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Lowell Observatory
Percival Lowell records his findings in the late 1890s in his Flagstaff observatory. As a youngster, Percival Lowell read books about astronomy and gazed at the stars through a telescope... […]
The Bisbee Deportation
More than 1,000 strikers were taken at gunpoint to the Warren baseball field. During the early years of the 20th century, labor unrest was rampant across the nation. In 1917... […]
Adams Hotel Fire
The Hotel Adams in Phoenix, engulfed in flames on May 17, 1910. The graveyard shift was nearly over when Henry Willey, night clerk at Hotel Adams, noticed smoke coming from... […]
The Heards come to Phoenix
Historically, it usually has been a wise career move to marry the boss’ daughter. And that is exactly what Dwight Bancroft Heard did before he moved to Phoenix in 1895.... […]
The Summer of Terror
The Arizona State Prison in Florence where the Jesus Maria Barboa was held after two particularly brutal murders. Before air conditioning, people who spent the summer in Phoenix either slept... […]
Early history of ‘The Arizona Republican’
The Arizona Republican writers and staff pose in the basement of the Heard Building on Central Avenue in 1920. By 1920, Phoenix had grown to more than 29,000 citizens. Urban... […]
The Great Floods of 1890-91
The remnants of the railroad bridge destroyed during the 1890 flood that spanned the Salt River and led into Tempe. Back-to-back floods in 1890 and 1891 were ultimately responsible for... […]
Arizona’s Swastika Bridge
A train drops visitors off near the newly constructed Laguna Diversion Dam. During World War II, Adolph Hitler twisted the swastika, once a symbol of the power of nature, to... […]
The Sad Fate of San Agustin
The second San Agustin Cathedral in the late 1890s. When Father Donato Rogieri came to what was then New Mexico Territory in 1862, to shepherd the souls of largely Mexican-Catholic... […]
Consolidated National Bank
“Ripping off the roof early this morning, workmen commenced demolition of the former home of the Consolidated National Bank,” penned the Arizona Daily Star in November 1928. “The work is... […]
Colonel Edwin N. Hardy
Col. Edwin N. Hardy at Fort Huachuca’s parade ground with his beloved dog Skipper at his side. If Army regulations governed where dogs could and could not go on a... […]
Fort Defiance
Fort Defiance at the turn of the century. Situated in Bonito Canyon at the junction of Bonito and Black creeks, Fort Defiance — pictured here at the turn of the... […]
