How did the Hohokam (ho-ho-KAHA), build their Pithouse dwellings and make their tools. Archaeology Southwest bring this challenge to Steam Pump Ranch Heritage Garden as accomplished Archaeologists re-erect Honey Bee site Pithouse.
Procter Homestead Pictures and Documents
Legend of image information at the bottom of the page
Henry Zif Collection
2006 Book 17
Henry Zipf Photo Collection
Date of Collection: 2006
Book # 17
Page #: 2006.17.01 – 2006.17.12
2006.17.01 (Oversized) Large group gathered outside in front of mountains
2006.17.02 (Oversized) Arizona Legislature
2006.17.03 Gertrude Pusch at age 12
2006.17.04 George Pusch Jr at age 10
2006.17.05 Henrietta Louise Pusch
2006.17.06 Wilhelmina Pusch
2006.17.07 Fritz Lewis Pusch
2006.17.08 Mathilda Feldman Pusch
2006.17.09 Gertrude Pusch
2006.17.10 George Pusch Jr.
2006.17.11 2 unidentified daughters of George and Mathilda Pusch
2006.17.12 3 unidentified children of George and Mathilda Pusch
Henry Zipf Photo Collection
Date of Collection: 2006
# in series:
Page #: 2006.15.01 — 2006.15.46
2006.15.01 Gertrude Pusch Zipf aka ‘Tootsie”
2006.15.02 Man and woman on steps of 4th Ave House
2006.15.03 Two woman, one is Mable Hawkins other unknown
2006.15.04 Right side of table is back of the head of Hank talking to unidentified male,
Gustav Kanabe, Wife Wilemina, then at the end of the table is an unidentified child and Louis Marie Ballinger, next to her is Robert Kanabe, Fred Pusch and Mabel Pusch Hawkins.
2006.15.05 Two woman and a man on Mt. Lemmon by Hank Soldier’s Camp area
2006.15.06 Steam Pump Ranch red building 1
2006.15.07 Steam Pump Ranch red building 2
2006.15.08 two gentleman sitting on a Mt. Lemmon ranger tower
2006.15.09 From the right, Jim Hawkins, Mabel Hawkins, possibly holding the
Armstrong twins, Nancy and Barbara, then Hank Zipf.
2006.15.10 Grand Canyon Picture postcard addressed to Frank Zipf from Viola
2006.15.11 Unidentifed man on horse
2006.15.12 Six gentlemen in suits gathered outside
2006.15.13 Armstrong girls, Nancy, Janet and Barbara
2006.15.14 No id but could be Elsa, Paul and family
2006.15.15 Gertrude and friends on Mt. Lemmon for the summer
2006.15.16 Young people on Mt. Lemmon
2006.15.17 Frank (Hardc’s brother), Robert Kanabe and Hank at Grandmother’s house at
428 S. 4th Ave in Tucson.
2006.15.18 two men and two women in school uniforms under tree
2006.15.19 family posed on rocks
2006.15.20 two couples in society dress
2006.15.21 couple in buggy with man standing at side
2006.15.22 a couple with another woman in buggy
2006.15.23 men and women under a tree
2006.15.24 Gertrude (2nd from the right) and friends
2006.15.25 Mabel Pusch Hawkins
2006.15.26 Picture postcard labeled “a street in Old Town”
2006.15.27 Mayor Engle presenting plaque for years of service on council to Vice
Mayor Henry Zipf.
2006.15.28 Hank on the left and Frank with dog, Ben at the Feldman Ranch
2006.15.29 Henry, Frank and friends
2006.15.30 Walter Feldman Pusch III
2006.15.31 Baby Walter on pony
2006.15.32 Louis Marie and Unknown
2006.15.33 Uncle Walter (George and Mathilda’s son) with child
2006.15.34 Henry and Frank
2006.15.35 Hank and Frank
2006.15.36 Hank and Frank in sailor outfits saluting with unknown girl
2006.15.37 Hank and Frank in sailor suits in front of house at N. Stone Ave.
2006.15.38 Frank, Henry and cousins
2006.15.39 Henry in cap and gown for high school graduation
2006.15.40 Walter Zipfs half brother and wife, Helen
2006.15.41 Back of lady walking on sidewalk at 28 S. 4th Ave
2006.15.42 Gertrude and Mabel Pusch
2006.15.43 Gertrude Pusch
2006.15.44 Group gathered at Arizona State Capital
2006.15.45 August 21, 1936 – boy in shirt, pants and boots holding something, could be
Walter
2006.15.46 Boy on horse with Steam Pump Ranch bunkhouses in background
Henry Zipf Photo Collection
Book Unknown
Book 5
Pusch Collection
Pictures and Photos
Date of Acquisition: 2006
# in series: 5
Page #: 2006.2.2 Photo #1 – 2006.2.2 Photo #18
2006.2.2 PhOl Young George Pusch
2006.2.2 Ph02 Horse and Buggy: 3 riders (date and place unknown)
2006.2.2 Ph03 December 9,1910: Members of the Arizona Constitution Convention
2 pictures, the lower one has member’s names written on it.
