Early Phoenix

With a master of arts in Southwest and Arizona history, author Kathleen Garcia has worked at the Phoenix Public Library for 20 years, the last 13 in the Arizona History Room. During her time there, Garcia has worked on a digitization project of Phoenixphotographs from the public library’s James H. McClintock Collection and the Phoenix Museum of History’s image collection. It is from this digitization project that the majority of photographs for this book have been drawn.

出版者:Arcadia Publishing

作者:Kathleen Garcia

页数:128 pages

出版时间:May 26, 2008

价格:$19.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780738548395

Like the mythical bird it is named after, Phoenix rose from the desert heat to become a prosperous and vital city. Settled on the lands of the ancient Hohokam Indians, Phoenix began as an agricultural community in the 1860s. It was appointed county seat

of Maricopa County in 1871 and territorial capital in 1889. By 1900, town boosters were calling Phoenix an “Oasis in the Desert” and the “Denver of the Southwest.” By 1920, Phoenix was on its way to being a metropolitan city with a population of 29,053 and sporting an eight-story “skyscraper.” Many farsighted individuals documented this development through photographs, allowing today’s residents to see the community’s amazing growth from small town to big city.