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Water Supply Forecasts for the Western United States 1961-62 Water Year. Including forecasts prepared by: U.S. Department of Commerce Weather Bureau and State of California Department of Water Resources, Vol 14 No. 4, 1962 April

Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Howard Cannon Papers
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00002
Collection Name: Howard Cannon Papers
Box/Folder: Box 37 (87th Session)

Archival Component

Nevada Watercolor Society Records

Identifier
MS-00510
Abstract

The Nevada Watercolor Society Records (1969-2009) contain watercolor paintings and organizational records pertaining to the Nevada Watercolor Society, a non-profit organization that aims to promote watermedia painting and art appreciation. Organizational records contain materials including by-laws, articles of incorporation, newsletters, exhibit information, tax and financial records, receipts, photographs, negatives, and newspaper clippings. The collection also includes paintings by society members and newspaper clippings about art exhibitions and artists in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Archival Collection

Don Ashbaugh Papers on Nevada Ghost Towns

Identifier
MS-00130
Abstract

The Don Ashbaugh Papers (1950-1960) document Las Vegas history, Nevada history, and ghost towns. The collection is comprised of the working manuscript of Don Ashbaugh's book, Nevada's Turbulent Yesterday: A Study in Ghost Towns. The collection also contains typescript drafts, newspaper clippings, and a geographical index of Nevada ghost towns.

Archival Collection

Nevada Legislature in Carson City, Nevada: photographic prints

Date
1920 (year approximate) to 1929 (year approximate)
Description
From the Albert S. Henderson Photograph Collection (PH-00317). Image 002 has identifications of those pictured.

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C. A. Earle Rinker Photograph Collection of Goldfield, Nevada

Identifier
PH-00350
Abstract

The C. A. Earle Rinker Photograph Collection of Goldfield, Nevada (approximately 1900-1915) contains individual black-and-white photographic prints, photographic albums, black-and-white and tinted postcards, and photographic negatives that document the history of early twentieth century Goldfield, Nevada. The images include photographic prints of Goldfield and surrounding areas during its peak years of 1906-1910; postcards showing scenes of Goldfield, Tonopah, and other areas in central Nevada; and negatives that contain images of Rinker's family and homelife in Indiana and Illinois.

Archival Collection

County map of Utah and Nevada, 1865

Date
1865
Description
'Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the U.S. for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania . Drawn and engraved by W.H. Gamble, Philadelphia.' Shows roads, overland telegraph route, and other features. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. Scale [ca. 1:2,787,840] (W 120°--W 109°/N 43°--N 36° 59?).

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"Some comments on the question of a law school for Nevada" by Leonard E. Goodall

Date
1980 (year approximate)
Description

Folder contains a paper titled "Some Comments on the Question of A Law School for Nevada" by Leonard E. Goodall, President, University of Nevada, Las Vegas for the use of the consulting firm of Cresap, McCormick and Paget, and the Law School Advisory Committee, Judge William Beko, Chairman, and the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada System, Robert Cashell, Chairman. From the University of Nevada, Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law Records (UA-00048).

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Nevada Desert Experience sign: photographic print

Date
1980 (year approximate) to 2000 (year approximate)
Description
A protest at the Nevada Test Site circa 1980-1999. A Nevada Desert Experience sign says, "Healing the Earth, Healing ourselves. One planet. One air. One water. One land. One people."

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Nevada Nurses Association Records

Identifier
MS-00240
Abstract

Collection is comprised of the organizational records of the Nevada Nurses Association dating from 1945 through 1995. Topics addressed by the material include Planned Parenthood, state legislature on health care, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and League of Women Voters. Types of material in the collection include clippings, association history, membership information, receipts, correspondence, convention notes and programs, alumni directory, newsletters, pamphlets, meeting minutes, and scrapbooks.

Archival Collection

Map showing configuration of potentiometric surfaces in Paleozoic and Cenozoic aquifers in the area between the Las Vegas Valley and the Amargosa Desert, Nevada, 1963

Date
1963
Description
'Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey. TEI-840.' 'Prepared in cooperation with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.' 'Contours in northwest Las Vegas Valley from Malmberg, 1961.' Relief shown by contours. Shows township and range lines. Scale [ca. 1:253,440. 1 in.=aprrox. 4 miles] (W 114°00´--W 115°00´--N 37°00´/N 36°00´). Originally published in A summary of the ground-water hydrology of the area between the Las Vegas Valley and the Amargosa Desert, Nevada : with special reference to the effects of possible new withdrawals of ground water / by Isaac J. Winograd, published by the U.S. Geological Survey in 1963 as number 840 of the Trace elements investigations report.

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