PBA Galleries

Real photo postcards are 9x14 cm., loose in corner splits on album leaves. Album is 14x20 cm. (5½x8"), paper wrappers.

Captivating photographs of Arizona at the start of the 20th century, including important views of the town of Clarkdale, which was founded in 1912 as a company smelter town by William A. Clark, for his United Verde copper mine in nearby Jerome, Arizona. Clarkdale was built next to one of the most modern mining towns in the world (Jerome, AZ), including telephone, telegraph, electrical, sewer and spring water services, and was an early example of a planned community. Four are captioned, two were sent through the mail, with messages. Includes: "Some of our teams grading the road between Cottonwood & Clarkdale Ariz."; two carpenters with their tools; "Clarksdale, Ariz. The baptism of Jordan in River Verde which is contrary to biblical lore"; "This was the merry-go-round connected with the carnival show that visited Clarkdale Arizona some weeks ago - it was well patronized by the Mexicans & Indians"; three views of Clarkdale with extensive damage from a fire which occurred December 23, 1914; crops etc. in Yuma Arizona (this postcard actually mailed, to a woman in Texas); tractor pulling hay carts in Yuma (this one send to woman in Cottonwood, AZ; four men standing holding rifles; etc.