TITLE: Dora Allen Photograph Collection
DATE RANGE: 1890s - 1912
CALL NUMBER: Y-PC #1
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: .5 linear ft. (1 box)
PROVENANCE: Unknown
COPYRIGHT: Yuma County Library District owns the copyright to this collection.
RESTRICTIONS: This collection is unrestricted.
CREDIT LINE: Dora Allen Photograph Collection, Y-PC 1, Yuma County Library District
PROCESSED BY: Rebekah Tabah, June 2014
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: In 1898, Dora Greer Allen came to Yuma with her family at the age of six. She lived in Yuma until 1912, when she married Henry Allen and moved to Hemet, California. However, Dora continued to make yearly visits to Yuma until 1925 when her parents also moved to California.
Dora’s father Andrew Y. Greer homesteaded in the Yuma Valley near Somerton. Before official government photographers were sent to Laguna Dam, Mr. Greer took pictures at the dam and sold them to the workers.
An interview with Mrs. Allen was conducted in 1964. See Yuma Biography Files: Allen, Dora; for more information.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE: This collection consists mostly of mounted prints, many taken by Andrew Greer. They document early Yuma, Yuma Valley, and the building of the Laguna Dam. The collection contains about 70 prints which range in condition from good to excellent. The photographs are arranged topically and chronologically within.
CONTAINER LIST:
| Box | Folder | Title | Dates |
| 1 | 1 | Allen Family | 1900s |
| 2 | Beechler’s Ostrich Farm | 1900s | |
| 3 | Castle Dome and Picacho Mine | 1900s | |
| 4 | Colorado River | 1900s | |
| 5 | F.E. Elliott | 1900s | |
| 6 | Fort Yuma Indian School | 1905 | |
| 7 | Groups (includes Arizona Commission of Agriculture) | 1900s | |
| 8 | Imperial Valley | 1900s | |
| 9 | Laguna Dam Construction (1 of 2) | 1903 - 1905 | |
| 10 | Laguna Dam Construction (2 of 2) (includes opening ceremony) | 1903 – 1905 | |
| 11 | Methodist Church of Yuma | 1900s | |
| 12 | Quechan Indian | ND | |
| 13 | Schools | 1900s | |
| 14 | Statehood Day in Yuma | 1912 | |
| 15 | Supply Wagons | 1900s | |
| 16 | Yuma Businesses (includes Gandolfo Hotel, Southern Pacific Hotel) | 1905 – 1908 | |
| 17 | Yuma Canal | 1900s | |
| 18 | Yuma Ice Plant | 1900s |
