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Nathaniel Plumer and Tucson’s Speedway Boulevard

[caption id="attachment_40125" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="(From left:) Tucson businessmen Tenney Davis Williams, Fred Steward and Nathaniel Plumer sit in their automobiles, a Stoddard-Dayton, a Cadillac and a Maxwell, respectively. The boy...

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Queen of the Colorado

[caption id="attachment_39315" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="This 1876 photo shows the Mohave, the largest and most palatial of the paddle-wheel boats that once owned the trade business up and down the Colorado...

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Old Main: No Running on the Balcony

University of Arizona’s Old Main is pictured here in 1894.
This remarkable piece of architecture is Old Main on the University of Arizona campus in...

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Building the Kaibab Bridge, 1921

Men perform precarious work on the Kaibab suspension bridge over the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. (Photo courtesy of the Arizona Historical Society, Pioneer Museum)
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Specialty license plates run amok

If an illustration of a cactus and sunset don’t suit a driver’s personality, Arizonans now have the option to bypass the standard license plate for one of the 49 specialty...

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The Pyramid of Hi Jolly

[caption id="attachment_35747" align="alignleft" width="290" caption="This pyramid in Quartzsite is the gravesite of Hadji Ali — nicknamed Hi Jolly — who served as a camel driver for the U.S. Army in...

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Arizona mining museum in Phoenix closes

The Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum near the State Capitol has closed a month earlier than expected. As the building’s overseer, the Arizona Historical Society...

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Flagstaff ’s Basque La Cancha

This picture shows the back wall and side view of a Basque handball court built in 1926.
On the historic Sanborne Fire Insurance maps of downtown Flagstaff,...

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Sidney R. DeLong: Engineer, Soldier, Editor

This solemn and serious gentleman is Sidney R. DeLong of Tucson, photographed in the 1880s. (Photo courtesy Arizona Historical Society, Tucson)
Sidney R. DeLong was one...

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Tucson’s Arizona Pool Room

Frank Kalil (left), owner of the Arizona Pool Room in Tucson between 1911 and 1912, stands with his hands on a pool table.
Business was...

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