Westerners Presentation
Title: Drawing the Line: The United States & Mexican Border
Presenter: Bernard L. Fontana
Audio Number: 146B (Side 2)
Duration: 00:41:42
Date of Presentation: December 3, 1982
Oral History
Interviewee: Louise (Overstreet) Baribeau (b. 04/02/1927 – d. xx/xx/xxxx)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 884-885
Duration: 01:28:16
Date: September 23, 1991
Topics Discussed: World War II in Prescott and Overstreet Family History
Oral History
Interviewee: Florida "Flora" Appalonia (Gilardi) Fornara (b. 04/18/1908 – d. 11/16/1998) and Elvezia (Gilardi) Fornara (b. 06/08/1910 – d. 02/09/1995)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 891
Duration: 01:02:02
Date: October 26, 1991
Topics Discussed: Gilardi, Fornara, Rezzonico family history 1900s to 1990s, Senator Mine, Mata Dexter, Clarkdale and Jerome Dairies 1922-1926, Italian community in Prescott
Sharlot Hall Museum
Title: Historical Preservation & Bashford House
Presenter: Professional Announcer
Audio Number: 82
Date: Unknown Date
Duration: 00:07:26
Acquisition Number: ACC# 2022.002
Topics Discussed: Professional announcer discusses cultural heirlooms, historic preservation, Prescott houses and Bashford House.
Oral History
Interviewee: Mae B. Bast (b. 05/21/1913 – d. 09/12/1996)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 958
Duration: 00:58:53
Date: February 16, 1993
Topics Discussed: Prescott Mother's Club 1940, Waldo Bast, Fort Whipple c. 1929, Prescottonians 1930-1945, Kate Cory, Tex Ritter, Smoki member
Westerners Presentation
Title: The Development of Firearms
Presenter: Thomas Foster
Audio Number: 88A (Side 1)
Duration: 00:45:42
Date of Presentation: December 5, 1975
Oral History
Interviewee: Grace (Geissensetter) Foudy (b. 09/13/1916 – d. 01/15/2004)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1119
Duration: 00:27:43
Date: March 21, 1996
Topics Discussed: Pine Crest Historical District, Richard Nixon family c.1930, St. Joseph Academy 1930-1935, Prescott Frontier Days Rodeo and Parade c. 1930s
Oral History
Interviewee: William "Bill" G. Bate (b. 07/12/1909 – d. 07/30/1996)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1019, 1020 & 1020A
Duration: 01:59:14 and 01:01:50
Date: July 18, & September 15, 1994
Topics Discussed: Thomas Henry Bate Family History, New Years in Prescott c. 1910, Rosenblatt Family, Marks House, Prescott Iron Works, Mund's House, Sharlot M. Hall, Grace Sparkes, Boy Scouts J. S. Acker, Elks Building, Bate Photo Studio, Orchard Ranch, Andres Family and Henry Brinkmeyer Family, Jacob Marx, Burt Tilton, Prescott's Chinatown, Sam Steiger, and the Santa Fe Farm at Del Rio
Westerners Presentation
Title: Expulsion of the Jesuits
Presenter: Father Francis Fox
Audio Number: 87B
Duration: Unknown
Date of Presentation: January 1, 1970
Oral History
Interviewee: Lucy (Turley) Bates (b. 06/30/1888 – d. xx/xx/xxxx)
Interviewer: Virginia Rice
Audio Number: 1433
Duration: 01:26:46
Date: November 22, 1974
Topics Discussed: Early Chino Valley, Dry Farm Experiment Station, Mormon migration from Utah, Snowflake, University of Arizona Demonstration Train, Jerome Junction, First well dug in Chino Valey and its water problems, Cooking for Chino Valley School children