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Correspondence about Snowshoe Thompson
Collection
Identifier: 2010-32
Abstract
John "Snowshoe" Thompson (1827-1876) was born in Tinn, Telemark, Norway to Torstein Olson-Rue and Gro Jonsdatter Einungbrekke. After the death of his father, John and his mother, Gro, immigrated to the United States, where John eventually settled in Genoa, Nevada in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The collection contains letters written by Agnes Scossa, Laurence D'Orsay, and Rees Davis to Francis Fairchild regarding John "Snowshoe" Thompson and his life.
Dates:
1910-1928; Majority of material found within 1910-1911
Robin Walz Correspondence with Russell T. Barnhart
Collection
Identifier: NC1411
Scope and Contents
The Robin Walz Correspondence with Russell T. Barnhart contains outgoing and incoming correspondence between Walz and Barnhart concerning his translation of Eugene Villiod's "Memoires de Villiod" from French to English, and Barnhart's knowledge about Villiod. The collection also includes a photocopy of Walz's paper he presented at the 1998 annual meeting of the Western Society for French History.
Dates:
1992-1998
Western Ephemera Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2002-16
Abstract
The Western Ephemera Collection was assembled by the Special Collections Department to house miscellaneous donations as well as items purchased from Holabird Western Americana, LLC, a Reno auction house that specializes in buying, selling and appraising historical Americana, numismatics, exonumia, and antiquities. The collection contains materials primarily acquired via auction purchase from 2002-2022 from Holabird Western Americana Collections and documents various aspects of northern...
Dates:
1849-2022
Margaret M. Wheat Papers
Collection
Identifier: 83-24
Abstract
Margaret M. Wheat (1908-1988) was an ethnologist, geologist, and photographer who worked closely with the Numu peoples. Collection includes papers collected and created by Wheat throughout her career as an ethnologist and geologist, among other things. Of note are files on Ichthyosaur State Park and Dr. Charles L. Camp; controversies within the State Park Commission; Numu linguistics; a scrapbook compiled by J. D. Oliver as Superintendent of the Nevada Indian School; Sarah Winnemucca...
Dates:
1879-1981
John B. Williams Papers
Collection
Identifier: NC947
Abstract
Poetry, marriage certificate, diplomas of Edna Williams, greeting cards, program, and letters between John B. Williams (Washoe County Recorder) and his wife Millie between 1868-1896.
Dates:
1868-1896
James Albert Yerington Papers
Collection
Identifier: NC51
Abstract
James Albert Yerington, son of Henry Marvin Yerington, was the managing director of the Nevada State Exhibit, Midwinter Fair in 1895 and the owner of the Brunswick Mining Company. The collection includes a diary, 1908; incoming correspondence from friends and relatives, including his father; map of the Brunswick Mill site; tax statement; certificate of appointment as a delegate to the American Mining Congress, 1907; and a receipt.
Dates:
1890-1923
C. Clifton Young Papers
Collection
Identifier: 96-06
Abstract
The C. Clifton Young papers document the lives of Clarence Clifton (Cliff) Young, his father Clarence L. Young, and and mother Florence Anker Young. Including personal and business documents, these family papers give insight into life in Lovelock Nevada in the nineteenth and twentieth century (1878-1995).
Dates:
1878-1995
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