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Reno Promotional Committee Minutes
Collection
Identifier: NC1232
Abstract
The Reno Promotional Committee was an organization that developed ways of drawing visitors to Reno. The collection includes minutes, agendas, resume of public relations activities for the Reno Chamber of Commerce, and a budget for promotion of the 1960 Reno Rodeo.
Dates:
1959-1960
Abstract of Title...Riverside Heights Addition to Reno...
Collection
Identifier: NC1017
Abstract
Washoe County Title Guaranty is a company in Reno, Nevada, which compiles copies of deeds and other title documents constituting a chain of title for specific property. Collection contains chain of title for lot 10, block 2 of the Riverside Heights Addition to Reno, Nevada, beginning with its acquisition by the Central Pacific Railroad, then Myron Lake, the Newlands Company, and others. Date range 1876-1920.
Dates:
1876-1920
Gladys Belknap Rowley Scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: 84-26
Abstract
Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings of the column "Reno review" from the Nevada state journal between 1938-1956 and created by
Gladys Belknap Rowley; plus correspondence related to the column; columns written by Brewster Adams ("Values in the rough") containing comments directed to Rowley; and comments, compliments, and critique she received about her work. Subjects of the columns generally about Reno, Rowley's family, the home front during World War II, experiences of Reno men in the war,...
Dates:
1938-1956
Rancho San Rafael Park research papers
Collection
Identifier: 99-17
Abstract
Dr. Elmer Rusco is professor emeritus of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. Research notes, interview transcripts, copies of legal documents, master plans, newspaper clippings, and photographs used to produce Rusco's history of Rancho San Rafael Park in Reno. People who were the focus of his research included Barbara Bennett, Virginia Kersey, Russell W. McDonald, Clark Santini, Nancy Gomes, Don Mello, early owners of the park property, and the RSR Steering Committee....
Dates:
1921-1998; Majority of material found within 1979 - 1997
Interview of Miguel Sepulveda
Collection
Identifier: 88-37
Abstract
Transcript of an interview of Sepulveda by Samuel A. Brewer about the Mexican-American population of Reno, projections for the future of Hispanics in Reno and Nevada, a biographical sketch of Sepulveda, and a description of his participation in the Hispanic community.
Dates:
May 1988
Elizabeth Laidlaw Smith Letter
Collection
Identifier: NC837
Abstract
Letter to the librarian of the Univ. of Nevada-Reno, providing a biographical sketch of Laidlaw's family, the Smiths, in Reno; and Teddy Roosevelt's visit there.,Tipped into a book issued by the Nevada Commercial League of Reno, Reno, Nevada and its surroundings (Reno : Gazette Publishing Company, 1907); Special Collections call number F849.R4,R46 1907.
Dates:
May 23, 1956
Ivan Sessions Smith Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: 84-03
Abstract
Ivan Sessions Smith was the secretary to the president of the University of Nevada-Reno. Scrapbook includes invitations, programs, clippings about Reno events, place cards, calling cards, photographs, correspondence, and souvenirs from 1900-1927.
Dates:
1900-1927
Raymond I. Smith Biography
Collection
Identifier: 99-64
Abstract
Raymond I. "Pappy" Smith (1887-1967) owned the Harold's Club in Reno, Nevada. The collection contains an anecdotal biography by an unknown author that describes Smith's personality, Reno, and the gambling industry in the 1930s-1960s, Harold's Club clientele, and Smith's personal life.
Dates:
1970s
Sparks Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2015-24
Abstract
John Sparks was a native of Mississippi that made his fortune in the cattle business and banking in Texas and Wyoming Territory after the Civil War. He married Nancy Elnora Knight in 1880 and moved to Elko County, Nevada where he continued cattle ranching operations. In 1902, Sparks became the 10th governor of Nevada, but passed away while in office during his second term in May 1908. Sparks was survived by his wife and four children: Maud Sparks McKenzie, Benton Hackett Sparks, Charles...
Dates:
1835-2011; Majority of material found within 1880-1910
University of Nevada, Reno, Ethnological Archives
Collection
Identifier: 92-09
Abstract
Included are students' final field reports; administrative correspondence, grant applications and reports; reference material distributed to students; and research material compiled by Drs. Warren d'Azevedo and Catherine Fowler on kinship in Washington County, Utah, and Reno, Nevada.,Topics of student reports include the Washo, Paiute, and Shoshone Indians of northern Nevada; Navaho at Kaibito, New Mexico; Indians on Vancouver Island, British Columbia; Samoans in the San Francisco Bay area,...
