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 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 70 Collections and/or Records:

Walter Van Tilburg Clark Papers

 Collection
Identifier: NC527
Abstract Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1909-1971) was a Western author, editor of the Alfred Doten diaries, lecturer at the University of Nevada, Reno, and writer-in-residence at the University of Nevada, Reno, 1962-1971. The collection includes notes for class and public lectures; manuscripts of, and notes about Clark's term papers, short stories, articles, and novels, both published and unpublished; scrapbooks containing material related to published works, such as dust jackets, letters received,...
Dates: 1905-1997; Majority of material found within 1927-1971

Ty Cobb Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 97-30
Abstract

Ty Cobb papers consist of personal papers relating to him and his family, as well as his professional role as writer and editor at the Nevada State Journal, and its successor, the Reno Gazette-Journal. Cobb had a sports column “Inside Stuff” and later a column “Cobwebs” which he continued past retirement until his death in 1997. Material between 1881-1997.

Dates: 1881-1997

Tyrus W. Cobb Papers

 Collection
Identifier: NC1330
Abstract

Colonel Tyrus William Cobb (1940- ) is a third-generation Nevadan who worked under President Ronald Reagan as a national security advisor as well as the Director of Soviet, European, and Canadian Affairs. Collection contains materials related to Cobb's time working under President Reagan, as well as information from his time in Vietnam and as a professional outside the White House. Collection materials include photos, newspaper clippings, and other documents.

Dates: 1962-2017

Betty Cole-Graham Papers

 Collection
Identifier: NC1338
Abstract Betty Cole-Graham (1929-2015) was active in musical theater and the arts for nearly her entire life. She founded multiple acting companies in the Bay Area of California as well as South Lake Tahoe. She began collecting sheet music at the age of 10 and continued until her death in 2015. Collection contains sheet music collected by Betty Cole-Graham during her life connected to musical theater and her love of music. Also includes scrapbooks of clippings, photographs, and programs for shows...
Dates: circa late-1940s-2000s

Henry A. Comins Papers

 Collection
Identifier: NC518
Abstract

Correspondence (including some describing Comins' early days in California), land records, stock certificates, election certificates for Assemblyman Daniel C. McDonald, speech to the Nevada Senate president [1899], prose by Comins on Anthony and Cleopatra, a map of the Jennie A Group (mine), copies of Nevada Assembly bill 69 (1895) creating a jurors' per diem fund for White Pine County, and clippings about Comins.

Dates: 1858-1916

Committee to Aid Abused Women Records

 Collection
Identifier: 96-18
Abstract

The Committee to Aid Abused Women (CAAW) was organized in Reno, Nevada, by Joni Kaiser in 1977. CAAW, now the Domestic Violence Resource Center, is a non-profit corporation dedicated to helping victims of domestic violence. It serves the Reno-Sparks area of northern Nevada. Included are minutes of board meetings, annual reports, newsletters, and extensive clippings related to domestic violence and the Committee to Aid Abused Women (1972-1996).

Dates: 1972-1996

Cooke Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2013-20
Abstract Thomas Arthur "Tom" Cooke was a prominent and well-respected lawyer in Reno. He married Martha Patricia "Patty" Herz while in college at the University of Nevada in the early 1940s. The Cooke family was involved in a variety of environmental, recreational, and historic preservation projects and initiatives that sought to improve northern Nevada. Materials cover some aspects of the lives and careers of members of the Cooke and Herz families. Topics include Democratic politics in Nevada,...
Dates: 1855-2009; Majority of material found within 1940-2000

Walter De la Mare Papers

 Collection
Identifier: NC660
Abstract

Includes a typescript biography of de la Mare by an unknown author; manuscripts, possibly by de la Mare; correspondence about him; and newspaper clippings reviewing his work.

Dates: 1918-1945

Alfred Doten Papers

 Collection
Identifier: NC08
Abstract Diaries relating to Alfred Doten's trip from Plymouth, Mass. by sea to California in 1849, his life as a placer miner and rancher in California, and as a newspaperman in Nevada; literary, biographical and historical manuscripts; a complete file of the Como Sentinel and its successor, the Lyon County Sentinel; and clippings of Doten's articles. Other papers relate to Governor C. C. Stevenson of Nevada, the construction of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, the town of Gold Hill, Nevada, and...
Dates: 1834-1972

Donald Drake Research Collection

 Collection
Identifier: NC1341
Abstract

Donald Drake is a history enthusiast and researcher. The collection includes transcribed newspaper articles collected from various historical sources regarding flumes, logging, fires, the Comstock, earthquakes, storms, and other historical events that have taken place in northern Nevada since the 1850s.

Dates: 1856-2012