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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
Vail Montgomery Pittman Papers
Collection
Identifier: NC392
Abstract
Vail Montgomery Pittman was a Nevada newspaperman, State Senator (1925-1929), Lieutenant Governor (1943-1945), Governor (1945-1950), and Democratic National Committeeman from Nevada (1955-1961). Married to Ida Brewington, 1919; brother of Nevada U.S. Senator Key Pittman. Papers, primarily correspondence, are to Pittman from personal, business, and political associates. Major correspondents include Alan Bible, Berkeley Bunker, Pat McCarran, Lester Moody, Drew Pearson, Key Pittman, Mimosa...
Dates:
1896-1964; Majority of material found within 1940-1964
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- Albums (Books) 1
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- Governors -- Nevada 1
- Governors -- Nevada -- Election 1
- Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- Nevada 1
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- Nevada -- Newspapers 1
- Operation Haylift, 1949 -- Nevada 1
- Parks -- Nevada -- Planning 1
- Photographs 1
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- Regional planning -- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) 1
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- Bible, Alan, 1909-1988 1
- Bunker, Berkeley Lloyd, 1906- 1
- Cook family 1
- Cooke (Family : 1894- : Cooke, Herman R., 1873-1952) 1
- Cooke, Patricia Herz 1
- Cooke, Thomas A., 1920-1994 1
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 1
- McCarran, Pat, 1876-1954 1
- Moody, Lester 1
- Pearson, Drew, 1897-1969 1
- Pittman, Key, 1872-1940 1
- Pittman, Mimosa Gates, 1872-1952 1
- Pittman, Vail Montgomery, 1880-1964 1
- Tahoe Regional Planning Agency 1
- Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 1
- Washoe County (Nev.). Department of Parks and Recreation 1
- Young Women's Christian Association of Reno-Sparks (Nev.) 1 ∧ less
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