Showing Collections: 1 - 3 of 3
William T. and Ann H. Scott Papers
Collection
Identifier: 97-15
Abstract
The collection consists of the personal papers and professional records of Ann and William Scott and their extended family. It includes documentation of Ann Scott's career as a children's author, such as manuscripts, correspondence, and academic and employment records and William Scott's research files in physics, teaching records, articles and correspondence related to cloud physics (1954-1993).
Dates:
1950-1994
William T. and Ann H. Scott Papers
Collection
Identifier: 95-92
Abstract
Husband and wife William Taussig Scott (1916-1999) and Ann Herbert Scott (1929-2018) lived in Reno, Nevada, between 1961-1995. William taught physics and philosophy of science at the University of Nevada, Reno, from 1961-1981 and conducted research in cloud physics at the Desert Research Institute from 1965-1975. Ann was an author of children's books and a book on the U.S. Census. The collection consists of the personal papers and professional records of Ann and William Scott and their...
Dates:
1833-1994
Sierra Interfaith Action for Peace Records
Collection
Identifier: 95-01
Abstract
This collection is a rich source of information about the peace and justice movement in Nevada. In addition to chronicling activities of the Sierra Interfaith Action for Peace it documents the peace work of the American Friends Service Committee, Campus Peace Studies Group, Reno/Sparks Metro Ministry, Citizen Alert, Nevada Desert Experience, Nevadans Against the War, Pace e Bene, and Nevada Rainbow Coalition. Other western peace organizations include The Pecos Benedictine, Plumas People for...
Dates:
1969-1994
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Business correspondence 2
- Children's literature -- Authorship 2
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 2
- Nuclear disarmament 2
- Pacifism 2
- Pacifists -- United States 2
- Peace 2
- Society of Friends -- Nevada 2
- Antinuclear movement -- Nevada 1
- Child abuse -- Prevention -- Nevada 1
- Children's literature 1
- Cloud physics 1
- Cosmic rays 1
- Electricity 1
- Fiction 1
- Knowledge, Theory of 1
- MX (Weapons system) 1
- Magnetism 1
- Mass spectrometry 1
- Minutes (Records) 1
- Missions -- China 1
- Newsletters 1
- Nonviolence -- Nevada 1
- Nuclear weapons -- Nevada -- Testing 1
- Paiute Indians -- Social conditions 1
- Peace movements -- Nevada 1
- Personal correspondence 1
- Philosophy and science 1
- Photographs 1
- Political persecution -- Central America 1
- Prisons -- Nevada 1
- Programs (Publications) 1
- Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation (Nev.) 1
- Quantum theory 1
- Religion and science 1
- Scattering (Physics) 1
- Science -- Philosophy 1
- Society of Friends -- Political activity 1
- Video recordings 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- Nevada 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors 1 ∧ less
- Names
- American Friends Service Committee (Reno, Nev.) 2
- Scott family 2
- Scott, Agnes 2
- Scott, Carl F. 2
- Scott, Roderick 2
- Campus Peace Studies Group (Reno, Nev.) 1
- Fujian xie he da xue 1
- Nevada Desert Experience (Organization) 1
- Nevada Rainbow Coalition 1
- Nevadans Against the War 1
- Pace e Bene Franciscan Nonviolence Center (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1
- Polanyi, Michael, 1891-1976 1
- Redding Peace Center 1
- Redlands Peace Group 1
- Reno/Sparks Metro Ministry 1
- Resource Center for Nonviolence (Santa Cruz, Calif.) 1
- Sacramento Religious Community for Peace 1
- Scott, Abraham McLean 1
- Scott, C. P. G. (Charles Payson Gurley), 1853-1936 1
- Scott, Dorothy, -1975 1
- Sierra Interfaith Action for Peace 1
- Society for Social Responsibility in Science 1 ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more