Sharlot Hall Museum Archives and Library

• The Arizona Miner/Journal Miner: The Arizona Miner was first printed at Ft. Whipple and then moved into Prescott. The Archives has microfilm for the periodical under various titles including The Weekly Arizona Miner, The Arizona Weekly Miner, The Daily Arizona Miner, The Arizona Weekly Journal-Miner and The Prescott Journal Miner from 1864 to 1934.
  
• The Courier: The Archives has this periodical under various titles including The Prescott Weekly Courier, The Prescott Morning Courier, The Prescott Evening Courier, The Prescott Courier, and The Courier from 1886 to the present.
  
  
• The Weekly Tribune, various issues1908-1910
  
  
• Verde Copper News: first six months of 1923
  
  
• Prescott Weekly, various issues, 1979-1982
  
  
• The Paper, various issues, 1973-77
  
  
• The Yavapai County Messenger, 1958-59
  
  
• Fringe Benefit, monthly newspaper, Prescott Valley, 1970-79
  
  
• The Prescott Sun, 1988-

• Yavapai Magazine (1914-31)
  
• Pay Dirt (1938-78)

• Hospital records
  
• Judicial records
  
• Homestead records
  
• Ranching records
  
• Mining records,
  
• County records (including information on mill sites and water rights, mining claims, tax and treasurer accounts)

• Marriage Records Index of Yavapai County 1865-1895
  
• Arizona Territorial Marriage Records Index of Yavapai County 1895-1912
  
• Some early Arizona magazines from 1862-1912
  
• Northern Arizona Territorial Death and Burial Records, 1870-1910
  
• Yavapai County Hospital Deaths from 1885-1942
  
• Mercy Hospital Deaths of Yavapai County from 1878-1927
  
• Yavapai County Miscellaneous Death Records from 1887-1938
  
• Ruffner Funeral Home records 1901-1939. Records after 1939 are available only at the Arizona Ruffner Wakelin Funeral Home
  
• Hampton Funeral Home Records 1936-69 Hampton records after 1969 are available only at Hampton Funeral Home.
  
• Scattered records of the Hunter, Olds, Widmer, and Chapel of the Garden Mortuaries.
  
• Births, Deaths and Marriages from 1880-1912 and 1933-1942 (includes indexes to birth announcements from approximately 1880-1910, marriage announcements from 1880-1910, City of Prescott Health Department Death Records, 1899-1906, Birth and Death Records, 1909-1912, and Hospital Deaths, 1933-1942).
  
• Index 1870 Census Yavapai County, Arizona
  
• Index 1880 Census Yavapai County, Arizona
  
• 1900 Census Yavapai County, Arizona
  
• 1910 Census record index (does not include I, N, P, T, V, and Y)
  
• Arizona Territorial Great Register of 1876, Yavapai County
  
• Arizona Territorial Poll Tax Records 1873-76
  
• Arizona Territorial Hospital Record of Yavapai County, 1890-1910
  
• Records of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Prescott, Arizona 1890-1910
  
• Arizona Territorial Deed Records of Yavapai County, 1864-1869
  
• Bible Records, Sharlot Hall Museum and Archives
  
• Naturalization records indexes, 1865-1906, 1904-1910
  
• Yavapai Magazine index (alphabetical by year 1914-1932)
  
• United Verde Copper Company Extension records from 1930
  
• School Records 1900-01
  
• Cemetery lists and maps
  Nearly complete listing of all cemeteries in the County, often with a list of people interred,
  maps of cemeteries, and occasionally information on the deceased.
  
• Federal Census records (Arizona County in New Mexico Territory, 1860; the 1864 Census of the Territory of Arizona, 1864; Federal Census, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920)
  
• Yavapai County Census Records, 1869, 1872, 1874, 1876
  
• Great Registers (biennial voter registration records): 1878, 1880, 1882, 1884, 1886, 1888, 1890-96, 1900, 1902-08
  
• City Directories 1903-1990
  
• Telephone Directories, 1902, 1907, 1939, 1942, and 1951-present
  
• Hospital Records, 1874-1963 (restricted)
  
• Marriage Records, 1887-1972
  
• Probate and Wills (1864-1972) court minutes only. Records by estate available from State Archives in Phoenix.
  
• School Yearbooks, 1911-present: Prescott High School.
  
