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James Edward Church Papers
Collection
Identifier: NC96
Abstract
James Edward Church, Jr. (1869-1959) was a Ph.D and classics professor at the University of Reno, Nevada. Collection contains Church's personal and professional correspondence to and from people and organizations connected with snow surveying, notes, reports, manuscripts (published and unpublished); also personal mementos, diaries, maps and artifacts. Also included is Florence Humphrey Church's correspondence with the Nevada Federation of Women's Clubs.
Dates:
1869-1964
Cooke Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2013-20
Abstract
Thomas Arthur "Tom" Cooke was a prominent and well-respected lawyer in Reno. He married Martha Patricia "Patty" Herz while in college at the University of Nevada in the early 1940s. The Cooke family was involved in a variety of environmental, recreational, and historic preservation projects and initiatives that sought to improve northern Nevada. Materials cover some aspects of the lives and careers of members of the Cooke and Herz families. Topics include Democratic politics in Nevada,...
Dates:
1855-2009; Majority of material found within 1940-2000
Sam P. Davis Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: NC197
Abstract
Includes letters from Henry George on a U. S. income tax proposal, 1883; Theodore Roosevelt on establishing a Nevada State Police, 1908; E. A. Powell on Davis' purchase of a pedigreed bull, 1885; Thomas A. Edison on use of sagebrush as fuel, 1910; letters from Davis to Nevada U. S. Senator William M. Stewart about politics and Lake Tahoe, 1900-1901; Davis' poem the Burial of Sam Magee, n.d.; and Davis' response to a toast at a Virginia City banquet celebrating the installation of electrical...
Dates:
1883-1912
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
Duane L. Bliss, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2015-20
Abstract
Duane Leroy Bliss, Jr. (1874-1938) was born in Carson City, Nevada, the son of prominent Lake Tahoe developer Duane L. Bliss. Materials consist of documents that pertain to companies with which Bliss was involved (Lake Tahoe Railway and Transportation Company, the Spanish Peak Lumber Company, Dunham, Carrigan, & Hayden Company, the California Pacific Trading Corporation, and the Post Street Investment Company). Also included are various personal receipts, loans given to individuals, and...
Dates:
1909-1938
Claude Dukes Collection of Federal Water Master's Office Records
Collection
Identifier: 84-11
Abstract
Collection contains papers from the Federal Water Master's Office, Reno, Nevada, 1926-1982. Included are office operational records, correspondence; also water data, reports, maps and printed material relating to water in the Truckee and Carson River Basins, Nevada and California.
Dates:
1849-1982
El Dorado County Chamber of Commerce, Lake Tahoe Division Records
Collection
Identifier: 90-65
Abstract
The Lake Tahoe Division of the El Dorado County Chamber of Commerce was organized June 14, 1938 by a group of south Lake Tahoe businessmen and women as a branch of the El Dorado County Chamber of Commerce with the purpose of advancing the commercial and industrial interests of the county and to work for the betterment of the communities in the area. The collection includes administrative materials (minutes, bylaws, financial information, etc.) correspondence, materials and photographs...
Dates:
1938-1942
John Ensign U.S. Senatorial Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2013-11
Abstract
John Ensign served in the United State Congress from 1994-1998 and the U.S. Senate from 2000 until his resignation in 2011. He served on the following Senate Committees: Budget; Finance; Armed Services; Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP); Veterans Affairs; Homeland Security and Government Affairs; Small Business and Entrepreneurship; Rules and Administration; and Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. The collection covers Ensign's career as a...
Dates:
1987-2011
Foresta Institute for Ocean and Mountain Studies Records
Collection
Identifier: 2001-01
Abstract
Foresta Institute for Ocean and Mountains Studies was founded in 1960 in Washoe Valley, Nevada by Richard and Maya Miller. The Millers and their associates believed there was a need for a non-governmental, non-profit research organization in the community of western Nevada/eastern California that would encourage, sponsor, and initiate scientific research, resource surveys and other natural history studies. Foresta was a pioneer in environmental education with its flagship programs being the...
Dates:
1849-2007; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1980
John A. Fulton Papers
Collection
Identifier: 86-04
Abstract
John A. Fulton was a mining engineer and director of the Mackay School of Mines at the University of Nevada, Reno. The collection includes papers and speeches presented by Fulton, chiefly on mining in Nevada and Grass Valley, California; correspondence on mining matters; and microfilm of a scrapbook.
