Postcards
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Christmas Cards Collection
Includes three postal cards for Christmas and a "pop-up" card, the Little Snowman's series #2: Winter (New York : McLoughlin Brothers, 1884).
Postcard to Lida Cook
Rachel Updyke was born in Greenwood, New York and moved as a teacher to Pyramid, Nevada between 1900 and 1910. The collection contains one postcard written by Rachel to Lida Cook on January 23, 1910. Rachel talks about living on the edge of a lake, which we know from the postmark is Pyramid Lake.
W. Edmund Hood Scrapbooks
Scrapbooks of photos, postcards, and other souvenirs of vacations and cruises to the U.S., Europe, and around the world.
Johnson-Jeffries Prize Fight Postcard
On July 4, 1910, in Reno, Nevada, the "Fight of the Century" boxing match took place between Jack Johnson and James "Jim" Jeffries. The collection contains one postcard sent by George W. Haigh from Reno, Nevada, to C. O. Rinehard in Seattle, Washington on July 4, 1910, right after the conclusion of the famous Johnson-Jeffries prize fight.
Receipt for Nevada State Statutes
Kathleen Thompson Norris Correspondence
Letter to John Francis Neylan, telling him he didn't need to buy her books or even like "this one". Formerly tipped into Norris' book Family gathering: the memoirs of Kathleen Norris (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday and Company, 1959). Also, a postcard from Norris to Bertha M. Rice about Rice's accident and a book Norris was sending. Tipped into Norris' book Noon an autobiographical sketch.
Post card collection
Collection of post card views of scenes in Nevada, California, Idaho, Oregon, Colorado, Utah, and foreign countries and holiday greeting cards.
Stanley G. Palmer and Prouty Family Papers
Stanley Gustavus Palmer (1887-1975) and Ethel Grace Prouty (1887-1947) were residents of Reno, Nevada and attended the University of Nevada. Stanley was an instructor, professor, and dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Nevada from 1915-1957. The collection contains personal papers and photographs taken by Stanley as well as postcards from the Prouty family.
University Archives Photograph Collection
The University Archives Photograph Collection is comprised of miscellaneous photographs received via donation or purchase that do not belong to a larger collection. These images all document the visual history of the University of Nevada, Reno.
Washoe County, Nevada Postmark Collection
The collection contains five postcards and envelopes with Washoe County post office postmarks, including one from Steamboat (1909), two from Wadsworth (1879 and circa 1880s), one from Flanigan (1951) and one from Pyramid (1954). The 1879 postmark from Wadsworth is written to a William Smith in White Planes, Nevada which was the site of an early 1870s salt discovery. The postcard was written six months before the post office was established there.