Ford Tri-Motor #9606. "City of Columbus"
Kingman Airport (Possibly at dedication 25 June 1929) ushering in the era of Kingman becoming an important link in transcontinental air service."Port Kingman" as the airport was called, was the first...
View ArticleExterior View of Harvey House.
Exterior view of Harvey House, Santa Fe Eating House, a locomotive is puffing down the tracks. An "Ore Monument" made of stones and a wooden fence are at the side. Man to left of monument is F. C....
View ArticleMay Day 1891 Kingman, Arizona
"Picnic to Jack Johnsons. First stagecoach owned by Taggart and Beecher." Richard Taggart and Gus Beecher were prominent local merchants in Kingman and Mineral Park. This is probably a Taggart and...
View ArticleCool Springs Cabins
Auto Court, service station and restaurant. Three cars are parked in front of the cabins. Located 20 miles west of Kingman on Highway 66, Cool Springs was operated by Floyd and Mary (Walker) Spidell...
View ArticleRiverview Court
Taylor's Conoco Station 7 mi west of Oatman (old Highway 66)" A tow truck is on the right and a car is parked under the canopy. Probably located on the flats and the straight part of the Highway past...
View ArticleOld Trails Garage and store
Old Trails garage and store between 3rd and 4th Streets on Andy Devine Avenue west of the Brunswick Hotel. The garage was believed to have been built about 1914. Early proprietors apparently were...
View ArticleFront Street
Flatbed freight truck in front of the Lovin and Withers store on Front Street (Andy Devine Avenue) in Kingman at the corner of 4th Street. The truck's cargo is corrugated metal and lumber probably...
View ArticleGypsy Garden Auto Court and Gas Station
Gypsy Garden Auto Court and gas station is in the eastern section of Kingman proper on Front Street (Highway 66). Probably erected in the early 1930s, the proprietors were Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Jones....
View ArticleLooking North on 4th St.- July 4th
Looking North on 4th St, Kingman, Arizona on 4th of July. Court House in background, Central Commercial and Arizona Bank on right, I.M. George Meat Market and Elks Lodge 468 on left. Caption: "parking...
View ArticleView of City Cafe and Texaco Station
Postcard view of the City Café on Route 66 in the Hilltop section of East Kingman. Built by Roy Walker about 1939-1942, the City Café served local residents as well as the ever increasing tourist...
View ArticleBoulder Dam Ferry
Pictured here is one of the ferry boats that operated in Black Canyon above the Boulder Dam construction Site between 1931 and 1935. There were apparently a number of ferry systems that crossed Black...
View ArticleKay Family from Chloride
The Kay family was an early Mohave County pioneer family instrumental in developing mining properties in the Chloride-Mineral Park area. John Kay, the partriarch of the family arrived in the area about...
View ArticleCity Stables, Stage Office
This image is from a glass plate in the Museum Collection, believed to be a Tarr Studios Photo. Photo was in November 1932 Mohave Miner, Golden Anniversary Edition. Caption read:"Six of the eight...
View ArticleTavern and Cafe Kingman Arizona
"The Lewis Café and Tavern on Route 66 between 6th and 7th Streets." Charlie Lum, in the center of the postcard photo, came to Kingman from China in 1922 to work in his father's White House Café....
View ArticleHorse Drawn Surry
Fletcher Talbert and Ora Gruninger families on a Sunday outing near Kingman, Arizona ca. 1910. Mr. Talbert may have been connected to Richard Taggart, a prominent Kingman business man who partnered...
View ArticleBus Stop and Service Center
"Clipper" passenger bus in front of passenger depot - Beale Street. Arthur F. Black established the "Boulder Dam Stage Line" in Kingman, Arizona in 1920. Mr. Black came to Mohave County early and...
View ArticleKingman Transfer Company
Sumner H. Beecher and his Kingman Transfer Company. A triangular sign on the Reliance truck reads "Randolph, Reliance, Rapid Agent." Mr. Beecher was born in Kingman in 1886 and believed to have been...
View ArticleFreight Wagon and Team
Freight wagon and team of eight matching white horses in front of the Beale Hotel, Kingman Mercantile store, I.M. George Men's Clothing and Lovin & Withers Mercantile store on Front Street,...
View ArticleProspectors on Front Street in front of Arizona Stores Company
Prospecting outfitters, J.H. Harry Knight and Raymond H. Carr were two early Mohave County pioneers who arrived in the 1890's and involved themselves in mining and business ventures. In 1916 Carr was a...
View ArticleStagecoach and Team of Six Horses
Stagecoach from Kingman to Chloride and White Hills in 1908. Picture taken at 4th Street and Front Street in Kingman, Arizona. Lovin and Withers Store behind stagecoach. Two story building in left...
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