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4-H Clubs of Nevada Records
Included are enrollment summaries and analysis, Cooperative Extension project plans and reports, leadership training programs, purchase and incorporation records for the 4-H camp at Lake Tahoe (called the Nevada State 4-H Institute and Exhibit), photographs, and publicity materials from 1918-1980.
Speech made on the 50th anniversary the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934
Collection consists of a presentation made at the open house for the 50th anniversary of the Taylor Grazing Act, which brought public domain lands under control of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management during 1984. The Taylor Grazing Act was created by Darrel S. Fulwider.
420 Mining Company Records
Handwritten legal documents, The 420 Mining Company complainant, vs. the Bullion Mining Company, defendant. Material from 1873-1875.
Letters from A. C. Williams to Leonora Kennedy
Albert C. Williams was born in Nevada in 1883 and lived in Austin and Tonopah, Nevada. In 1904 he worked for the Nevada Central Railroad train station, which ran from Austin to Battle Mountain, Nevada and connected to the Southern Pacific. By September of the same year, he found a new job at a bank in Tonopah. The collection contains four letters from Williams to his cousin Leonora Kennedy who lived in Florin, California.
A Few Things I Remember
Frances Shellenberger describes her Mormon parents' emigration from England to Utah, father's work in pioneer Utah, childhood in a Mormon family, move to Lund and Preston, Nevada in about 1898 with a Mormon colonizing group, marriage to Walter Shellenberger in 1903, married life in the mining town of Ruth and in Ely, ranching in the Snake Valley, raising ten children, and involvement in Mormon church activities.,A brief genealogical chart is included.
A. G. Guthiel Papers
Documents A. G. Guthiel's mining and oil and gas explorations in the intermountain West, from about 1916 through the 1940s.
Interview of Vida Boyle
Interview by Grace Danberg.,Recollections of household hardships in Virginia City, Nevada, and in the governor's mansion in Carson City.
Indenture
Indenture from William McBrown selling the Mammoth Lady Gold and Silver Mining Company in Smokey Valley (now Big Smokey Valley), Lander County, Nevada Territory to Peter Gross, on August 1, 1864.
Middle Mines Report of Operations
Letterpress copy book of weekly reports of activities submitted by mine superintendent Whitman Symmes. Reports give number of men employed by occupation, cost of wages, and a descriptive summary of work.
Northeast Nevada cooperative land use study
Report provides information on Nevada land classified according to use capability. The northeastern region of Nevada extends from Silver Creek quadrangle east to the Utah/Nevada border and from the Idaho border south to Tenabo, Nevada. Created by the United States Soil Conservation Service in 1939.
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