2006.2.2 Ph04 1914: Steam Pump Ranch House about 90 years ago.
2006.2.2 Ph05 1929: Steam Pump Ranch Building
2006.2.2 Ph06 1986: Steam Pump Ranch Building
2006.2.2 Ph07 October 18, 2003: Steam Pump Building
2006.2.2 Ph08 October 18, 2003: Steam Pump Ranch House (back view)
2006.2.2 Ph09 October 18, 2003: Steam Pump Ranch House (front view)
2006.2.2 Ph10 April 10, 1994: Pusch-Zellweger Ranch
2006.2.2 Phl 1 2 pictures: one vote for Henry Zipf Republican candidate for Supervisor,
District Number 2 Pima County and card with three small photos, one is of George, one of either Gertrude or Nonie.
2006.2.2 Ph12 Early picture of house downtown Tucson, AZ where Puschs and Zipfs lived
Believed to be house at 428 S. 4th Ave.
2006.2.2 Ph13 Article from Arizona Daily Star “You are architects of your record, Star told
Law makers 100 years ago”
2006.2.2 Ph14 7 pictures of the Pusch-Zelhveger (Feldman) Ranch
2006.2.2 Ph15 Large photo with the faces of several children and you people. Made in
Tucson, AZ but no additional information provided
2006.2.2 Ph16 19 miscellaneous post cards addressed to Zipfs.
Pusch Family History Collection
Ina Gittings, University of Nebraska in 1906, is shown in the earliest photograph of a woman vaulting.
INA GITTINGS
Ina Gittings
Pioneer Educator and Homesteader
By
Jim Williams
She was an early women’s educator, a community activist and a homesteader in Oro Valley. A major local roadway is named after her. Out how do you pronounce her name? Ina Gittings. You say EE-riah and I say EYE-nah? More on that later.
Ina sittings was born in 1885 in little Wilbur, Nebraska. Ina was a professional woman ahead of her time. She earned a university degree and led a successful, independent life. She never married.
Gittings graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1906. Her first job was OS a public school teacher in Lead, South Dakota. Ina served as a physical education instructor at the University of Nebraska from 1906-1909 and then spent six years as the director of women’s physical education at the University of Montana. She was a trailblazer in women’s athletics!
When America entered World War I in 1917, Ina Gittings left education and volunteered to go to France and serve as a physiotherapist, She helped the wounded young men to recover, After the war, she also served in relief efforts in Turkey.
-Miss Gittings came to teach and serve as Director of Women’s Physical Education at the University of Arizona in 1920. She completed a Master’s degree there in 1925 and continued to work at the University until 1955. She introduced female students to archery, track and field, horseback riding and other sports. Womenrs involvement in athletics was a new idea in the early twentieth century. Prior to that time.. girls were thought to be too frail for sports,
Before the 1970s, universities provided very little in funds or facilities for women’s athletics_ Men’s sports received the vast majority of athletic funds. ‘We struggled to get everything they [the girls] wanted to keep them interested. It was quite a battle sometimes, but we succeeded,” she later remembered. At one point, the women needed an extra athletic field for newly introduced sports. Only the Department of Agriculture’s onion fields were available. Ina won the battle and obtained the onion fields, but she and the female athletes first had to harvest the onions themselves.
Miss Gittings was very active in the Tucson community and in professional organizations. She served as the president of the National Women’s Overseas Service League of World war I. Ina was a member of the Tucson YWCA board and a charter member of the Alpha Phi sorority_ She often delivered talks on physical education and health to local organizations.
Ina Gittings was also one of Oro Valley’s early pioneers, She claimed two sections of federal land under the Homestead Acts in October, 1932. The sections totaled 480 acres. One parcel of 160 acres was located in what is now Rancho Vistoso, along Rancho Vistoso Boulevard and includes most of the Vistoso Vista subdivision. The other parcel, along what is now Ina Road, totaled 320 acres. This was located east of La Cholla Boulevard, between Magee Road and Ina Road. Homesteaders were required to build a residence to keep title to the land but did not have to live there full time. Miss Gittings had a home near the university and probably visited the homestead on weekends, as many Tucsonans did.
Ina Road was named for her Miss Gittings pronounced her name “E E-na h.” But our local Ina Road has come to be pronounced “EYE-nah.” She wrote letters to local newspapers complaining about people mispronouncing her road. Ina Road was unpaved when she homesteaded in Oro Valley in the early 193013s,
Professor Gittings stepped down from the position of Director of Women’s Physical Education in 1951. She kept her professorship and some teaching duties until fully retiring in 1S55. Richard Harvill, president of the University in the 196.0s, said “Miss Gittings served the University with complete dedication and competence for 35 years” and her influence on young women was well known and widely recognized.” She continued to deliver talks to community groups into the 1960s.
Ina Gittings died in 1966. The Gittings Memorial Fund was established in her honor. She is listed on the Women’s Plaza of Honor on the University of Arizona campus and Gittings Hall was s built in 1964 and named for her.When you drive on Ina Road, remember women’s educational pioneer and Oro Valley homesteader Ina (EE-nah) Gittings.
Published in OV Voice, May, 2014