• School Yearbooks, St. Joseph's Academy, Yavapai College, and Orme School for various dates.
  
  
  

• Papers of William J. Waara, mining engineer
  
• Yavapai Magazine
  
• Yavapai County Records, County Recorder's Office
  • Mining Claims, various years
  • Deeds 1875-95
  • Index to Mines
  • Index to Mill Sites and Water Rights
  • Index to Locators
  
• United Verde Copper Company Archives (Photocopies of personnel records, including the United Verde Extension, 1925-35)
  
• Papers of LeRoy Anderson, attorney for United Verde and Pacific RR and United Verde Copper Company, 1911-9125
  
• Papers of Joaquin F. Moreno regarding Bagdad Copper Corporation, 1928-35
  
• Papers of Thomas Gibson Barlow-Massicks, mine owner and operator
  
• Bagdad Copper Corporation Archives (Engineers' reports 1925-35)
  
• Papers of Fred J. Smith, caretaker of Derby Mine, correspondence 1900-1950
  
• Papers of George U. Young, owner of Derby Mine
  

• Allen's Nu-Way Market Collection (1934-75) (4 cubic feet)
  Primarily financial information, ledgers, etc.
  
• LeRoy Anderson Collection [attorney], 1910-23, (3 cubic feet)
  The collection contains legal papers, especially those connected to United Verde and Pacific RR and United Verde Copper Mining Company.
  
• American Legion-Ernest A. Love Post Collection (1 cubic foot)
  The collection includes scrapbooks from the 1930s and 1940s as well as history of the Post from 1920-60.
  
• Arizona Pioneers' Home Collection (3 cubic feet)
  The collection includes 11 scrapbooks and photo albums documenting life and events at Pioneers' Home 1952-86); there is also some information on its founding (1911).
  
• Kenneth L. Austin Collection (6 cubic fee)
  Some of this is restricted. Austin was, among other things, an amateur archaeologist. The collection includes information on archaeological sites a well as slides and correspondence
  
• Banta Collection (1863-1924) (1 cubic feet)
  Alfred Banta, AKA Charles Franklin, was a pioneer, Indian Scout, mail carrier, miner and newspaperman. The collection contains personal recollections of scouting and other activities, some correspondence, including letters from the Canal Zone, typed autobiography (undated) as well as other undated narratives.
  
• Thomas Gibson Barlow-Massicks Collection: 1896-1904 (one folder)
  The collection includes mining claims, patent claims, correspondence relating to mining claims, and some material relating to the disposition of his property after his death.
  
• Claude Bate Collection: around 1920s, three folders.
  Bate was an important early Arizona photographer. The collection contains Kodak brochures and handbooks concerning various photographic processes.
  
• Arizona Bicentennial Committee Collection 1975-76, three cubic feet
  This contains reports, brochures, and clippings relating to preparation for the nation's bicentennial.
  
• Lois Whitcomb Boblett Collection, 1851-1914
  The collection consists of 70 typed pages taken from her diary detailing a move to Colorado from Milwaukee in 1864.
  
• Boettcher Collection 1875-111 (one folder)
  H. L. Boettcher worked in mining, ranching, and at sawmills. The collection contains his diary describing a rail trip to Kansas as well as his obituary, the original copy of his suicide note and directions for the dispersal of his personal property.
  
• Charles H. Bowers Collection of James E. Murphy Papers: Personal correspondence, diary, and military records relating to Murphy's service in the Philippine Insurrection.
  
• Blaine Bowman II Collection: 1915-60s 36 cubic feet plus 200 maps, oral history tape
  Bowman was a railroad worker and railroad museum owner (Mayer, AZ). The collection contains railroad right of way maps and other railroad maps, manuals, correspondence codebooks, timetables, as well as an oral history tape.
  
• Boy Scouts of America-Prescott Collection (2 cubic feet)
  Scrapbooks 1920-23; den rosters, miscellaneous administrative papers and correspondence.
  
• James B. Brady Collection includes the roster of Rough Riders and United Spanish War Veterans memberships.
  
• Brands Collection (9 cubic feet)
  The collection contains materials related to animal brands including samples of area brands.
  
• Eddie Brooks Sr., collection 1864-67
  Brooks was a laundry operator who was active in the local business community. The collection contains copies of news items providing historical information about Prescott businesses.
  
