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Martin Koehler Papers

 Collection
Identifier: NC1360
Abstract

Martin Koehler was a member of the Metropolitan Community Church of the Sierra and a northern Nevada gay rights activist. The collection contains posters, newspaper clippings, meeting minutes, and brochures regarding the Church as well as other gay rights activities in which Koehler participated.

Dates: 1979-2005; Majority of material found within 1979-1991

Looking Backwards

 Collection
Identifier: 97-22
Abstract

Lela Halsell Hempton's memoirs reveal her life as a child on a family farm in southwest Missouri; the family's move to Columbia, near Goldfield, Nevada, in 1904; childhood on the Nevada frontier; education, early teaching career in rural Nevada schools, and married life. Material from 1975.

Dates: 1975

Effie Mona Mack Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 82-03
Abstract

Effie Mona Mack (1888-1969) was an American historian, educator, and textbook co-author. The collection contains edited manuscript, photographs and maps for Mack's book on the history of Nevada to 1864 (1935) as well as her syllabus prepared for a high school history class on the history of Nevada (1945).

Dates: 1935; 1945

Henry Curtis Morris Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 95-11
Abstract Henry Curtis Morris was a mining engineer in Nevada and the west from about 1900-1915, employed by the United States Bureau of Mines in Washington, D.C., and author of two books of reminiscences about his mining career: Desert Gold and Total Prospecting (1955) and The Mining West at the Turn of the Century (1962). Letters to and from Henry Curtis Morris related to his research on mining in Nevada in the early years of the 20th century include those from historians and authors William B....
Dates: 1945-1963

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Reno-Sparks Branch Records

 Collection
Identifier: NC18
Abstrac

The collection contains administrative records such as minutes, financial documents, and membership rolls for The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Reno-Sparks Branch and The Society to Underwrite Racial Equality (SURE). In addition the series documents the status of racial discrimination in the Reno-Sparks area through the varied surveys and reports and materials from the national NAACP organization (1951-1965).

Dates: 1951-1965

William Neely Letter

 Collection
Identifier: NC1095
Abstract

Letter to Neely's nephew written from Virginia City, Nevada describing ceremonies planned for Nevada's admission to statehood, difficult financial conditions, his employment as a miner, the weather, and advice to the nephew to stay at home.

Dates: 1864

Nevada; A Guide to the Silver State

 Collection
Identifier: 90-63
Abstract

Research papers on Nevada, written in preparation of the publication by the same title. These papers included research which was rewritten or omitted from the published edition.

Dates: circa 1940

Nevada and Great Basin Miscellaneous Documents (Vertical file)

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-09
Abstract

Materials were formerly known as the Special Collections Vertical file, and contains booklets, broadsides, brochures, newsletters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, postcards, reports and other resources that have been gathered through the years about a variety of organizations, people, places and topics relevant to the history and resources of Nevada and the Great Basin Region. There is a wide variation in the dates and kinds of information and resources available for each topic.

Dates: 1860-2013

Nevada Centennial Commission Records

 Collection
Identifier: NC53
Abstract

Nevada Centennial Commission was an organization formed to promote and plan for Nevada's statehood centennial celebration in 1964. Collection contains questionnaires from each county about early settlers in Nevada, press releases, bulletins, seal and medallion, and final report, from 1964.

Dates: 1964

Nevada comprehensive preservation plan

 Collection
Identifier: 90-35
Abstract

Comprehensive state-wide plan for historic preservation of cultural resources includes the following sub-units: land usage; transportation and communication; commerce and industry; government and politics; the people; social organizations and movements; and literature, arts and journalism.

Dates: 1989

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Names
Barber, Alicia 2
Church, James Edward, Jr., 1869-1959 2
First Baptist Church of Reno 2
Ratay, Myra Sauer 2
Taylor, Maude Sawin, 1889-1974 2
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University of Nevada, Reno 2
Adams, Brewster, 1879-1959 1
Adams, Edna Raymond 1
Aiazzi, David 1
Ainsworth, Cindy 1
Akert, Ben 1
Allec, Kevin (1960-) 1
Anderson, John 1
Angle family 1
Armstrong, Robert D., 1931-2010 1
Ascuaga, John J. 1
Ascuaga, Michonne 1
Ascuaga, Rose 1
Ascuaga, Stephen, 1968- 1
Auer, John Jeffery, IV 1
Avansino, Norm 1
Averett, Walter R. 1
Bailey, William, 1903- 1
Barnum, Lillian G. 1
Barrett, S. A. (Samuel Alfred), 1879-1965 1
Bassman, Henry 1
Beatty, William Blake, 1912-1990 1
Belaustegui, Dick 1
Benedict, Russell G. 1
Bernstein, Richard A. 1
Bertha (Elephant) 1
Bowman, Lulu 1
Brobant, Nelson 1
Brockliss family 1
Broili, June 1
Browne family 1
Browne, Howard E. (Howard Edgar), 1896-1990 1
Bullentini, Piero 1
Cafferata, Elisa 1
Canepa, Gaye 1
Carpenter, Kenneth 1
Chamberlain, Sharon 1
Charlatans (Musical group) 1
Church, Florence Humphrey 1
Cividino, Paolo 1
Clancy, Gwendolyn, 1951- 1
Clark, Casey 1
Clemens, Earle R., 1877-1943 1
Clemens, Elizabeth (Of Rhyolite, Nev.) 1
Coffin, Carrie 1
Colley, Nathaniel Sextus, 1918- 1
Conder, Tim 1
Cook, Sherburne Friend, 1896-1974 1
Cortez Mines, Ltd. 1
Cox, Don, 1946- 1
Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876 1
Cutter, Donald C. 1
Daughters of the American Revolution 1
Dave's VIP Club (Reno, Nevada) 1
Deal, Kelly 1
Deutsch, A. P. 1
Dibble, Andrew Comstock, 1845-1936 1
Dick Graves' Nugget (Reno, Nev.) 1
Dukes, Hope Shellenberger 1
Durham, Will 1
Ede, Les 1
Edwards, Mary Reid, 1912- 1
Erreguible, Lorraine 1
Erreguible, Louis 1
Evangelatos, Greg 1
Feroah, John 1
Fettic family 1
Fisher, C. L., Reverend 1
Flanigan Post Office (Nev.) 1
Flint, George 1
Footlight Press 1
Frank, Ralph 1
Fulkerson, Mary Lee, 1936- 1
Full, R. P. (Roy P.) 1
Fullenwider, Helen Angel 1
Garden Gate Club No. 2 (Washoe County, Nev.) 1
Gentry family 1
Gentry, Elizabeth Davis, 1825-1921 1
Gentry, Samuel, 1821-1915 1
George Peabody College for Teachers. Division of Surveys and Field Services 1
Gifford, Edward Winslow, 1887-1959 1
Golden, Francis Bernard, 1862-1911 1
Goldfield (Nev.) 1
Graves, Richard, 1912- 1
Gray, Paul 1
Green, Bally 1
Griswold family 1
Griswold, Gordon, 1900- 1
Griswold, Morley 1
Gruell, George E. 1
Hammond, Selina Walker 1
Harrington, Ann 1
Harris, George 1
Haviland family 1
Haviland, Vera May, 1903-1965 1
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