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Mary Coffey Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 95-07
Abstract

Mary Coffey (1920-2009) was active in Nevada women's rights movements and organizations including Soroptimist International of Nevada. The collection consists primarily of materials related to her interests in women's rights movements and organizations.

Dates: 1974-1993

E. B. Coffin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: NC1062
Abstract

The E. B. Coffin Papers contains genealogical materials about Coffin family members, such as birth, marriage, and death certificates; lineage notes; obituaries; and newspaper clippings. Also included is correspondence (usually on the death of a family member), deeds and legal agreements, a scrapbook and autograph album, and many photographs of the family.

Dates: 1850-1981

Virginia Coffman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2005-23
Abstract

Virginia Coffman (1914-2005) was an American novelist best known for her Gothic novels. The collection consists primarily of materials related to Coffman's career as a popular novelist, including manuscript drafts, notes, proposals, and newspaper clippings, as well as articles, screenplay ideas, and correspondence relating to her film and screenwriter career. A small amount of personal and family material is also included.

Dates: 1907-1989; Majority of material found within 1959-1974

County Fiscal Officers Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: 95-63
Abstract

The County Fiscal Officers Association of Nevada was founded on April 27, 1946 in Reno, Nevada. They improved operations at county governments in Nevada. The collection includes the organization's constitution and bylaws, minutes, programs of annual meetings, correspondence, history of the organization, membership lists, newspaper clippings and scrapbooks.

Dates: 1946-1995

Captain Charles E. Davis Collection

 Collection
Identifier: NC622
Abstract

Captain Charles E. Davis ( -1933) was an amateur historian and expert on westward emigration in the United States. The collection contains Davis' original journals, correspondence, and photographs that document his work on retracing the Donner-Reed Party emigrant trail through Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming to California. Additionally, the collection contains handwritten notes on Davis' visit to the scene of the Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah.

Dates: 1890-1929

Jonathan O. Davis Records

 Collection
Identifier: 98-36
Abstract The collection documents Davis' professional career through materials related to his research projects, articles and other writings, professional associations, field notes and research data, and professional correspondence. Topics in the professional papers include archaeological geology, volcanic ash studies, and Quaternary stratigraphy. Davis' personal life is represented by personal correspondence both to and from Davis and an interesting group of materials related to his involvement as a...
Dates: 1908-1991; Majority of material found within 1961-1990

Sam P. Davis Papers

 Collection
Identifier: NC587
Abstract

Includes materials by or about Sam Davis and his family, the Corbett-Fitzsimmons boxing match, Thomas Fitch, Thomas P. Brown, Henry R. Mighels, Robert O'Brien, Theodore Winters, Lake Tahoe, and the Western States Exploration Company. Microfilm contains materials from family scrapbook.

Dates: 1865-1960

Jack Dieringer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2016-24
Abstract

Andrew “Jack” Dieringer (1925-2020) graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno in 1948 with a degree in biology. He began working for the Nevada Fish and Game Commission directly out of college and continued there until his retirement in 1983. Collection includes daily diaries kept by Dieringer from February 1951 to his retirement in 1983 and record his daily work activities, meetings, and trips to the field.

Dates: 1951-1983

Alfred Doten Papers

 Collection
Identifier: NC08
Abstract Diaries relating to Alfred Doten's trip from Plymouth, Mass. by sea to California in 1849, his life as a placer miner and rancher in California, and as a newspaperman in Nevada; literary, biographical and historical manuscripts; a complete file of the Como Sentinel and its successor, the Lyon County Sentinel; and clippings of Doten's articles. Other papers relate to Governor C. C. Stevenson of Nevada, the construction of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, the town of Gold Hill, Nevada, and...
Dates: 1834-1972

Geneva Douglas Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 93-35
Abstract

The Geneva Douglas papers are largely composed of materials related to her participation in Soroptimist International. Smaller portions of the collection come from her professional work at the U.S. Public Health Service, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Nevada Nuclear Waste Study Group. Other volunteer organizations activities are also present, including Douglas’s role as chairperson of the Governor's Advisory Committee on Volunteerism. Material between 1945-1993.

