PARTNERS

The Foundation has proprietary rights to collections that are housed with our Archival Partners listed below. We are working with each Partner to not only digitize and preserve the collections, but to collaborate with them in creating future exhibits, events and programs.

In addition we have culitvated other key partnerships to help build educational platforms and further our mission.

Built in 1966, the Charles Trumbull Hayden Library sits at the center of ASU’s Tempe campus, and is the largest and most visited library facility at Arizona State University, receiving more than 1.5 million visitors each year.

The iconic library, named for Tempe’s founder, celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2016, a yearlong event that highlighted the historic building’s past and looked ahead to its future, which included a major renovation in an effort to make Hayden Library more accessible and engaging and its resources more visible and user-friendly.

With a focus on multicultural histories of Arizona and the Southwest, ASU Library is home to six nationally and internationally renowned research collections, featuring millions of items and serving as an increasingly critical resource to historians, the local community, and students and scholars worldwide.

The Barry M. Goldwater Historic Photograph Collection and Fine Arts Photograph Collection were donated by him to the Arizona Historical Foundation in the 1960’s, and then transferred to the Arizona State University’s Hayden Library: Greater Arizona Collection in 2012. Now part of their Read about our partnership here group, this collection houses photographs showing a variety of subjects pertaining to Arizona, including views of desert flora and fauna, landscapes, military, mining, Native Americans, agriculture, buildings, street scenes, transportation, and people and places.

Contributing to a ‘greater’ understanding of the region, its people and places through a vast collection of resource materials on Arizona and the Southwest, the Greater Arizona Collection includes personal papers, photographs, organizational and business records, congressional and political papers, and community-centered materials. It features a variety of primary and secondary resources documenting politics, mining, labor history, Phoenix history, water and land management, organizational history and community-based history.

The U.S. Congressional Research Collection, includes the papers of a number of Arizona senators and congressmen, including Carl T. Hayden, Barry M. Goldwater and John J. Rhodes. The personal and political papers of Barry M. Goldwater span over 100 years. In addition to extensive legislative, personal correspondence and campaign files, the collection includes microfilm, photographs, audio-visual material, artifacts, cartoons, clippings, albums, and memorabilia. Visit at https://lib.asu.edu/hayden

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Since its founding in 1929, the Heard Museum has grown in size and stature to become recognized internationally for the quality of its collections, world-class exhibitions, educational programming, and its unmatched festivals. Dedicated to the advancement of American Indian art, the Heard successfully presents the stories of American Indian people from a first-person perspective, as well as exhibitions that showcase the beauty and vitality of traditional and contemporary art.

In 1967, a major expansion created the museum’s first collections storage area, a new auditorium and two floors of galleries, including one gallery designed to present the Goldwater Katsina Doll Collection that Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona had given to the museum in 1964.

The Heard also houses a substantial portion of the Goldwater Family Collection archive of Barry M. Goldwater Photography, including Goldwater’s spectacular color slide collection, which was generously donated to the Heard Museum by his son Michael Goldwater in 1993. This extraordinary and rare collection comprises nearly 1000 color slides and contains some of the earliest color landscape photographs of the Navajo and Hopi tribal lands, the state of Arizona, and geographical areas that have long disappeared since the creation of Lake Powell. Using primarily Kodachrome film introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1935, Goldwater adopted the new technology and photographed and developed color slides for his personal pleasure as well as for lectures and publications. Curated by the Heard and on exhibition now, is: Through the Lens of Barry Goldwater, which features selected prints made from the color slide collection. This exhibit also includes a rare showing of computer artist Robert Silvers’ photomosaic portrait of Barry Goldwater. Silvers utilized nearly a thousand of Goldwater’s images from the Heard Museum’s Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives collection to create a nearly life-sized image. These photographic memories underlie the rich life of Barry Goldwater as observer and adventurer and come together to let us marvel in the magic of this 21st-century art form.

For more information go to www.heard.org

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The Center for Creative Photography is recognized as one of the world’s finest academic art museums and study centers for the history of photography. The Center opened in 1975, following a meeting between then University President Dr. John Schaefer and world-renowned photography Ansel Adams. Beginning with the archives of five living master photographers—Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer—the collection has grown to include 270 archival collections. Among these are some of the most recognizable names in 20th century North American photography: Lola Álvarez Bravo, W. Eugene Smith, Edward Weston, and Garry Winogrand. Altogether there are over eight million archival objects in the Center’s collection including negatives, work prints, contact sheets, albums, scrapbooks, correspondence, writings, audiovisual materials and memorabilia. In addition to whole archival collections the Center also actively acquires individual photographs by modern and contemporary photographers. There are currently more than 110,000 works by over 2,200 photographers. A library of books, journals, and exhibition and auction catalogs including many rare publications plus an extensive oral history collection complements the archival and fine print collections. The combined art, archival, and research collections at the Center provide an unparalleled resource for research, exhibitions, loans, and traveling exhibitions.

The Center has a full schedule of exhibitions, programs, and events designed to deepen an understanding of how the medium impacts society. For more details, as well as information on Center membership and ways to get involved visit ccp.arizona.edu/home.

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A Smithsonian Affiliate since its opening in 2015, Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West (SMoW) has been repeatedly named “Best Western Museum” in the nation (True West magazine). Celebrating the West and its importance by informing, educating, inspiring, and engaging museum guests, SMoW offers high-quality exhibitions, educational programs, and community outreach addressing regional history; particularly as reflected by the arts and the dynamic cultural exchanges that have marked the transition of the Old West into the New West.

On January 5, 2019, in collaboration with the Barry & Peggy Goldwater Foundation and Arizona Highways magazine, Scottsdale’s Museum of the West premiered the exhibit, Photographs by Barry M Goldwater: The Arizona Highways Collection. Presented by SRP, with Commemorative Sponsors, Charles F., Jennifer E., and John U. Sands, this exhibition features the largest showcase of photographs by the late Senator Goldwater to-date and includes intimate family photos and personal items. Due to overwhelming public response, the exhibit (originally scheduled through June of 2019) has been extended and will now be showing through April 5th, 2020.

The Barry and Peggy Goldwater Foundation looks forward to partnering with SMoW in future projects and in traveling this exhibit to other museums around the globe. Our heartfelt gratitude goes to Mike Fox, the museum’s Director and CEO; Tricia Loscher, Assistant Museum Director – Collections, Exhibitions, & Research; the entire SMoW Board of Directors and especially to Charles F., Jennifer E., and John U. Sands, Commemorative Sponsors. Visit at https://scottsdalemuseumwest.org/

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