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A proclamation [providing for the admission of Nevada as one of the states of the Union]
Collection
Identifier: NC106
Abstract
Collection contains received copy from Oct. 1864, on letterhead of the California State Telegraph Office, of Nevada Governor Nye's certification that the accompanying proclamation was a true copy, and article by Joseph H. Hazleton "The assassination of President Lincoln."
Dates:
Oct. 1864
Belonging: Wiseman, Woolverton, Griswold, Angel [family history]
Collection
Identifier: 91-40
Abstract
Helen Angel Fullenwider was a California researcher who researched their ancestors in 1991. Genealogical history of four families from colonial American times to the present. These families settled in Elko County, Nevada, beginning in 1859.
Dates:
1991
Account book of Nelson Brobant
Collection
Identifier: 2001-03
Abstract
Nelson Brobant is not listed in Nevada's 1860 Census, but is listed as a farmer in Nye County in the 1870 Census. The volume includes entries from November 14, 1859 to February 4, 1860 for daily transactions made to repair tools for Comstock Lode miners.
Dates:
1859-1860
Browne and Haviland Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: NC1416
Abstract
Howard Edgar Browne (1896-1990) attended the University of Nevada (1914-1918), Yale Law School, and Harvard Law School. He served as the District Attorney for Lander County, Nevada from 1922-1942, and was in private practice from 1945-1984. In 1927, Browne married Vera May Haviland, who also attended the University of Nevada. Both the Browne and the Haviland families were early settlers in northern Nevada. The collection contains material related to Browne's time at the University of Nevada,...
Dates:
1911-2021
Centennial Committee Records
Collection
Identifier: AC 0065
Abstract
In April 1973, University President N. Edd Miller appointed the University of Nevada Centennial Committee to plan and execute the observance, in 1974-1975, of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the University of Nevada, Reno. The chairman of the committee was Samuel M. Basta, Dean of Community Relations. The collection contains correspondence, committee minutes, memorandums, and reports, 1973-1975; a traveling slide presentation sponsored by General University Extension in conjunction...
Dates:
1893-1975; Majority of material found within 1971-1975
Cherry Creek Reminiscences
Collection
Identifier: 89-65
Abstract
Frank's memories of Cherry Creek include early mining, events, people, law, religion, the Chinatown section, Indians, Cousin Jacks (English), fraternal lodges, schools, early automobiles, and the railroad.
Dates:
undated
University of Nevada, Reno. College of Liberal Arts Records
Collection
Identifier: AC 0661
Abstract
The College of Liberal Arts was founded in July 2004 after the University reorganized the former College of Arts and Science into the College of Science and the College of Liberal Arts. Administratively, it encompasses the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, as well as the School of the Arts and the School of Social Research and Justice Studies. The collection includes faculty rosters, minutes from its Courses and Curriculum Committee, and marketing material for its campus...
Dates:
2004-2017
Cortez Mines, Ltd. Summary of Stores and Material Account
Collection
Identifier: NC164
Abstract
The Cortez Mines, Ltd. was a mine on the southwest slope of Mt. Tenabo on the border of Lander and Eureka Counties, Nevada. The collection contains inventories of supplies, 1899-1907, for goods used at the mine such as wood, soda, salt, fuel and explosives, and the amount of each used at the mine or mill.
Dates:
1899-1907; 1955
Reminiscences of Andrew Comstock Dibble
Collection
Identifier: NC713
Abstract
Andrew Dibble was a rancher who was primarily active in second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century. This collection contains records of Dibble's memories, dictated to his son, about his travels from 1867-1935 across the U.S., working as a teamster for the U.S. Army, telling of conflicts between settlers and indigenous nations, Custer's Custer's campaigns in the western U.S., running cattle to Abilene, Kansas, and to eastern Nevada, and ranching near Fallon, Nevada.
Dates:
1935
Donald Drake Research Collection
Collection
Identifier: NC1341
Abstract
Donald Drake is a history enthusiast and researcher. The collection includes transcribed newspaper articles collected from various historical sources regarding flumes, logging, fires, the Comstock, earthquakes, storms, and other historical events that have taken place in northern Nevada since the 1850s.
Dates:
1856-2012
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- Cividino, Paolo 1
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- Coffin, Carrie 1
- Colley, Nathaniel Sextus, 1918- 1
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- Cook, Sherburne Friend, 1896-1974 1
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- Cox, Don, 1946- 1
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