Dates: 1945-1993; Majority of material found within 1978-1990

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McCarran, Pat, 1876-1954 7
Church, James Edward, Jr., 1869-1959 5
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Bible, Alan, 1909-1988 4
Oddie, Tasker L. (Tasker Lowndes), 1870-1950 4
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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 3
Sierra Club 3
United States. Congress. Senate 3
University of Nevada 3
University of Nevada, Reno 3
Vucanovich, Barbara F., 1921-2013 3
Anderson, Charles L. (Charles Lewis), 1827-1910 2
Baring, Walter S. (Walter Stephan), 1911-1975 2
Bryan, Richard H. 2
Cannon, Howard W. 2
Cobb, Tyrus W. 2
D'Azevedo, Warren L. 2
Davis, Sam P. (Sam Post), 1850-1918 2
De Quille, Dan, 1829-1898 2
Democratic Party (Nev.) 2
Dieringer, Jack, 1925-2020 2
Drackert, Harry Wilmot, 1904-1990 2
First Baptist Church of Reno 2
Fleischmann, Max C. (Max Charles), 1877-1951 2
Getchell, Noble Hamilton, 1875-1960 2
Holabird-Kagin Americana (Firm) 2
Lander, F. W. (Frederick West), 1821-1862 2
Mackay School of Mines 2
Mackay, John William, 1831-1902 2
McKay family 2
Nevada Federation of Republican Women 2
Nevada. Department of Fish and Game 2
Nevada. Fish and Game Commission 2
Pittman, Mimosa Gates, 1872-1952 2
Pyramid Lake Guest Ranch 2
Taylor, Maude Sawin, 1889-1974 2
United States. Forest Service 2
Virginia & Truckee Railroad 2
Wheat, Margaret M. 2
Active Republican Women of Las Vegas 1
Adams family 1
Adams, Brewster, 1879-1959 1
Adams, Edna Raymond 1
Adams, George, 1807-1865 1
Admirable Books 1
Allen, Robert A., 1885-1968 1
Amaral, Anthony A., 1930- 1
American Association of University Women. Nevada Division 1
American Friends Service Committee (Reno, Nev.) 1
American Legion 1
American Newspaper Guild 1
American Women's Voluntary Services 1
Ames, Pelham W. (Pelham Warren), 1839- 1
Anderson, Frederick M., 1906- 1
Anderson, John 1
Annie (Steamboat) 1
Antipa family 1
Antipa, George 1
Antipa, Susan 1
Archer, W. Andrew (William Andrew), 1894-1973 1
Arensberg, Betty Abry 1
Arentz, Samuel Shaw, 1879-1934 1
Arrowhead D Ranch 1
Asher, Julius, 1847-1924 1
Atomic Power Utilization Committee 1
Auer, John Jeffery, IV 1
Austin Mining Company (Nev.) 1
Bailey, Vernon, 1864-1942 1
Baker, Bobby, 1928-2017 1
Baldrica, Alice M. 1
Bank of Battle Mountain 1
Barley Food Products (Firm) 1
Barrett, Stanley R. 1
Barry Cassidy Rare Books 1
Bartlett family 1
Bartlett, George A. (George Arthur), 1869-1951 1
Bassman, Henry 1
Baumann family 1
Beals & Waterhouse 1
Beals Branch Gallery 1
Bean, Mary Cutlip, 1939- 1
Bean, Thomas Lee 1
Berlin, Ellin 1
Beta Sigma Phi 1
Beta Sigma Phi. Alpha Epsilon Chapter (Lovelock, Nev.) 1
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Betty O'Neal Mines 1
Billings, W. D. (William Dwight), 1910-1997 1
Bliss family 1
Bliss, Duane L. 1
Bliss, Duane L., Jr., 1874-1938 1
Bliss, W. S. (William Seth), 1865-1941 1
Bliss, Walter D., 1872-1956 1
Bliss, William W. (William Walter), 1924- 1
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