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Phi Delta Kappa sorority records
Folder of materials from the Mabel Hoggard Papers (MS-00565) -- Civic engagement file. National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa certificate, journal, meeting minutes, program, and poem.
Mixed Content
Letter from J. T. McWilliams (Las Vegas) to William McDermott, November 29, 1902
McWilliams provides surveying information and recommends purchasing the springs that lay outside the boundaries of the Stewart Ranch.
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Letter from H. I. Bettis (Los Angeles) to C. O. Whittemore (Salt Lake City), W. H. Comstock (Los Angeles), J. Ross Clark (Los Angeles), W. H. Bancroft (Salt Lake City), and T. E. Gibbon (Los Angeles), April 12, 1906
There were more lots in Las Vegas occupied than paid water connections, and the letter discusses the best method to get unauthorized users to pay.
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Letter from M. S. Beal (Las Vegas) to Henry Thurtell (Carson City, Nevada), September 25, 1906
Lawyer notifying the state engineer that Peter Buol had applied for some water from the Las Vegas Creek, which entire length and the springs were on land owned by the railroad on the basis that some of the water was wasted and therefore available.
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Letter from H. I. Bettis (Los Angeles) to J. Ross Clark, October 17, 1906
Discussion of the financial aspects of the Las Vegas Land and Water Company in relation to the Railroad.
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Correspondence, F.R. McNamee to H.E. George
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Option to purchase kaolin deposit
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Resolutions marking passing of Hampton George
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Tonopah, Nevada Mining Town Photograph Album
The Tonopah, Nevada Mining Town Photograph Album (approximately 1908) consists of twenty-two photographs in a leather-bound album. The photographs depict businesses, townspeople, street scenes, and mining operations in Tonopah, Nevada and the surrounding areas of Goldfield, Nevada and Mina, Nevada. Also included are photographs of a fire on May 12, 1908 that destroyed a block of commercial buildings in Tonopah, which were taken by local photographer E. W. Smith., and views of the downtown area both before and after the fire.
Archival Collection
The Wheel of Rotary Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, April 6, 1950 with handwriting
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