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Discover our unique research materials that document the diverse human and natural history of the Colorado Plateau and Northern Arizona.

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Featured collections Ellsworth Kolb with woman in a canoe on the Colorado River

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Featured topics Profile of Young Navajo Mother and Child, Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona. Wearing their traditional costume, they become part of the fascination of this redrock land. [Photographer's caption]

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An Interview with Mike DeHoff of the Returning Rapids Project

Posted by Cindy Summers on May 09, 2022

In the spring of 2020, SCA received a call from Mike Dehoff who modestly called himself a member of a “group of non-academic people following a curiosity.”  As a river runner and Moab business owner, Mike was in the process of forming a group that aspired to partner with non-profits to investigate rapids that were re- emerging in the Colorado River due to the mega drought.  Mike had discovered some Kolb film reels in our digital collections…

Update from the Archives

Posted by Cindy Summers on March 24, 2022

This month we celebrate two SCA team members for being honored with 2021 Service Awards from the Arizona Library Association.   Rich Boyd. AZLA 2021 Volunteer of the Year Award recipient.   In a future update we will learn about the projects Rich has been a part of over his many years of volunteering in Special Collections and Archives.  This time, however, we asked Sam Meier, Archivist for Discovery in SCA to tell us about an…

Old Rock Day

Posted by Cindy Summers on December 30, 2021

January 7th has been designated “Old Rock Day.”  A day to celebrate geology, fossils and geologists around the world.  We would like to honor two of our favorite ‘rock stars,” Peter Huntoon and George Billingsley who both have collections housed in Cline Library’s Special Collections and Archives.   As graduate students in 1970, these two giants of geology came together with six other geologists to complete an assignment funded by the Museum of Northern Arizona, the Grand Canyon Natural History Association…

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Special Collections and Archives
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Building 28
Cline Library, 2nd floor
1001 S. Knoles Drive
Flagstaff, Arizona 86001
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PO Box 6022
Flagstaff, Arizona 86001
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