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William Wallace White Papers

Collection

Identifier: NC455

Abstract

Wiliam Wallace White was a sanitary engineer for the Nevada Division of Public Health Engineering and Director of the Nevada State Department of Health and Welfare. The collection contains minutes of the Truckee River Pure Water Fund (1904); reports on Truckee River pollution (1918), the Reno-Sparks sewer system (1927), and water supplies for Nevada highways and railroads (1927); and correspondence to and from White regarding the latter report and water purification.

Dates: 1904-1927

Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department

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Repository: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department X
Subject: Water-supply -- Nevada X
Names: White, William Wallace, 1905- X

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