Bagdad Public Library
The Bagdad Library is located on the left as one enters Bagdad at 100 Main Street. The phone number is 520-633-2325. The library contains information that might be of interest to the researchers who wish to focus either on Bagdad in particular or on mining in general.
Books
The following books in the Southwest collection are not always available at other libraries in the District.
Cofer, Irene Cornwall. The lunch tree. Kingman: H & H Printers, 1969 (Mohave Pioneers Historical Society).
Draft Environmental Impact Statement: The Proposed Yarnell Mining Project, June 1998. US EPA, Region IX-San Francisco. It contains several hundred pages with texts, charts and color photos.
Shubinski, Raymond. Discover Arizona's Night Sky: Arizona Highways Book, 1994.
Woods, O. Dell. Yarnell-Peeples Valley Activity Book: Celebrating the Centennial, 1892-1992. Local Publication.
"Yarnell-Peeples Valley Centennial, 1892-1992: Lest we forget," spiral bound, about 70 pp.
Newspapers:
- Aladdin's Lamp: Cyprus Bagdad newsletter Nov/Dec. 1986, vol. 23, #5.
- Cyprus Bagdad Copper Talk, ("Published for Employees of Cyprus Bagdad Copper Corporation" Sept 1994, June 1994, Jan/Feb, 1994, March/April 1994.
School-related materials
High School Yearbook (The Sultan) 1989-90, 1990-91, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-95, 1995-96. Older yearbooks are at the museum.
Scrapbooks and document collections
Area clippings, local news, miscellaneous information on the area. Subjects range from local small events, sports, wrecks, crime news, locals in trouble with the law (court dockets). Much is from the Daily Courier and dates from the late 1960s to the present. More are from 1990s.
Clippings and a few newspapers themselves with local or pertinent national information, on crime, business, and community news (burglaries, people in the military, school-related issues)
Three large three-ring binders with Bagdad information: These contain newspaper clippings, most of which are photocopies.
Notebook with listings of births, deaths and marriages
- Births 1993-present
- Marriages and engagements 1993-97
- Deaths, often copies of obituaries, 1993-97 (some articles about murders, much from The Prescott Courier)
Photographs of recent vintage:
Located behind the check-out counter:
