at the Hayden Library on the ASU Tempe campus.

Host: Fred McIlvainGuest: Rebekah Tabah Episode 66 Running Time: 10:49

In this Episode, Fred and Mimmo talk with Archivist Elizabeth Scott about the Arizona Historical Foundation (AHF). We learn about its history, its mission, and the types of collections it houses and what interesting bits of Arizona history you can find within its walls.

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The AHF, a private non-profit 501(c) (3) repository, is a part of history itself as it was initiated by Senator Barry Goldwater (another Arizona institution) as a repository to collect, preserve and disseminate Arizona and Southwestern history that he felt was leaving the region to other out-of-state repositories. The collection includes many personal items of Senator Goldwater. Today, AHF collection development centers on issues of the New West- the period after 1900 and extending to the present.

To delve into the collection, Liz talks about Mason Coggin (1938-2000), a world-renowned mining engineer and cowboy poet. Liz also discusses the Charles Orme Jr. Collection and Jimmy Stewart’s connection to Arizona through his affiliation with the Orme School, a prestigious, private school in Yavapai County. We’ll even hear about the history of Monti’s La Casa Vieja, a local restaurant in Tempe which is also the birthplace of the late Senator Carl Hayden.

After the interview with Liz, Fred takes a tour with AHF Chief Archivist Linda Whitaker of an exhibit “The Golden Age of Postcards (1898-1919)” featuring art, real view, folding and leather postcards from the Greater Southwest on display through December 2007, on the 4th floor of the Hayden Library.

For more information please visit:
The Arizona Historical Foundation Website
Mason Coggin at Cowboy Poetry at the Bar-D Ranch
Charles H. Orme Jr. collection
Leonard F. Monti Sr. Collection

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Episode 45

In this podcast Ann Ewbank discusses her role as AzLA President and highlights some of the organization’s upcoming events, including the 2007 AzLA Annual Conference and Library Legislative Day. In addition, she briefly defines her role as the Education Liaison Librarian at Fletcher Library at the West campus.

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Ann Dutton Ewbank, Ph.D., is the Education Liaison Librarian at Fletcher Library. She is a former teacher-librarian and classroom teacher and is the 2007 President of the Arizona Library Association. Ann is a member-at-large of the American Library Association Council and the Chair of the AASL Task Force on Instructional Classification.

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