Women -- Nevada
Found in 60 Collections and/or Records:
Interview of Vida Boyle
Interview by Grace Danberg.,Recollections of household hardships in Virginia City, Nevada, and in the governor's mansion in Carson City.
Kay Bennett Papers
Beta Sigma Phi Scrapbooks
Beta Sigma Phi began as a national women's sorority for self-improvement and community service during the Great Depression in 1931. Scrapbooks for three Lovelock, Nevada chapters include photographs, party favors, guest lists, clippings, and memorabilia (1939-1977).
Deeds transferring claims in the Birdsall Company
Deeds transferring claims in the Birdsall Company, a Virginia City, Nevada silver mining company located on the Montour Ledge. Some of the claims owners were women.
Myram Borders Scrapbooks
Myram Borders (1936- ) is an American journalist, former manager of the Las Vegas bureau of United Press International, and commissioner of the Nevada Commission of Consumer Affairs, 1991-1992. The collection contains scrapbooks which include photographs and newspaper clippings about California and Las Vegas, Nevada, produced while Borders was a commissioner of the Nevada Commission of Consumer Affairs.
The call of the ambulance
Sheet music honoring the Tonopah Ambulance Regiment for service in World War I and A letter accompanying the gift from Barbara Horton Mighels, describes other war-related activities in Tonopah. The collection contains material from 1917 created by Dorothy Marett.
Clippings
Clippings describe the golden wedding anniversary celebrations of Georgie and John B. Dangberg, Prominent ranchers in the Carson Valley of Nevada in 1945.
Mary Coffey Papers
Mary Coffey (1920-2009) was active in Nevada women's rights movements and organizations including Soroptimist International of Nevada. The collection consists primarily of materials related to her interests in women's rights movements and organizations.
Contact, Nevada, reunion
Newspaper clippings and video tape of reunions in 1979 and 1980 of former residents of Contact, Nevada. Contact is now a mining ghost town located between Wells and Jackpot, Nevada. Created by Esther Detweiler Early a former resident of Contact, Nevada and the first child born there.