Historic Photos of Phoenix

by Eduardo Obregon Pagan (Text by)

Overview

With the coming of the railroad in the late nineteenth century, the town of Phoenix in the Territory of Arizona would experience a rapid inflow of settlers who would call themselves Phoenicians and help to bring about Arizona statehood in 1912.

The images collected in Historic Photos of Phoenix offer a remarkable glimpse into the history of this unique desert community. Included among hundreds of photographs are snapshots of the Hotel Adams and Westward Ho, Riverside and South Mountain parks, the Cave Creek Flood of 1905, the Santa Fe Prescott and Phoenix Railway Depot, George Hunt as the first governor of the State of Arizona, the State Capitol, the Phoenix Senators baseball team, Thanksgiving Day 1899, Arizona's Rough Riders, Camelback Mountain, and countless others.

Published in striking black and white, these images communicate the historic events and everyday life of two centuries of people and two centuries of America. Historic Photos of Phoenix is sure to captivate anyone curious about the region's past, from the student of history to the local history buff.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781596523753
Publisher:	TURNER PUB CO
Publication date:	11/01/2007
Series:	Historic Photos
Pages:	206
Sales rank:	1,091,966
Product dimensions:	10.34(w) x 10.36(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Eduardo Obregón Pagán was born and raised in the valley. He received a B.A. from Arizona State University, an M.A. from the University of Arizona, and an A.M. and Ph.D. from Princeton University in U.S. history. Before returning to ASU, Dr. Pagán was a faculty member at Williams College in Massachusetts and a senior program officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D.C.

What People are Saying About This

Stephen Des Georges

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a couple hundred pictures and the stories behind them are worth a Glyph Award, according to the Arizona Book Publishing Association (ABPA), which has presented its version of the Emmy to "Historic Photos of Phoenix", by Arizona State University Associate Professor Eduardo Obregón Pagán. The book was recognized by the ABPA in the Coffee Table-Large Format category. It is published by Turner Publishing, an award-winning, independent publisher of specialty and trade titles headquartered in Nashville, Tenn. Jessica Tribble, chair of the ABPA's Arizona Book Awards, says Pagán's effort hit a pair of moving targets. "The coffee table book, in my opinion, must serve a difficult double role it must be both visually stunning and editorially engaging. It employs high-resolution digital photographs that require nearly as much qualitative text to thoroughly engage the reader. The judges and the ABPA believe Dr. Pagán and Turner Publishing skillfully achieved both of these goals."--(Stephen Des Georges, Arizona State University Newsletter Public Relations Director)