Drawings

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Drawings include a compass and sketch map, compass survey, and sketch plan of the mine's claims, all drawn by P.W. Racey.

Abstract William James Henley, Sr. became Justice of the Peace, a position in which he remained until his death in 1909. Benjamin John Henley was the assistant counsel for the Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company. William James Henley, Jr. became an executive with the Isbell Construction Company later in his life. Collection contains mining company information mainly concerning Comstock Lode companies with some from Inyo, Sierra and Nevada Counties, California. Includes reports, deeds, insurance,...

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Ruth Hilts (1923- ) is a Nevada-based artist who works in a variety of mediums including watercolor, acrylics, and charcoal. The Ruth Hilts Papers consist of materials from her personal life and artistic career. Materials include papers, original artwork, photographs, and paint pigments.

Abstract Cameron E. McKay was a mechanical engineer and eventually managed the Natomas Company. The collection includes maps, technical drawings, and assembly diagrams for dredges that McKay worked on or designed in his career as a mechanical engineer, produced for the Natomas Company, Yuba Manufacturing Company, Utah Mining and Construction Company and others in Nevada, Utah, and South America. Also, drilling records and maps for the Greenan placer deposits at Copper Canyon, Battle Mountain, Nevada;...

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Watercolor drawings of Pyramid Lake, Nevada, in winter and spring. The collection contains material from 1914 created by Gilbert Natches.

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Robert A. Griffen (1899-1974) was a writer, painter, and illustrator of Western Americana with special interest in the Montana Blackfoot. Collection contains five original Christmas card drawings by Robert Griffen circa 1944. The drawings depict various scenes typically centered around cowboys and horses. Two drawings depict what appears to be explorers (possibly Spanish) riding with a Native American on foot nearby. Only one of the five drawings is signed with a date.

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Sketches and a woodcut of Nevada scenes by Lewis Carleton Ryan, a brief typescript essay on ghost towns, and an essay/broadside about Ryan by Alan Robert Murray. Sketches include scenes of Virginia City and Rhyolite, Nevada and the desert which range from 1927-1930.

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Drawings of the forty-foot level shafts and of the layout of tunnels one and two of the Keystone Workings mine in Manhattan, Nevada. The collection contains material from Keystone Workings mine; this includes drawings and prints of the mine shaft system.