• Angie Mitchell Brown Collection, 1850-1900 (3 cubic feet)
  Brown came to Prescott 1875; she taught school and eventually married. The collection includes her diary from her college years as well as from 1879-88, historical notes about Prescott and Yavapai County, and miscellaneous correspondence.
  
• William H Brown Collection: 1 folder
  Brown was listed as the "Acting Inspector General of Arizona" under General Crook. The collection contains copies of documents pertaining to Brown's military service to the 5^th Cavalry (1865-76).
  
• Mike Burns Collection, 1910-23: one folder
  Burns was an Apache Indian captured by soldiers of 5^th Cavalry in 1872. The collection contains a 500-page manuscript about Indian life and the author's own life experiences as well as several letters to Sharlot Hall asking for help in getting the manuscript published. The date of the manuscript is approximately 1923. The manuscript will soon be published.
  
• Business and Professional Woman's Club-Prescott, 1912-27
  Two folders contain miscellaneous news clippings, correspondence, financial records.
  
• Alice Butterfield Collection, 1896-06
  The collection contains four diaries of this Phoenix resident who was a friend of Sharlot Hall.
  
• James Chase Collection: Rough Rider memorabilia, photos.
  
• Kate Cory Collection, 1905-12: 1.5 cubic feet
  Ms. Cory was a local photographer, author, and painter who was a long time friend of Sharlot Hall. The collection contains photos and unpublished materials.
  
• Cowboy Camp Meetings Collection 1950s and 1960s: 1 cubic foot
  Manuscripts, letters, and magazines with information on camp meetings (held at a local ranch), which were religious in nature.
  
• Cowboy Folklore Oral history collection (5 linear feet)
  Tapes of cowboy songs sung by working cowboys and ranch hands.
  
• Matt Culley Collection, two folders
  Culley managed the Santa Rita Experimental Range near Tucson and retired in 1950. The collection includes an oral history and transcripts.
  
• Ida Williams Davisson Collection: 1888-1947
  Mrs. Williams Davisson was a friend of Sharlot Hall. This collection contains personal correspondence, including letters and postcards from Sharlot Hall.
  
• Edward J. Doutt Collection (pertaining to Spanish-American War): military pension records and biographical notes.
  
• Elks Theater -Elks Lodge Collection (3 cubic feet)
  The collection contains programs, reports and other documents related to the theater and the PBOE lodge.
  
• Emergency Relief Administration Collection (1 cubic foot)
  This collection contains scattered reports for the ERA, between 1933 and 1935, for the City of Prescott.
  
• Helen Fairbanks Collection: scrapbooks of clippings pertaining to Spanish-American War and the Philippine insurrection.
  
• Farmer Collection, 1870-1964 (2.5 cubic feet)
  The collection primarily consists of papers, books, and photos belonging to Prescott attorney A. A. "Tony" Johns and Johns' secretary, Merle Farmer. It includes biographical materials that reflect politics and social activities and interests, as well as government papers that include negotiations for giving the Arizona Strip to Utah. There is also some information on the Arizona Pioneers' Home and county Welfare Board Correspondence, 1939-53, as well as some information on Bashford and Burmister and Morris Goldwater.
  
• Cecil Fennell Collection, 1894-1910 (2 cubic feet)
  Fennell developed the Gladstone and McCabe gold mines, ran Val Verde Copper Smelter and built and operated the Humboldt Smelter in Yavapai County in 1899. The collection includes letters, press book, stock certificates genealogy chart for Fennel family, and his diary (1894-96).
  
• Barbara Fritche Collection (1948-69) one folder
  This contains papers on a land allotment dispute on H W Ranch, some sketches of Fritche family and other local families, as well as a typed copy of a list of students and teachers at the Big Chino School 1885-97.
  
• J. I. Gardner Collection: 1896-1911 (one cubic foot)
  Gardner ran the J. I. Gardner Mercantile. The collection contains ledgers and cashbooks.
  
• George Geib Collection, 1943-46 (1cubic foot)
  Geib fought in WWII. The collection includes memorabilia, maps, souvenirs and original letters he wrote to his family while he was in the service during WWII.
  
