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Women in politics Collection
Collection
Identifier: 92-40
Abstract
Jean Ford was a former Nevada State Senator, educator, and consultant. Contains materials on Nevada women in elected office, appointed positions, and politics, and includes directories, clippings, and workshop materials. Material between 1970-1992.
Dates:
1970-1992
Women in Politics Conference Records
Collection
Identifier: 93-08
Abstract
Included are financial reports, correspondence, and program materials used to organize Nevada state Women in politics conferences. Created by the National Women's Political Caucus who was a support group for women interested in running for public office. Material between 1980-1992.
Dates:
1980-1992
Women in the West, a Bibliography
Collection
Identifier: 88-44
Overview
Women in the West, A Bibliography was a project sponsored by the Coalition for Western Women's History to update two earlier published bibilographies on the subject. The collecion includs drafts and final copies, catalogs of books about women in cattle country, copies of other bibliographies, and print-outs of computerized data base searches.
Dates:
1984-1987
Women, Work and Wages Records
Collection
Identifier: 98-16
Abstract
Women, Work and Wages is a Nevada non-profit organization founded to conduct a state-wide educational program on the issue of comparable pay for work as related to salaries of men and women. Included are bylaws, newsletters, fundraising and publicity materials and articles about the issue of comparable worth (1981-1984).
Dates:
1981-1984
Women's Mining Coalition Records
Collection
Identifier: 96-28
Abstract
The Women's Mining Coalition (WMC) is a grassroots group of women working in exploration and mining or as vendors and suppliers to the hardrock mining industry in Nevada and elsewhere. Included are an information pamphlet, list of executive and advisory committee members, clippings, essay on the WMC, mailing list, photographs, and slides (1993-1995).
Dates:
1993-1995
Women's Resource Center Records
Collection
Identifier: 99-69
Abstract
The Women's Resource Center was organized in 1977 under the auspices of the Reno/Sparks YWCA as a place where women could meet and have access to materials on housing, child care, regulatory information on job discrimination, consumer credit, and other women's concerns. Includes records of the Women's Resource Center's first director, Jo Powell: correspondence, reports, minutes of advisory board, financial material, and grant application (1977-1980).
Dates:
1977-1980
Wonder and Wonder Extension Lode Claims, Record of Ore Mined
Collection
Identifier: NC1250
Abstract
Record of ore mined and milled at Devil's Gate and Chinatown mining districts, Lyon County, Nevada. Included are names of owners, tons milled, date, weight after melt, value of gold and/or silver, mint charges, net returns, and royalties, from between 1935-1941.
Dates:
1935-1941
Woodburn Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: NC1309
Overview
The Woodburn family settled in the state of Nevada in 1866. Four generations of the family were Nevada lawyers and political figures who continuously practiced law in the state for 135 years, from 1866-2001. Collection contains four certificates, one diploma, and a dinner program and brochure for the 2003 Nevada Bar Association's Diamond Jubilee celebration.
Dates:
1940s-2003; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1959
Josie Alma Woods Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: NC826
Abstract
Letters to Mary Ellen Glass describing Woods' careers as a dental technician, rancher, and Assemblyman. The collection contains material from 1973 created by Josie Alma Woods.
Dates:
1973
Woodworth Mill and Sluice Company Payment Slips
Collection
Identifier: 2017-75
Overview
Located on the Carson River, the Woodworth Mill was built in 1864 and, by 1869, contained 24 stamps, 12 pans, and had a capacity of 40 tons per day. In 1871, James G. Fair and John W. Mackay of the Pacific Mill and Mining Company purchased the mill. The Woodworth Sluice was one of the longest sluices ever built. Collection contains employee payment slips for August and September 1874 for work on company flumes and sluices signed by W. H. Armstrong.
Dates:
August-September 1874
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- Oddie, Tasker L. (Tasker Lowndes), 1870-1950 8
- Baring, Walter S. (Walter Stephan) 7
- D'Azevedo, Warren L. 7
- Davis, Sam P. (Sam Post) 7
- Laxalt, Paul 7
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- United States. Congress. Senate 7
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- Bible, Alan 6
- Bliss, Duane L. 6
- Church, James Edward, Jr., 1869-1959 6
- Ford, Jean, 1929-1998 6
- Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company 6
- Haynie, J. W. (John W.) 6
- Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC 6
- Hulse, James W. 6
- League of Women Voters of Nevada 6
- National Women's Political Caucus (U.S.). Anne Martin Chapter (Reno, Nev.) 6
- Nevada Federation of Republican Women 6
- Nevada State Penitentiary 6
- Newlands Project (U.S.) 6
- Ophir Silver Mining Company (Virginia City, Nev.) 6
- Richard H. Bryan 6
- Sawyer, Grant 6
- Scott, William T. (William Taussig) 6
- Truckee-Carson Irrigation District 6
- United States. Army 6
- United States. Bureau of Land Management 6
- Vucanovich, Barbara F. 6
- American Legion 5
- Bender, D. A. (David Almon) 5
- Bliss, W. S. (William Seth), 1865-1941 5
- Boyle, Emmet Derby 5
- Caples, Robert Cole 5
- Crown Point Gold and Silver Mining Company 5
- Glass, Mary Ellen 5
- Gould and Curry Mining Company 5
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- Best and Belcher Mining Company (Virginia City, Nev.) 4
- Bruce, Irene 4
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- Glass, Alton E. 4
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- League of Women Voters of Las Vegas 4
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- Mackay School of Mines 4
- McDonald, Joseph F. 4
- McElrath, Jean S., 1917-1967 4
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