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Bullion and Exchange Bank Records

 Collection
Identifier: 82-33
Abstract

The Bullion and Exchange Bank of Carson City, Nevada was established in 1875 as the Carson City Savings Bank. THe collection includes two volumes of manuscript drafts written by the Bullion and Exchange Bank on the Anglo-California Bank of San Francisco, one volume of daily statements, one ledger, and 7 folders of invoices and correspondence dating from 1877-1931.

Dates: 1877-1931

George W. Cassidy Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 98-06
Abstract

This collection contains personal papers and business records related to George W. Cassidy and the Cassidy family, along with research notes and correspondence by Ruth McPheeters with Cassidy family decendents, and additional materials gathered by McPheeters about the Cassidy family in preparation for an un published biography about George W. Cassidy by McPheters (1851-1968).

Dates: 1851-1968; Majority of material found within 1851-1908

Great Basin National Park Foundation Oral Histories

 Collection
Identifier: NC1404
Abstract

The Great Basin National Park Foundation Oral History Project begain in the mid-2000s as a way to preserve and document the cultural heritage of the Great Basin in over 60 interviews with individuals who were raised and worked in White Pine County, Nevada and Millard County, Utah. The collection primarily contains oral history recordings by Dave Tilford completed over the course of approximatly 15 years from the mid-2000s-2019.

Dates: 2005-2021

Richard Sill papers on Great Basin National Park

 Collection
Identifier: 89-32
Abstract

Correspondence, reports and clippings created by Sill, Nevada's U.S. Senator Walter Baring, or scientist Richard Noyes, related to the unsuccessful effort in the 1950s and 1960s to create the Great Basin National Park (later created in 1986).

Dates: 1954-1984

Speeches about mining

 Collection
Identifier: NC895
Abstract

1957 speech delivered to the Assessors' Association of Nevada on mining in White Pine County, Nevada. Also included is a brief history of the county. 1964 speech, "Speaking frankly about men, mining & meddling" delivered to National Western Mining Conference.

Dates: 1957; 1964

Vanishing Frontiers, White Pine County

 Collection
Identifier: NC1069
Abstract

Cornell Henry Vander Meer (1897-1981) was a high school science teacher in White Pine County, Nevada in the 1920s and 1930s. The collection contains reminiscences about Vander Meer's arrival in Ely in 1926, teaching high school, and descriptions and photos of the community, pupils and other teachers.

Dates: 1977

History of White Pine Women

 Collection
Identifier: NC478
Abstract

Elizabeth Stark was a member of the American Association of University Women, which was the sponsor of this women's history project. The collection contains biographies of women residents of White Pine County, Nevada, including the legend of Mary Stanton, a Shoshone Indian woman healer.

Dates: 1966

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