LOST ARIZONA MINERAL COLLECTIONS

摘要

Mineral collecting was rampant in the Arizona Territory, before statehood was achieved in 1912. The excitement was fed by specimens emerging from bonanza mines in every county. Early newspapers tell of those richly historic specimen cabinets exhibited not only in private homes but in saloons, hotels, assay offices newspaper offices, schools and even barber shops, drug stores and cigar stores, nearly all of which are now lost to history.