• Charles B. Genung Collection: 1908-12: two folders
  Genung was a rancher, miner, farmer, and longtime friend of Sharlot Hall. The collection includes letters and historical sketches on Arizona history, as he knew it.
  
• Grand Army of the Republic Collection, 1884Collecton, one folder
  The collection contains rosters, laws, by-laws and list of Civil War soldiers who served in Arizona.
  
• Sharlot M. Hall Collection: 1887-1943 (Seven cubic feet)
  Sharlot M. Hall was a historian, writer poet, and founder of the Sharlot Hall Museum, Prescott, Arizona. This collection contains personal and business-related correspondence, historical and personal in nature as well as notes on ideas, poems, and writings, historical notes, scrapbooks and photographs. The bulk of the collection pertains to personal and personal/business matters connected with her poetry and historical writings. Ms. Hall was especially interested in recording the remembrances of early pioneers in the Prescott area as well as observing and recording facts and observations on the geography, archaeology, and history of Arizona in general and Northern Arizona in particular.
  
• L. E. Hewins Collection: 1877-1926: one folder
  Hewins' wife was a close friend of Sharlot Hall, and L.E. Hewins represented Sharlot Hall's business interests.
  
• Charles Hollingshead Collection: 1900-03: two folders
  Hollingshead was a cowboy, trapper, and miner who committed suicide in 1937. The collection includes handwritten and typed copies of recollections of people and places, and six small notebooks written between 1900-03. In the Sharlot Hall Collection there is correspondence between Hollingshead and Sharlot Hall.
  
• Kiwanis Club of Prescott 1924-50s
  The collection contains miscellaneous reports and statements.
  
• Robert Kuhne Collection: 2 folders 1902-1976
  The collection contains materials related to founding of Yavapai County Youth Center and the "Kuhne School."
  
• Walter Lange Collection, 1899-1976: two folders
  Lange was a working cowboy and ranger. The collection includes records of cowboys on Yolo and Bogle ranches, 1941-71 and biographical information.
  
• Esther Lemay Collection: one folder and two scrapbooks
  Lemay was active in the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Arizona. The collection includes membership information, receipt books, scrapbooks of clippings, newsletters, miscellaneous correspondence from the 1950s.
  
• Ernest Love Collection, 1896-1918: one cubic foot
  Love was a WWI aviator who was killed during the war. The collection includes some personal correspondence, personal records, memorials and sheet music written in his honor.
  
• Mona Lange McCroskey Collection (1 cubic foot)
  Ms McCroskey does historical work at the Sharlot Hall Museum. The collection contains personal information as well as some materials that were written by McCroskey.
  
• Margaret Maxwell Collection (two cubic feet)
  She is a historian, librarian, and writer who compiled a biography of Sharlot Hall entitled Passion for Living. The collection includes the original and edited manuscript of the book.
  
• Joaquin F. Moreno Collection: 1875-1963, three folders
  Moreno was a Spanish-born soldier who served at Ft. Whipple and became a lawyer. The file contains legal and personal correspondence as well as a journal begun in Spain and kept up through his immigration. The file also contains information on his service in WWI, and his later service at Ft. Whipple.
  
• Lillie Barr Munroe Collection: 1853-1933 (1 cubic foot)
  Lillie Barr Munro was the daughter of writer and editor, Amelia Barr. She was also a friend of Sharlot Hall. The collection includes miscellaneous manuscripts, published and unpublished.
  
• Navy Mothers' Club #311-Prescott, Arizona-Collection: 1942-1970 (1 cubic foot)
  The collection includes club information and photos of club members.
  
• William O. (Buckey) O'Neill Collection, 1860-1898, two folders and two scrapbooks.
  O'Neill came to Arizona in 1879 and moved to Prescott in 1883. The collection contains copies of family genealogy, service-related papers, notes on O'Neill by Sharlot Hall, and scrapbooks with articles by and about O'Neill, primary and secondary.
  
• Charles Franklin Parker Collection, 1903-1983, 16 cubic feet
  Parker came to Prescott in 1934 as pastor of the Congregational Church. The collection mainly contains church-related materials.
  
• Isaac H. Parkman Collection 1880-1972, two scrapbooks
  Parkman was a writer and historian. The collection includes scrapbooks that contain his columns and other news articles he found interesting.
  