Dates:
1960-1977
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- Reno (Nev.) 29
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- Albums (Books) 6
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- Photographs 6
- Architectural drawings 5
- Business correspondence 5
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- Personal correspondence 3
- Pyramid Lake (Nev.) 3
- Rancho San Rafael Regional Park (Reno, Nev.) 3
- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) 3
- Truckee River (Calif. and Nev.) 3
- Account books 2
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- Cane Rush, Reno, Nev., 1918-1938 1
- Carson River (Nev.) 1
- Carson River (Nev.) -- Water rights 1
- Cattle -- Nevada 1
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- Child care services -- Nevada -- Reno 1
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- College campuses -- Nevada -- Reno -- Maps 1
- Comstock Lode (Nev.) 1
- Conference materials 1
- Contracts 1
- Dairying -- Nevada 1
- Data sets 1
- Death registers 1
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- Diaries 1
- Dog Valley (Nev.) 1
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- Elko County (Nev.) -- History 1
- Fallen Leaf Lake (Calif.) 1
- Fiction 1
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- Floods -- Nevada -- Reno 1
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- Golf courses -- Nevada -- Reno 1
- Goodyears Bar (Calif.) 1
- Governors -- Nevada 1
- Grazing -- Nevada 1
- Hanford Site (Wash.) 1
- High Rock Canyon (Nev.) 1
- Historic preservation -- Nevada -- Reno 1
- Indian Valley (Calif.) 1
- Indians of North America -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island 1
- Intellectual disability 1
- Job descriptions 1
- Journalism -- Nevada 1 ∧ less
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- University of Nevada, Reno 9
- Burning Man (Festival) 2
- Cobb, Tyrus W. 2
- Erskine, Graham, 1911-1991 2
- Ferris and Erskine 2
- Kersey, Virginia 2
- Nevada State Multiple Use Advisory Committee 2
- Piper's Opera House (Virginia City, Nev.) 2
- Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County 2
- Reno (Nev.). City Council 2
- Sawyer, Grant, 1918-1996 2
- University of Nevada 2
- University of Nevada, Reno. College of Engineering 2
- Washoe County (Nev.). Rancho San Rafael Regional Park Steering Committee 2
- Adams, Brewster, 1879-1959 1
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (Location of Meeting--Reno, Nev.); Date of meeting of treaty signing--(1927) 1
- Anderson, J. T. (James Treat), 1921- 1
- Arensberg, Betty Abry 1
- Associated Students of the University of Nevada 1
- Ault, Chris, 1946- 1
- Bacon, Jack 1
- Barber, Alicia 1
- Baring, Walter S. (Walter Stephan), 1911-1975 1
- Beasley, Nellie 1
- Bell, Walter L., 1924- 1
- Beloso, Frank 1
- Bennett, Barbara, 1923-1993 1
- Berlin Mill (Berlin, Nev.) 1
- Bibb, Clyde J. 1
- Bibb, Katherine Vogel 1
- Block N Society (University of Nevada, Reno) 1
- Blue Key. University of Nevada, Reno Chapter (Fraternity) 1
- Boardman, Horace E. 1
- Boardman, Horace Prentiss, 1869- 1
- Bonnenfant, Mark 1
- Bonnette, Sadie 1
- Borde, Tammy 1
- Boscom, Jonathan 1
- Bostwick, Todd W. 1
- Brewer, Samuel A. 1
- Bryan, Richard H. 1
- Bunker, Berkeley Lloyd, 1906- 1
- Bunker, Harry S. 1
- Byington, Frank J. 1
- California State Automobile Association 1
- Carson Community Players 1
- Carson Opera House (Nev.) 1
- Carter, Bernie 1
- Carville, Edward P. (Edward Peter), 1885-1956 1
- Center, Jerry K. 1
- Christensen, Christian 1
- Christensen, Kasey 1
- Church, James Edward, Jr., 1869-1959 1
- Citizens for Parks and Trails 2000 1
- Citizens for Rancho San Rafael 1
- Clark, Walter E. (Walter Ernest), 1873-1955 1
- Cobb, Ty, 1915-1997 1
- Cobb, William, 1885-1973 1
- Cocanour, Robert A. 1
- Coffin and Keys (University of Nevada, Reno) 1
- Collins, Randy 1
- Comstock Golden Jubilee (1909 : Virginia City, Nev.) 1
- Cook family 1
- Cooke (Family : 1894- : Cooke, Herman R., 1873-1952) 1
- Cooke, Patricia Herz 1
- Cooke, Thomas A., 1920-1994 1
- Coop, Sarah 1
- Cooper, John A. (Mayor of Reno, Nev.) 1
- Covington, Cameron 1
- Cummings, Patrick 1
- Davis, Jackson Lee, 1870?-1949 1
- Davis, Jonathan O. (Jonathan Ogden) 1
- DeLongchamps, Frederic Joseph, 1882-1969 1
- Democratic Party (Nev.) 1
- Dickinson, Richard (Of the Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration) 1
- Doege, Paul 1
- Donner Trail Guest Ranch (Verdi, Nev.) 1
- Douglas County. Court House (Nev.) 1
- Drackert, Alice Richtmyer, 1887-1963 1
- Drackert, Charles E., 1875-1938 1
- Drackert, Harry Wilmot, 1904-1990 1
- Drackert, Joan Abry, 1914-1991 1
- Driggs House (Virginia City, Nev.) 1
- Dukes, Claude, 1914-1984 1
- Dukes, Harry C. 1
- Dukes, Lynne 1
- Dunlap, Cal (Calvin) 1
- Earl, Phillip I. 1
- Economic Opportunity Board of Washoe County 1
- Education Opera House (Organization) 1
- Elston, Robert G. 1
- Erskine and Harden Architects 1
- Evans, Orlando 1
- Fallon Community Players 1
- Federal Water Master Nevada 1
- Feinhandler, Edward S., 1948- 1
- Fenwick, Jerry 1
- Ferris, Lehman A., 1893- 1
- Fleischmann Planetarium 1
- Fontana, Ivan 1 ∧ less
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