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Men on horses rounding up broncos. Tom Turner one of the foremen at Empire Ranch was known as a hard boss and his roundup hours were rather early and rather late which didn't please many cowboys.

A photograph of ximenia americana, also known as impinji, which is a plum-like fruit with strong prussic-acid smell. It was valued mainly because of the oil of the kernel.

A photograph of a path in a grassy area with grass burned off on the left side.

A palm like the Royal but not so good. Another fruiting below the leaf spathes. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 8, 1920]

Illustrated broadsheet with poem, 1524. From the collection of the German National Museum, Nuremberg.

A photograph of an indigenous field of peanuts and corn, which are known by the indigenous as "monkey nuts" and "mealies".

Original proposal for creating Women Studies Program at UA

Edward Vail's sketch about a Mexican dance put on by the Greaterville placer gold mining camp and the cowboys attempt to join the dance after the Mexican miners decided not to let the cowboys in.

A photograph of tricholaena rosea, a low grass about 1 feet high.

Printed broadside by the parish Priest José María del Refugio Guerra y Alva (ordained Bishop of Zacatecas on 29 December 1872) decrying the influx of prohibited books, brought into a the country from the United States. Chief among these banned…

A landing place, old cement steps. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

A green orange with thin skin - one cut. They are of fair quality but always green. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 7, 1920]

A photograph of a field of sweet potatoes, a staple crop here. There are also ant hills and dry forest in the far background.

A phtoograph of a field filled with corn, rice, cassava, and banana. There are also a few fallen trees over the area that dont interfer with this type of agriculture.

A photograph that shows alfalfa, horses, donkeys, a donkey wagon, and a sisal plantation in the background. There is a fence that's posts are made of old iron railroad ties in the foreground.

A photograph of a farm made by clearing the brush land.

Pan[orama] of Mattiato ranch. They have sunk 3 wells to 50 ft. ± and get good water - but very little of it. Are now putting new one 4 ft. wide and 30 to 40 long. Grow a few sweet potatoes, a squash or two, a few stalks of sugar cane, a hedge of…

Pan[orama] of Mattiato ranch. They have sunk 3 wells to 50 ft. ± and get good water - but very little of it. Are now putting new one 4 ft. wide and 30 to 40 long. Grow a few sweet potatoes, a squash or two, a few stalks of sugar cane, a hedge of…

A dhow and small boat at the side. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 8, 1920]

A Conference on the Energy Crisis '75: Problems, Proposals and Prospects, Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, California, April 26, 1975