Basque Americans -- Nevada

Abstract

Various pamphlets from different Basque-American festivals and exhibitions, a 2017 calendar, stickers, festival and events posters, pamphlets from the Basque Museum in Boise, booklet of the Jaialdi 95' in Boise, a scarf from Basque Soccer Friendly, a retrospective booklet of San Francisco Basque Club and two posters. It also includes two booklets one showing Basque sheepherder's tree carvings and the other, 'Amerikanuak!', about Basques in the U.S.

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Basque items related to the Basque Exhibition at Smithsonian Folk Festival, such as pamphlets, posters, photographs of tree carving and typical Basque fisher's neckerchief.

Content Description

Five video files created from the digitization of silent Super 8 of raw footage from the Elko Basque Festival 1979. The videos contain images of the sports demostrations like weight lifting (harrijasotzaileak and txinga-eramatea), tug of war (sokatira), Basque ball (pelota) and aizkolariak; dances and dancers; audience; the bread contest and the luncheon.

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Documentation, clippings, news articles, papers, letters and correspondence regarding the Basque Festival in Sparks, the Basque Monument in Reno, the Basques in the Contemporary World Seminar, in Reno, and other Basque issues. It also includes several different newspapers.

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Correspondence of Dominique Laxalt, mostly from family members from Iparralde (Northen Basque Country). Among them, an "Americanismo Medal".

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Includes a letter, a cassette and three photos.

Content Description Collection compiles the histories of the Etchemendy-Uhalde family. One document details the story about John Etchemendy, Sr., the donor's maternal grandfather. The second document relates the story about the donor's father, Raymond Lionel Uhalde, and his parents and ancestors. They were Basque Nevadans, who returned to the Basque country as children for 20 years, then returned to the States and served in WWII. The third document recounts the story about the war years of John Etchemendy, Jr.,...

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Several Basque grammar, etymology and dictionary drafts, notebooks, photocopied articles regarding Basque issues, various booklets, tourism pamphlets and newspaper clippings. There are also 18 books written by numeous authors and on various subjects, mostly on Basque and French subjects.

Scope and Contents

The collection includes materials (notes, drafts, correspondence) related to each of the main works by Frank Bergon, both academic and fictional writings; essays and reviews; correspondence, both professional and personal; materials related to Basque topics and family life, including an extensive collection of photographs.

Abstract

Various bookmarks on four different designs, Basque Library pamphlets, some of exhibitions, pamphlets regarding Basque Databases and Basque Library's rules, a thin magazine showing recently graduated library student workers and a poster from 'Bertsolari' documentary projection.