Dates:
1878-1936
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- Truckee River (Calif. and Nev.) 4
- Account books 3
- Albums (Books) 3
- El Dorado County (Calif.) 3
- Environmental impact statements -- Nevada 3
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- Environmental protection -- Research -- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) 3
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- Legal instruments 3
- Nevada -- Politics and government 3
- Reno (Nev.) 3
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- Truckee River (Calif. and Nev.) -- Water rights 2
- Water -- Pollution -- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) 2
- Water rights -- Nevada 2
- Water rights -- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) 2
- Agricultural extension work -- Nevada 1
- Air -- Pollution -- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Amateur films 1
- Antelope Valley (Calif.) 1
- Anti-environmentalism -- Nevada 1
- Astronomy -- Observations -- Nevada 1
- Austin (Nev.) 1
- Authors, American -- Nevada -- 20th century 1
- Battle Mountain (Nev.) 1
- Bijou (Calif.) 1
- Boards of trade -- California 1
- Boards of trade -- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Bodega Bay (Calif.) 1
- Boxing matches -- Nevada 1
- Boys -- Nevada -- Societies and clubs 1
- Burial -- Nevada -- Carson River Valley 1
- Burial -- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Business enterprises -- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Businesswomen -- Nevada -- Directories 1
- Businesswomen -- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) -- Directories 1
- California -- History 1
- California-Nevada Interstate Compact for Lake Tahoe 1
- Camp Halleck (Nev.) 1
- Camp Richardson (Calif.) 1
- Camps -- Nevada 1
- Camps -- Songs and music 1
- Camps -- Wisconsin 1
- Carson River (Nev.) -- Water rights 1
- Cemeteries -- Nevada -- Carson River Valley 1
- Cemeteries -- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Charters and articles of incorporation 1
- Chinese -- California 1
- Chinese -- Nevada 1
- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) 1
- Como (Nev.) 1
- Comstock Lode (Nev.) 1
- Comstock Lode (Nev.) -- History 1
- Comstock Lode Mining District (Nev.) 1
- Cornish Americans -- Nevada 1
- Court decisions and opinions 1 ∧ less
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- Russian 2
- French 1
- German 1
- Latvian 1
- Polish 1
- Swedish 1 ∧ less
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- Tahoe Regional Planning Agency 10
- Lake Tahoe Area Council 6
- Sierra Club 5
- Bliss, W. S. (William Seth), 1865-1941 4
- League to Save Lake Tahoe 4
- Bliss family 3
- Bliss, Duane L. 3
- Bliss, Duane L., Jr., 1874-1938 3
- Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company 3
- Nevada-California Lake Tahoe Association 3
- Sierra Club. Toiyabe Chapter 3
- Tahoe Regional Planning Commission 3
- Bi-County Planning Commission of California 2
- Bliss, William W. (William Walter), 1924- 2
- Camp Chonokis 2
- Davis, Sam P. (Sam Post), 1850-1918 2
- Democratic Party (Nev.) 2
- Glenbrook Inn (Glenbrook, Nev.) 2
- Gorman, Gladys G. 2
- Holabird-Kagin Americana (Firm) 2
- Lake Tahoe Ry. & Trans. Co. 2
- Meteor (Steamship) 2
- Nevada. Department of Wildlife 2
- Newlands Project (U.S.) 2
- Orr Ditch and Water Company 2
- Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada 2
- Sierra Pacific Power Company 2
- Sill, Marjorie Leite 2
- Sill, Richard C. (Richard Clement), 1923-1981 2
- Tahoe (Steamship) 2
- Tahoe Improvement and Conservation Association 2
- Tri-County Planning Commission of Nevada 2
- Truckee-Carson Irrigation District 2
- University of Nevada, Reno 2
- Whittell, George, 1881-1969 2
- Yerington, Henry M. 2
- 4-H Clubs of Nevada 1
- Alpine Land and Reservoir Company 1
- American Geophysical Union 1
- Ames, Laurel W. 1
- Anderson, James (Lumberman) 1
- Annie (Steamboat) 1
- Antipa family 1
- Antipa, George 1
- Antipa, Susan 1
- Arcadia Chamber of Commerce 1
- Baring, Walter S. (Walter Stephan), 1911-1975 1
- Barley Food Products (Firm) 1
- Barrett, S. A. (Samuel Alfred), 1879-1965 1
- Barrett, Stanley R. 1
- Bell, Walter L., 1924- 1
- Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park (Nev.) 1
- Biltz, Norman Henry, 1902-1973 1
- Bliss, Florence Dunham 1
- Bliss, Walter D., 1872-1956 1
- Brown, Laura 1
- Brown, Thomas P. (Thomas Pollok), 1879- 1
- Bunker, Berkeley Lloyd, 1906- 1
- Bunker, Harry S. 1
- California Regional Water Quality Control Board--Lahontan Region 1
- California State Automobile Association 1
- California State Chamber of Commerce. Sacramento Valley Council 1
- California. Department of Fish and Game 1
- Camp Meenahga (Fish Creek, Wis.) 1
- Camp, Charles Lewis, 1893-1975 1
- Carnelian Bay Water Company 1
- Carville, Edward P. (Edward Peter), 1885-1956 1
- Catalina (Steamboat) 1
- Celio, F. Norman 1
- Centro de Informacion Latino Americano 1
- Church, Florence Humphrey 1
- Church, James Edward, Jr., 1869-1959 1
- Clark, W. W., (Of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company) 1
- Cook family 1
- Cook, Sherburne Friend, 1896-1974 1
- Cooke (Family : 1894- : Cooke, Herman R., 1873-1952) 1
- Cooke, Patricia Herz 1
- Cooke, Thomas A., 1920-1994 1
- Cooke, Thomas A., 1941- 1
- Corbett, James J., 1866-1933 1
- Coulter, Steve A. 1
- Cox, Raymond C. 1
- Crowell, Lucy Davis, 1881-1978 1
- Cutter, Donald C. 1
- D'Azevedo, Warren L. 1
- D.L. Bliss and Company 1
- Dangberg, Grace, 1896-1985 1
- Davis, Nellie Verrill Mighels 1
- Davis, Robert P. 1
- Deer Park Springs (Hotel : Lake Tahoe, Calif.) 1
- Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
- Dieringer, Jack, 1925-2020 1
- Dukes, Claude, 1914-1984 1
- Dukes, Harry C. 1
- Dukes, Lynne 1
- Duryea, E. D. (Edwin D.) 1
- Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 1
- El Dorado County Chamber of Commerce 1
- El Dorado County Chamber of Commerce. Lake Tahoe Division 1
- El Dorado Wood and Flume Company 1 ∧ less
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