Oral History
Interviewee: Neil F. Blair (b. 08/25/1911 – d. 05/22/1984)
Interviewer: Glenna Sanders
Audio Number: 171
Duration: 00:21:06
Date: May 26, 1978
Acquisition Number: ACC# 2021.046
Topics Discussed: Blair discusses Jim "J.R." Williams - his life and work as a cartoonist and the K4 Ranch.
Lecture / Presentation
Title: Early Prescott Education
Presenter: Gail Irwin Gardner (b. 12/25/1892 - d. 11/23/1988)
Audio Number: 719B
Duration: 00:25:53
Date: 1961
Acquisition Number: ACC# 90.007
Topics Discussed: Prescott Schools in the 1900s; Washington School; Territorial Building; Miller Valley School; Recreation; Early Prescott High School Graduating Classes: Pastime Entertainments; July 4th Celebrations; Hose Races; Dudes, Toughs, OK’s and Hook & Ladders Fire Department Teams; Miner’s Drilling Contests; Children’s’ Sports; Bicycle Races, Bull Races; Pie Eating Contests; Jack Shull; Chinese History in Prescott: population, restaurants, laundries, and vegetable gardens; Joss House; Chinese New Year; Chinese kites; Chinese funerals and customs; 1900 gold, silver and currency; Sam Hill Hardware Store; Goldwater’s Store; Moore Insurance; Hazeltine Bank; First National Bank of Arizona & Deliveries Issues to Prescott.
Oral History
Interviewee: Charles Blanton (b. 07/24/1907 – d. 03/16/2001)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 993
Duration: 00:54:34
Date: November 18, 1993
Topics Discussed: Blanton Family History, Owl Drug & Candy Company; Chinese Gardens; Railway Mail Service; His marriage in England; Various businesses in Prescott area and Yavapai County Fairgrounds, c. 1914–1917.
Oral History
Interviewee: Gail Irwin Gardner (b. 12/25/1892 - d. 11/23/1988) & Delia (Gist) Gardner (b. 06/28/1900 - d. 04/18/1990)
Interviewer: Don van Doren
Audio Number: 714
Duration: 00:44:08
Date: October 24, 1982
Acquisition Number: ACC# 2022.003
Topics Discussed: Prescott History, Prescott's Tunnel Myths, Chinese Culture in Prescott, Gardner Family History.
Oral History
Interviewee: Elsie Blanton (b. 07/xx/1920 – d. 04/11/2015)
Interviewer: Sylvia Neely
Audio Number: 1295
Duration: 00:59:48
Date: July 6, 1999
Topics Discussed: Dansey/Dansy & Blanton Family History; London, England during World War II; Prescott Schools; Prescott Girl Scouts, Prescott Fine Arts Association; Yavapai Symphony Guild; Washington School PTA and Memories of Prescott businesses and people, 1940s to 1990s.
Westerners Presentation
Title: Reminiscences of Prohibition in Yavapai County
Presenter: Gail Gardner
Audio Number: 26
Duration: 01:01:55
Date of Presentation: October 4, 1968
Oral History
Interviewee: Donald Lawrence Bloom (b. 10/24/1916 – d. 10/14/2016)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 963
Duration: 00:38:11
Date: March 10, 1993
Topics Discussed: Bloom Family History; Jerome, c. 1937; Arizona Teachers College; Swedish Communities and Rohrer-Bloom Drugstore business in Prescott, 1946-1981.
Westerners Presentation
Title: The Smoki People, Inc. History
Presenter: Gail Gardner
Audio Number: 145A (Side 1)
Duration: 00:21:17
Date of Presentation: August 6, 1982
Oral History
Interviewee: Keith Bochat (b. 02/22/1940 – d. xx/xx/xxxx)
Interviewer: Sylvia Neely
Audio Number: 1299
Duration: 01:01:24
Date: October 12, 1999
Topics Discussed: Bochat family history, Prescott and Verde Valley history, Miller Valley School, Bristow family, Ralston family, Middle Verde, Arizona
Oral History
Interviewee: Ray Gardner (b. 07/28/1922 – d. 02/14/2015)
Interviewer: Sylvia Neely
Audio Number: 1404
Duration: 01:00:50
Date: May 9, 2002
Topics Discussed: Camp Friendly Pines, cowboy music, Mayer schools, Reata Pass