Sedona Public Library

• Red Rock News: The Voice of Sedona and Oak Creek Canyon, a nearly-complete collection of issues from the paper's inception (October 3, 1963) to the present.
  
• Sedona Spectator. (Published by Herbert A. Alf). This is a complete set of this newspaper, which was changed format a number of times, getting larger through the months. The library also has the mock up pages for some ads, as well as the rates schedule.
• Hard Scrabble News. (Subtitle: The awkward newspaper). The first issue appeared in September 1962; the paper continued through August 1963.
  
• Sedona Times: "The Weekly News Arts and Entertainment Newspaper of the Verde Valley" ($.25/issue). They have March 1986 (which is #37 in vol. 4) through December 1988.
  

• Sedona Life. They have a fairly complete collection from the first issue in 1977. The magazine contained ads, articles, and artwork; dates are not printed on the magazine, which was a 32 page, color publication.
  
• Sedona Magazine: spring 1995-spring 1997; the collection seems sporadic.
  
• Sedona Journal of Emergence: Generally about 120 pp, color photos, ads, and articles, "new age" flavor, late 1990s.
  

• Arizona Census data: Sedona, 1990 census
  
• Sedona, Coconino County: official zoning map, sepia print, August 3, 1981
  
• Arizona Geology: articles, forestry maps, a few clippings, copies of short articles from Museum of Northern Arizona, Aug 1930 sporadically through January, 1948.
  
• Arizona Grand Canyon Railway: brochures, clippings, copies of approximately 10 articles, 1980s and 1990s.
  
• One drawer contains several files on Sedona. They contain clippings, copies of articles, and brochures.
  Subjects include: archaeology, artists, park history, demographics, economic surveys, and climate surveys, Sedona Forum, File on Incorporation, Oak Creek Canyon, Sedona history (no primary documents) and local citizens.
  
• In the file on (Sedona) there are four issues of the Canyon Caller: The Joy of Abundance
  
• Information on Vultee Aircraft and Vultee family.
  

• "Arizona history:" three ring binder containing loose and collected information on the 1968 construction of the library. Additionally, there are newspaper clippings that appear to be from the 1970s and 1980s, but they're not dated.
  
• "The history of the Sedona Public Library, " small spiral scrapbook. It was begun in March 1964 but details events back to 1958, clippings from 1961-1963 (probably 20) and typed summaries of events and recollections of Dorothy Wright, 1972.
  
• 1991-92, loose information on library (in a folder, but among the scrapbooks).
  
• "Book #II" April, 1964-Dec 1965, publicity on the library prepared by Winifred V. Stallard: about 30 double-sided pages with dated clippings pasted in, sometimes 4-5 per page.
  
• "Book #III: Publicity Scrapbook of Sedona Public Library." Publicity prepared by Winifred V. Stallard: 1966 to the end of 1968; possibly 100 small articles copied from newspapers, some photos (all of local people and events).
  
• News Releases: Sedona Library, April 1968-October 1969, made and donated by Lucille Clarke, approximately 20 double sided pages with clippings pasted in.
  
• "Book #IV," publicity scrapbook of Sedona Public Library, Jan 1969-Sept 1970, prepared by Winifred Stallard; about 80 pages of well-marked clippings.
  
• "Library Ad-Libs" column from Red Rock News by Winifred Stallard, 7-8-65 through 7-21-66; approximately 30 articles.
  
• "Sedona Oak Creek History," approximately 15 clippings from mid-sixties on Sedona history as well as information on the Westerners
  
• Scrapbook with many pictures and other "items" missing. Originally, this was probably a personal scrapbook, but there is no person's name on the book. Snapshots, clippings, about Sedona, mostly from the early 1970s to very early 1980s, about 20 pages.
  
• Publicity clippings Jan 1970 to July 10, 1980, about 40 double-sided pages, including approximately 15 unidentified photos of children, probably in a reading group.
  
• Publicity clippings February 11, 1981-June 4, 1986, approximately 50 pp.
  
• Publicity June 1986-October, 1988, about 50 double-sided pages containing clippings and a few are photocopies of clipped articles.
  
• October 1988-Ocober 1991, about 30 double sided pages containing clippings with information about Sedona.
  
• Nov 1991-end of 1993, clippings, a few colored snapshots, not well-identified
  
• Newspaper clippings and brochures, December 17, 1993-Feb 10, 1995, about 30 double sided pages, original clippings taped on pages.
  
• "Let's Build a New Library" (compiled by Betty Tisch) 1991 through October 1994. This contains fairly complete information, clippings and snapshots, of the new library. There are approximately 100 snapshots, most of them well identified as to date, subject and location; there are also progress reports (official) about 100 pages.
  
• Clippings, begun 2-3-95 through 12-6-96, about 100 pages; no snapshots.
  
• Publicity clippings 11-01-96 through April 28, 1998, about 50 pages of clippings taped to pages.
  
• Photo snapshots, both colored and black and white many of new building and moving in; some photos chronicle other library activities
  
• Small album of about 20 photos of groundbreaking, , photos done by Red Earth Photo (no dates on photos)
  
• Building the Sedona Public Library: Jordan Road, groundbreaking Oct 5, 1968: completion: October 4, 1969: photos include one of Barry Goldwater. The book also includes a short manuscript, "The Sedona Public Library: 1964," (History, 7 pp). There is also Dorothy Wright's overview of the library and its development, typed, one page dated August 1972. Additionally, there are approximately 50 photos of the building as well as some other, loose, black and white pictures of the
  old library in the Chamber of Commerce building (in the 1950s?), and an invitation to the library, as
  well as the program for the groundbreaking
  
• 1986-1990, visits to other libraries, beginning of building on White Bear Rd., approximately 300 well-identified snapshots, mostly in color; there are also some loose Polaroids, probably of story time, and some of vandalism to the library.