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Songbook
Handwritten lyrics to songs about Nevada and also popular tunes of the time; not composed by Requa.
Marie Louise Coffin Summerfield Papers
The Tonopah ladies
Analysis of presence of cultured women in Tonopah (Nevada) during the boom town period of the early 1900s, using published first-hand accounts and fiction.
The tragedy in Virginia City
Poem on a broadside lamenting the economic decline of Virginia City, Nevada, and the Comstock Lode.,Tipped into the book the Drama of Virginia City (copyright 1925 by the Nevada Branch of the American Association of University Women); a reprint of Eliot Lord's Comstock mining and miners, monograph IV of the U.S.G.S., 1881; Special Collections call number F849.V8 L7 c.3.
Truckee Meadows Quilters' Club Records
The Truckee Meadows Quilters quilt club (hereafter referred to as TMQ or the Club) was organized in 1978 by local quilters and quilt lovers to promote quilting and to learn more about the art through study and sharing. Included are minutes, bylaws, correspondence, newsletters, quilt show programs, and membership rosters between 1980-2005.
Twenty miles from a match
Manuscript of Olds' reminiscences of young woman-hood in Tuolumne County, California in the 1890s and homesteading and school teaching at Pyramid Lake, ca. 1908-1931.
Washo Research Notes
Dr. Anita Spring's field notes documenting Washo Indian marriage customs at Dresslerville, Nevada, include genealogies, marriage and life histories, kin relationships, children, residence and households, courtship, divorce and separation, and census data. Also included are Washo terminology for specific topics, maps and photographs of all buildings at Dresslerville, and drafts of Spring's thesis. Spring was a graduate student in anthropology. Material from 1965.
Diary of Lovina Walker Weeks of her trip across the plains, with notes by her daughter Florence Weeks Blacow
Lovina Walker Weeks' diary provides brief daily descriptions of the wagon journey and is supplemented by comments of her daughter, Florence, who was eight at the time of the trip. Created between April 21-August 28, 1859.
When Darkness Covers Me
Ms poem signed, which begins "Lord give me strength my life while alone, if life so wills, ....",Includes a rough draft and polished copy on stationery from Oakleigh, Santa Barbara, California.
History of White Pine Women
Elizabeth Stark was a member of the American Association of University Women, which was the sponsor of this women's history project. The collection contains biographies of women residents of White Pine County, Nevada, including the legend of Mary Stanton, a Shoshone Indian woman healer.
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- Greater Nevada Health Systems Agency 1
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- Hofer, Florence Evelyn Kingsley 1
- Hofer, Theodore Robert 1
- Holcomb, Sarah Ann Lyell 1
- Hoover, Mildred Brooke 1
- Hoover, Theodore J. (Theodore Jesse), 1871-1955 1
- Horner, John Robert 1
- Hudson's Bay Company 1
- Hunt, S. F. (Samuel Franklyn) 1
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- James, Alice Conradt, 1904-1985 1
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- Jensen, Jackie, 1927-1982 1
- Jones, Beatrice Fettic, 1909- 1
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