Annie Larkin As the Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum continues to bring history to its members, we have partnered with Gary Dillard to explore the fascinating information he provides on his website at https://bisbeehistory.com. Dillard is a Bisbee native and historian who is well known to many of us. He has worked as a journalist, editor, tour … Read more
Information is valuable. In museums and archives, the more information included with a donated collection, the better. If we have names, dates, and locations for photos and items, the collection is more useful to us and to researchers. Much of my work in the archives of the Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum involves scanning photos … Read more
While organizing items from the Bisbee Unified School District collection, I came across a puzzling three-page record. The writing in an elegant fountain pen references 1885, but the condition of the document hints at a more recent creation. Notice the second-to-last line on the first page, “copied from Judge Peel’s Books,” and “warrants” on page … Read more
The Bisbee Unified School District (BUSD) records, circa 1885-1925, are full of interesting stories from the past. A line item in a financial record shows BUSD bought a Steinway grand piano in 1918 for $1350, equivalent to about $30,000 today. The final price BUSD paid for the piano was $1215. It is hard to imagine … Read more
Hello, Bisbee history fans! My name is Gina, and I am the summer archives intern at the Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum. I look forward to sharing Bisbee stories I’ve found in the archives. As a graduate student in Library and Information Science with a focus on Archives, I am passionate about preserving history for … Read more