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Bisbee Deportation
Bisbee Deportation

www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/bisbee/index.html/

Bisbee Deportation A historical overview of the events and people involved in the Bisbee Deportation of 1917. This project includes a complete archive of the resources held on this topic by Special Collections at the UA Library.


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Books of the Southwest
Books of the Southwest

www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/swetc

In 1996, the Library began presenting on the Web full-length books and pamphlets documenting Arizona and southwest history and culture. Many of these items are fragile, and, prior to their online appearance, only available through an in-person visit to the Library’s Special Collections department. The texts of these first titles were converted directly to HTML, and, together with their images, put on the web in a design that approximated the look and feel of the original book.

In 2000, the Library received grant funds for the "Ten Books Project" to explore new ways of making full-length books available on the Web. The books in this project were quite lengthy, sometimes comprising several hundred pages or even several volumes. Many had complex layouts including footnotes, charts and tables, maps, etc. The Library is continuing to experiment with the best ways to present these books on the Web, and welcomes feedback from readers.

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Documentary Relations of the Southwest (DRSW) Indexes
Documentary Relations of the Southwest (DRSW) Indexes

saint-denis.library.arizona.edu:4000/cgi-bin/
museumLogon.cgi

Description of the project: The DRSW Indexes are a computerized guide to several collections of Spanish colonial documents. Currently, 2 of the major indexes (the Master index and BIOFILE) are available on the web. A third index is also currently in development. All of the indexes are made available via OCLC's SiteSearch software.

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Harvey Project
Harvey Project

harvey.library.arizona.edu/

Traveling the Rails in Grand Style: photographs and supplemental materials of the Fred Harvey Hotels, 1896-1945: Fred Harvey (1835-1901) began a partnership with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1878. In 1889, the Railway gave Harvey exclusive rights to manage and operate his eating houses, lunch stands, and hotel facilities upon the Santa Fe's railroads west of the Missouri River. The Harvey Houses took pride in their first class food, service, and cleanliness. There are approximately 2,000 photographs depicting exterior and interior views of hotels, eating houses, railroad stations and news stands operated by Fred Harvey. States represented are Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. Other photographs document the Indian exhibits at the Panama-Pacific International Exhibition, 1915, and the Panama-California Exposition, 1915- 1916. A scrapbook depicts Mexican scenes and individuals, as well as Southwestern Indians. There are also two guest register books for Hermit's Rest, Phantom Ranch, and Hermit Creek Camp at the Grand Canyon, 1922 to 1930. A ledger book records certain GrandCanyon operations, 1906 to 1933. Blueprint plans for news stands are also included. Correspondence found in the collections consists mostly of letters of commendation for services rendered to patrons. Many are written on menu cards or hotel stationery.

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Journal of Insect Science
Journal of Insect Science

insectscience.org

The Journal of Insect Science publishes papers in all aspects of the biology of insects and other arthropods from the molecular to the ecological. The Journal was originally hosted by the University of Arizona Library, but is now hosted at the University of Wisconsin Library.

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Journal of Range Management
Journal of Range Management

jrm.library.arizona.edu/

The official publication of the Society of Range Management, this journal has been in print since 1948. Each issue (published bi-monthly) from 1948 to 1994 has been digitized and converted to PDF format. The abstracts of more recent issues are archived by Texas A&M University.


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Journal of the Southwest
Journal of the Southwest

digital.library.arizona.edu/jsw/

Journal of the Southwest, founded in 1959 as Arizona and the West, began publishing in its current format in 1987. A refereed journal published quarterly by the University of Arizona Press and the Southwest Center, Journal of the Southwest invites scholarly articles, essays, and reviews informing any aspect of the Greater Southwest (including northern Mexico). Dedicated to ail integrated regional study, the journal publishes broadly across disciplines, including: intellectual and social history, anthropology, literary studies, folklore, historiography, politics, Borderlands studies, and regional natural history.

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Little Cowpuncher
Little Cowpuncher

cowpuncher.library.arizona.edu

We are making available in digital form Little Cowpuncher, a mimeographed school newspaper, written and illustrated by Anglo and Mexican-American ranch children. It appeared from 1932 to 1943 at five different rural schools in Southern Arizona, where Eulalia Bourne was the teacher. Most of the students who attended these one- or two- room schoolhouses, close to the Mexican border, were bilingual and bicultural. Some were the sons and daughters of pioneer Mexican and American ranch families; others were children of ranch hands working for large landowners; and a few were temporary students from families living on mining claims or road camps. Their original and unedited stories and drawings vividly describe their lives on isolated ranches, and the everyday and special events throughout the school year at Redington, Baboquivari, Sasco, San Fernando, and Sopori schools. At this site you will find Little Cowpuncher online, looking as much like the originals as possible. Sets of the actual newspapers are in the Special Collections Room at the University of Arizona Library, as well as The Arizona Historical Society, both located in Tucson, Arizona.

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Molecular Biology and Evolution
Molecular Biology and Evolution

mbe.library.arizona.edu/

The Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution has published this bi-monthly journal since 1984. More than a decade of back issues have been converted to PDF files. (Indices of more recent issues.)


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The Southwest Thesaurus
The Southwest Thesaurus

www.swt.arizona.edu/

The Southwest Thesaurus (SWT) was developed in partnership with the Office of Distributed Learning and the School of Information Resources and Library Science. The SWT combines vocabularies from the cultural, scientific and geographic disciplines found in various collections in existence at the University of Arizona. This combined vocabulary can be used as a tool for faculty, researchers, students and librarians to classify and search for information on issues related to the Southwestern U.S. The Southwest Thesaurus team created and maintains the thesaurus in cooperation with teaching faculty in the School of Information Resources and Library Science. This provides hands on experience to students, supplementing learning theory.

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Tree of Life
Tree of Life

tolweb.org/

The Tree of Life Web Project is a collaborative project, produced by biologists from around the world, containing information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their history, and characteristics. The information is linked together in the form of the evolutionary tree that connects all organisms to each other. The new, dynamically generated ToL site live and can be viewed by clicking on the URL or screenshot in this box.

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Western Waters
Western Waters

water.library.arizona.edu/

This project arose out of an Internship by a graduate student, Melinda Hardman, in the School of Information Resources and Library Science at The University of Arizona, in Tucson, under the direction of Ms. Atifa R. Rawan, Government Documents Librarian. The purpose of the project was to identify all Government Documents, from 1700 - 1900, which directly address water rights of the Navajo, Hopi, and Pima Indian Tribes in Arizona. Some documents from additional sources were included as well. The collections searched were the University of Arizona Main Library, Law Library, Special Collections, and the Arizona State Museum Library.

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