Abstract Ruby Duncan (1932- ) is a Nevadan, longtime black welfare rights advocate, organizer of Operation Life (a self-help program for low-income blacks), and formerly on the national board of the National Organization for women. The collection includes the story of Operation Life (O.L.) describing O.L. and its predecessor, the Clark County Welfare Rights Organization. Theresa Traber's thesis, The impact of Operation Nevada, an organizational campaign of the National Welfare Rights Organization...

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Typescript of dissertation written at Johns Hopkins University, giving an iconographical analysis of several elements in the nativity from the altarpiece Maesta by Duccio de Buoninsegna, now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

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Russell Richard Elliott was a Nevada historian, author, and professor in the History Department at the University of Nevada, Reno. Collection contains a bound copy of Russell Elliott's Ph.D. in History thesis from University of California, Berkeley in 1946.

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Robert G. Elston is a Nevada archaeologist and co-owner of Intermountain Research, Silver City, Nevada. The collection contains Elston's Ph.D. dissertation which explores how an examination of flaked stone tool production lends itself to revealing patterns of human behavior (1986).