Phoenix Arizona History

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Phoenix Arizona People Photo Gallery

Images of People in Phoenix


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Residential Building
May 1940. One of the oldest residential buildings in Phoenix, Arizona (in 1940). Lee, Russell, 1903- photographer.

Member of orchestra
May 1940. Member of orchestra which plays outside grocery store on Saturday afternoon tuning his violin, Phoenix, Arizona. Lee, Russell, 1903- photographer.

High school students
May 1940. High school students crossing the street. Phoenix, Arizona. Lee, Russell, 1903- photographer.

Cactus light
May 1940. Cactus light standard in front of hotel in Phoenix, Arizona. Lee, Russell, 1903- photographer.

Avenue of palms
May 1940. Avenue of palms line the residential streets of Phoenix, Arizona. Lee, Russell, 1903- photographer.

Water hauled
May 1940. Water must be hauled to some of the residences in Phoenix, Arizona. Lee, Russell, 1903- photographer.

Orchestra playing
May 1940. Orchestra playing outside a grocery store on Saturday afternoon which is designed to attract customers to the store, Phoenix, Arizona. Lee, Russell, 1903- photographer.

Drought refugees
Aug. 1936. Drought refugees in Phoenix, Arizona. One of the many cases of Tennessee ex-farmers drifting around, looking for work in cotton. Lange, Dorothea, photographer.

Coolidge
Mr. Coolidge becomes an honorary member of the Smoki[i.e., Hopi] tribe of Arizona. Miss Grace M. Sparks, Secty. of the Chamber of Commerce of Prescott, Ariz. and H.M. Watkins, Secty. of the Chamber of Phoenix. On June 2, 1924 President Coolidge had signed a bill granting Indians full U.S. citizenship.

Phoenix Union High School
May 1940. Small lunchroom where students gather near Phoenix Union High School. Phoenix, Arizona. Lee, Russell, 1903- photographer.

One of the main streets
May 1940. One of the main streets of Phoenix, Arizona. Phoenix is the center of the Sun Valley, an intensely irrigated and cultivated district. Lee, Russell, 1903- photographer.

Native American woman
A Native American (Maricopa) woman stands on the sidewalk near a market on Worthington Street in Phoenix, Arizona. She holds a basket and wears a blanket. A sign reads: "J. W. Dorris [W]ash". Shows a Native American man, white men, and a bicycle. Title, "R-574", and "During their great Indian & cowboy Carnival. A Maricopa squaw "doing the Promenade." hand-written on back of mat board.

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