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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
Clel Georgetta Papers
Collection
Identifier: 99-42
Abstract
Clel Evan Georgetta (1901-1979) was White Pine County's Assemblyman for two terms and a member of the Nevada Republican State Central Committee (1935-1942). He was instrumental in passing the six-week divorce residency requirement and authored laws on range and water rights. The collection includes typescripts of Georgetta's fiction and non-fiction manuscripts, both published and unpublished, much of it based on Nevada themes, characters, and locales; personal diaries letters to daughter...
Dates:
1916-1979
Joseph F. McDonald Papers
Collection
Identifier: NC429
Abstract
Joseph F. McDonald (1891-1971) was a Nevada newspaperman, editor and publisher of the Nevada State Journal, 1939-1956; president of Reno Newspapers Incorporated; and president of the Nevada-California Lake Tahoe Association. The collection contains personal papers, 1911-1970; material related to Reno newspapers, 1928-1963; and records and related material of the Nevada-California Lake Tahoe Association, 1957-1968.
Dates:
1870-1980
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- Albums (Books) 2
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- Authors, American -- 20th century 1
- Diaries 1
- Divorce -- Nevada 1
- Fiction 1
- Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- Nevada 1
- Journalism -- Nevada 1
- Judges -- Nevada 1
- Land use -- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) -- Planning 1
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- Minorities -- Nevada 1
- Nevada -- Description and travel 1
- Nevada -- Fiction 1
- Nevada -- Politics and government 1
- Nevada -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
- Nevada state journal 1
- Nevada state journal (Reno, Nev. : 1907) 1
- Parks -- Nevada -- Planning 1
- Photographs 1
- Regional planning -- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Reno (Nev.) -- Politics and government 1
- Sheep ranches -- Nevada 1
- Speeches 1
- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Virginia City (Nev.) -- History 1
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- Baring, Walter S. (Walter Stephan), 1911-1975 1
- Bunker, Berkeley Lloyd, 1906- 1
- Bunker, Harry S. 1
- California State Automobile Association 1
- Carville, Edward P. (Edward Peter), 1885-1956 1
- Cook family 1
- Cooke (Family : 1894- : Cooke, Herman R., 1873-1952) 1
- Cooke, Patricia Herz 1
- Cooke, Thomas A., 1920-1994 1
- Democratic Party (Nev.) 1
- Georgetta, Caryl 1
- Georgetta, Clel Evan, 1901-1979 1
- Lake Tahoe Area Council 1
- Lincoln Hall (Reno, Nev.) 1
- Malone, George W. (George Wilson), 1890-1961 1
- McCarran, Pat, 1876-1954 1
- McDonald, Joseph F. 1
- McDonald, Leola Lewis 1
- Nevada-California Lake Tahoe Association 1
- Nevada. State Board of Parole Commissioners 1
- Oddie, Tasker L. (Tasker Lowndes), 1870-1950 1
- Pittman, Key, 1872-1940 1
- Sawyer, Grant, 1918-1996 1
- Scrugham, James G. (James Graves), 1880-1945 1
- Tahoe Regional Planning Agency 1
- Triune Ranch (Nev.) 1
- University of Nevada 1
- University of Nevada, Reno 1
- University of Washington 1
- University of Wisconsin 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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