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Arizona Archives Month 2009
This year's theme for Arizona Archives Month is
"Tough Times in a Tough Land "

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Your 2009 Archives Month Poster

We are eagerly awaiting the submissions for this year's poster. The deadline for submissions is 14 August. As long as your submission is postmarked by 14 August we will consider your photographs, documents or maps for inclusion on this year's poster.

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Join us and other Arizona repositories in celebrating Arizona Archives Month 2009. The purpose of Archives Month is to celebrate the value of Arizona's historical records, to publicize the many ways these records enrich our lives, to recognize those who maintain our communities' historical records and to increase public awareness of the importance of preserving historical records in repositories, institutions and tribal archives across the state. It's time to enlighten and enliven your communities, and to have some fun.

The theme of this year's Archives Month is "Tough Times in a Tough Land." During this year's Arizona Archives Month, October 2009, we encourage you to make a special effort to share your collections and expertise and to think of ways in which your organization or local government can celebrate Archives Month in your community.

The potential projects are varied and many, so let us know what you're planning, and we'll make sure it's publicized on our website. Contact Melanie Sturgeon or Wendi Goen. Both can be reached at (602) 926-3720.

Teacher at Ganado Presbyterian Mission (Image number 90-3334)

Suggested Activities for Archives

Among other things, you might sponsor

• A "behind the scenes" tour of your archives.
• A "who did that baby grow up to be?" featuring baby pictures of local people.
• Organize a children's activity around photographs or documents relating to youth.
• Talks by old timers on how they survived without air conditioning.
• Guided tours of historical houses and businesses with special emphasis on how the use of archives provided information about the history of the buildings.
• Exhibits of old photos, clothes, and artifacts loaned by locals.
• A re-enactment of a special event in your community's past.
• A lecture about your community's history.
• Workshops on family history.
• A presentation on preserving family history materials such as photographs or old letters.
• An "Appraisal Day" during which appraisers and antique dealers appraise the value of items brought in by townspeople.

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2009 Archives Month Activities at the Arizona State Archives

October 6

Open House :9am to 3pm      See some of the state’s most important treasures including the original Arizona Constitution. Take a tour of the new State Archives building. 10:30am, 11:30am and 12:30pm

Stump the Archivists and Librarians:  Bring your hardest questions on Arizona history to stump   the State Archives’ archivists and librarians.

PowerPoint presentation of the Polly Rosenbaum building:  The Polly Rosenbaum Archives and History building is only a year old. See slides of the construction from beginning to end.

Listen to oral histories of former legislators, veterans, and ERA advocates.:  Former Arizona legislators were interviewed as part of an Arizona Centennial project. Hear what these legislators had to say about Arizona and the government.

October 13

Special Collections Day:
9am to 3pm:  We invite you to view unique historical items in the collections of the Arizona State Archives.

• Maps
• Arizona Collection
• Record and Manuscript Groups
• Electronic
• Photographs
• Newspaper

October 20

Preservation Day:
10am to 1pm:  Bring your family photographs, documents, tapes or videos and find out how to preserve them.

Film Day: 1st floor Rosenbaum meeting room.  See 16mm films of Arizona from the 1960s

• “Grand Canyon”
• “Barry Goldwater’s Arizona”
• “Arizona & Sun City”

Oral Histories:  Listen to oral histories of early Sun City residents

October 28

Get ready for Halloween Day: Want to be scared?

Match the Crime to the Criminal contest:  Figure out who committed the crime from murder to politics
Flashlight tours:  10:30am, 11:30am and 12:30pm:  Take a scary tour in the dark of the huge storage areas of the State Archives and listen to stories of some of the more unusual records! Bring your jacket-its cold!! See unexpected ghosts of the past!

Please send us your Archives Month activities and we will add them to this page.

Don’t forget to pick up your free Archives Month Poster,

Available in the Archives Reading Room.
1901 West Madison
Phoenix, AZ 85009

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POP (Preserving Our Past) Award

In recognition of their efforts to support the preservation of Arizona's historical records the Arizona History and Archives Division presents the Preserving Our Past (POP) award to an institution or archives in the state. For their diligence, creativity and civic spirit, the City of Florence received the very first POP Award in 1998. POP award winners include:

• 1998 - City of Florence
• 1999 - Salt River Project (SRP)
• 2001 - Clarkdale Heritage Conservancy Board
• 2003 - Phoenix Police Museum
• 2006 - Friends of Arizona Archives (FAzA)

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The Arizona Historical Records Advisory Board and the National Archives and Records Administration, Pacific Region, generously sponsored this year's Arizona Archives Month poster.

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