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Sedona Museum Offers Arizona Memory Project

sedona museum Anne Jordan Football Queen 1949Sedona AZ (August 30, 2013) – The Sedona Heritage Museum proudly announces that it has added another collection to the Arizona Memory Project’s online system. The new addition includes historic photographs, contemporary photos and history of the Bristow and Jordan families as interpreted through a collection of family clothing.

Based on the One Family’s Closet exhibit held at the Sedona Heritage Museum in spring 2013, the online collection features nine focus areas representing clothing from 1912-1962, including items that belonged to various members of an Arizona pioneer family –  Annie Bristow Jordan, Ruth Woolf Jordan, Anne Jordan Jackson, Helen Jordan, and others.

Fortunately throughout the years, the Jordan family saved sentimental and special clothing items as well as many photographs. The family children were told the stories behind the memorabilia, spurring generational interest in the care and preservation of the collection.

sedona museum Football Queen Dress and CrownThe exhibit and the creation of the virtual collection at AMP was a collaboration between Sally Jackson and the Sedona Historical Museum. Sally is the granddaughter of Walter and Ruth Jordan; the Museum is housed in the Jordan’s’ original home and farm buildings. As a member of Prescott Area Leadership (PAL), this project was part of Sally’s second year commitment to the PAL program. Before the exhibit was dismantled, museum volunteer Kim Kapin photographed the collection.

The Arizona Memory Project is an Arizona Centennial Legacy Project made possible in part by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services to Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records. AMP is open to any Arizona cultural institution interested in online digital holdings.

Anyone can visit the online collections by going to www.azmemory.azlibrary.gov – the Sedona collection is featured on the Home page as a new addition.

The Sedona Historical Society operates the Sedona Heritage Museum in Jordan Historical Park, 735 Jordan Road, uptown Sedona, Arizona. The Museum is open 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. daily.

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