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Sanctuary: Who Belongs Here? The Search for Homeland on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1848-Today

UA Archival Collections

Arizona, Southwestern, and Borderlands Photograph Collection, 1873-2018, 1920-1970 (AzSwB Photo)

This collection includes photographs of Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico and date from about 1875 to the present. Formats include postcards, stereographs, cartes-de-visite, cabinet cards, cyanotypes, view books, photograph albums, panoramas, photoprints, and others.

Early Arizona History, 1947 (AZ257)

This collection contains a typescript by Arizona historian Opie Rundle Burgess concerning activities of Apache Indians in Arizona, chiefly Apache leaders Cochise, Geronimo, and Mangas Coloradas. 

John P. Clum Papers, 1860-1970 (AZ003)

Material in this collection consists of writings by the Clums and others about the Apache, Geronimo's capture, and events in Tombstone, Arizona. It includes the correspondence between John and his wife Mary Clum. These letters, a diary from 1875, and some official documents contain information on his tenure as an Indian agent in Arizona.

Manuel Mascareñas Papers (MS014)

Manuel Mascareñas Sr. was a cattle rancher and politician in Sonora, Mexico. The collection contains material on Sonoran events including an August, 1896, attack on Nogales, Sonora, by insurgents known as "Teresistas," or followers of the healer Teresa Urrea. Photographs include captured prisoners following the raid and one portrait of Teresa Urrea.

W.J. McGee Photograph Collection, 1894-1895  (MS483)

The collection includes photographs mostly taken by William Dinwiddie, with some taken by J. W. Mitchell, of two expeditions led by W. J. McGee to study the Tohono O’odham of southern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico, and the Seri people of Mexico. The images document homes, people, and household and work activities including pottery and basket making.

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