Notebooks

Abstract George Arthur Bartlett (1869-1951) was a Nevada lawyer; District Attorney of Eureka County, 1898-1900; District Court Judge of Reno, 1918 and 1921-1930; U.S. Representative from Nevada, 1906-1910; and author of the book Men, Women, and Conflict, 1931, which was revised and reissued in 1947 as Is Marriage Necessary? Bartlett's obituaries claimed he granted more than 20,000 divorces, earning him the sobriquet of "the...

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Salesmen's notebooks from J. C. and F. D. Broll. First notebook includes specifications of cedar poles (size and shipping data); the second notebook details jobs for customers of Nevada Machinery and Supply Company, usually for work on water pipes and pumps.

Abstract Jay Arnold Carpenter (1883-1965) was a Nevada professor of mining engineering; chair of the Department of Mackay School of Mines, 1926-1951; director of the Nevada State Bureau of Mines, 1939-1951; consultant, Metal Research Company, 1942-1944; and member of the Nevada State Planning Board, 1940-1951. The collection contains research material on Nevada mines (metals of all types) and mining companies, including the Comstock Lode; engineering field notebooks, correspondence, maps, class notes...

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Captain Charles E. Davis ( -1933) was an amateur historian and expert on westward emigration in the United States. The collection contains Davis' original journals, correspondence, and photographs that document his work on retracing the Donner-Reed Party emigrant trail through Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming to California. Additionally, the collection contains handwritten notes on Davis' visit to the scene of the Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah.

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Erma Perry was a freelance travel writer. Included are manuscripts, both draft and final, for Perry's articles; clippings of her published materials; notebooks containing field notes of many travel destinations; audio tapes and transcripts of a sampling of her interviews; narrated slide shows of travel destinations; and ribbons Perry won from camera club competitions (1954-1993).

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Class notebooks from Price's studies at the University of California and daily journals of 1895, 1897, and 1899. The 1897 journal contains a supply list, recipes, and account of a hiking/camping trek in Yosemite with his wife Jennie, where they placed Sierra Club registers on mountain peaks.

Abstract Andrew H. Scott was a Nevada mineral assayer from Rochester and Lovelock; captain in the United States Air Service under William Mitchell during World War I; and a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, La Societe des 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux, and Knights of Pythias. The collection includes Scott's student work and others from Stanford University, 1906-1907, including student compositions from an English and other classes; roll and minutes for the Lovelock chapter of La Societe des 40 Hommes...

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Jacob Trolson was an Austin, Nevada assayer; Melville Curtis was a mineral surveyor and Lander County Surveyor from 1876-1878. The collection contains assay, survey, level, and transit books, as well as township plats of Austin, Nevada, and diaries of Trolson and Curtis.