• Charles DeBrille Poston Collection 1850-1899: two folders and diary
  Poston arrived in Arizona in 1854; he helped found the Arizona Historical Society. The collection contains his diary, mostly kept after the fact, and covers the time from 1850-1899.
  
• Prescott Corral of Westerners Collection, 1961-93 (three cubic feet)
  The collection contains the history of the Corral, minutes, financial reports, and newsletters.
  
• Prescott Elementary Schools Collection, 1900-1920 (1.5 cubic feet)
  This contains schools' registers 1900-20, lists of teachers, students, and parents.
  
• Prescott Frontier Days Collection, 1888-present (3 folders)
  The collection includes programs and rodeo schedules.
  
• Prescott Public Library Collection, 1897-1916, three folders
  Much of this collection is related to correspondence to and from the Carnegie Foundation regarding the construction of the local public library.
  
• Prescott Tomorrow Collection, 1962-75 (one cubic foot)
  This was a grassroots civic organization; the collection includes membership lists, minutes, correspondence.
  
• Prescott Volunteer Fire Department Collection: 1880-1950s (Two cubic feet)
  The collection includes miscellaneous correspondence, fire calls, and lists of volunteers.
  
• Denis Matthew (Matt) Riordan Collection, 1848-1928
  Riordan was a friend of Sharlot Hall, Indian Agent to the Navajo Nation, and entrepreneur. The collection includes originals and copies of some Riordan correspondence between 1899-1914 and miscellaneous information. There are also articles about Riordan.
  
• Santa Fe Railroad Collection, 1915-60, four folders
  This contains miscellaneous correspondence, reports, and labor records.
  
• Bert and Ruth Schoneberger Collection, six folders
  Bert was mayor of Prescott in 1950s. The collection contains papers, correspondence and clippings from his mayoral period plus miscellaneous information on Bert's and Ruth's civic activities.
  
• Fred J. Smith Collection, 1868-1959; five folders
  Smith was a caretaker at Derby Mine near Prescott 1912-1952. The collection contains business correspondence and papers.
  
• Lillian Wilhelm Smith Collection, 1882-1971
  Smith came West in 1916, married a rancher and became a book illustrator. The collection contains miscellaneous correspondence, notebooks and journals, 1898-1906. There is also some correspondence on her painting.
  
• Spanish-American War Veterans Collection, 1898 (two and one half cubic feet and one scrapbook)
  The collection covers meetings, programs, and rosters.
  
• Grace Marion Sparkes Collection, 1893-1963 (two cubic feet)
  Sparkes was a friend of Sharlot Hall's who was very active in Prescott civic affairs. The collection contains personal and business correspondence, including bank records.
  
• Boyd Tenney Collection, 1915 (one half cubic foot)
  Local activist and politician, Tenney was born into an early Arizona ranching family. The collection contains two scrapbooks of clippings relating to his time in the State Legislature.
  
• William Waara Collection. 50 cubic feet, includes 3000 maps.
  Mr. Waara was a civil and mining engineer and U.S. mineral surveyor at Prescott, Arizona from 1902-1957. The collection consists principally of 41 boxes of documents relating to Waara's practice as a civil and mining engineer in Prescott plus publications and a map collection consisting of some 3,000 items.
  
• Helen Chapman Wilburn Collection, 1901-1915 (two cubic feet)
  The collection includes papers and corresp of early families (including Genungs and Chapmans) as well as correspondence, manuscripts of articles published in the Los Angeles Mining Review (1911), unpublished manuscripts, miscellaneous business correspondence, miscellaneous news clippings.
  
• Yavapai Citizens Association Collection: 1970s-80s (four cubic feet)
  The grassroots organization was concerned with local zoning issues. The collection contains correspondence and news clippings.
  
• Yavapai County Records Collection (70 cubic feet)
  This includes records on roads, mining claims, Board of Supervisors meetings, court proceedings, assessments, etc.
  
• Yavapai Heritage Foundation Collection (historic buildings records)
  
• George U. Young Collection, 1902-17 (five cubic feet)
  Young was a local lawyer connected with mining issues. The collection contains miscellaneous correspondence and business materials including mining information.
  
• Otis Young, Jr. Collection, 1840-1910 (two cubic feet)
  Dr. Young was a professor of history at ASU during the 1950s through the 1980s. The collection contains rough drafts of proposed articles and university course materials from his classes.