The Fearless Mirror Makers of the Arizona Territory Arizona and the Southwest were virtually unknown in the middle of the 19th century. A few...
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Jeremy Rowe
Lost Photo of Crook’s Scout Discovered?
John Campbell Burge is one of my favorite Territorial Arizona photographers. Though his work is less common than other early Arizona photographers,...
Music to Our Eyes
Across the bottom of a half-plate tintype, in the emulsion, was scribed, “Camp Verde, Arizona.” The 1871 image, the earliest identified tintype...
Portrait of America
Shamoon Zamir’s The Gift of the Face: Portraiture and Time in Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian provides a spectacularly researched...
Dr. Jeremy Rowe
I started collecting because I caught the bug—first reacting to the images, then to their context and history, and finally to the process of...
A Brave New World
Arizona evolved slowly before the American Civil War. The 1860 census reported a population of only 6,482 people with 4,040 listed as American...
Are These Arizona Rangers?
Increasing demand for identified historic photographs has driven both the hunt by collectors and the research related to these images. Attributions...