Scottsdale Heritage Connection

The Scottsdale Heritage Connection (SHC) is a collection of print and digital materials about the history of the Scottsdale area.

Discover Local History

Explore digital images; school yearbooks; oral histories; books, newspapers, and periodicals; files of articles, pamphlets, and documents; Scottsdale residential and business directories and more.

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Scottsdale Heritage Connection Room

Located at the Civic Center Library, the Scottsdale Heritage Connection Room is open during all library hours. Effective June 2020, for access to locked research materials please submit a request below.

Food and drink is not permitted in the SHC Room due to rare materials.

Access and Contribute to our Collection

Request a high-resolution digital copy
of one of our historical images.

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Request to view physical items from the
Scottsdale Heritage Connection.

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Featured Materials

The Evans Family Collection

Enjoy images from our new digital collection of the Scottsdale artist Jessie Benton Evans (1866-1954) and her family. She was a painter known famous for her Western landscapes and her son Robert was a prominent local architect.

The SCC Student Newspapers

A new recently added collection is the Scottsdale Community College student newspapers over the years (1970-2012). Check out what those students were up to back when.

Scottsdale City Cable Films

Enjoy some of the historical films produced by Scottsdale's City Cable group over the years.

Women in Scottsdale History

Browse through and learn about some of the important women who helped shape Scottsdale history!

Newspaper Archive

Full-text searchable articles from a wide variety of historical Arizona newspapers covering Arizona history from 1859 -2021. The collection includes more than 3+ million newspapers that covers the state from Apache Junction to Yuma! NewspaperARCHIVE makes exploring history and genealogy easy and fun. Discover fascinating news in archived newspapers hundreds of years old – including obituaries, birth announcements, sports articles, comics, and more – to fill in the life stories you are interested in. All of the historical newspapers are full-page and fully searchable!

Reading Arizona

Reading Arizona is a selection of nonfiction and fiction eBooks and Audiobooks for all ages interested in Arizona topics and themes. Content is provided through the Boundless app and supported by the Arizona State Library. Reading Arizona and Boundless - FAQ includes download instructions:

My Library - for ebooks
Featured List - for audiobooks

Scottsdale City Council History

Search city council history by year or name.

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