The Nevada Historical Society manuscript holdings, which focus on Nevada and the West, consist of over 2,700 collections, ranging in size from a single folder to several hundred cubic feet. The bulk of the materials date from the 1850s to the present. Included are personal papers, topical collections, records of businesses, churches, local governments, and schools, as well as those of civic, educational, charitable, professional, labor, and social organizations. All collections have brief guide descriptions; individual registers or indexes are available for the larger collections.
Among the major collections are the papers of:
U.S. Senator William M. Stewart
U. S. Senator Patrick A. McCarran
George Wingfield
Virginia & Gold Hill Water Co.
Malone Engineers
Truckee-Carson Irrigation District
Nevada Nurses Association
Nevada Federation of Womens Clubs
Works Progress Administration, Nevada
Manhattan Silver Mining Co.
Harold’s Club
AFL-CIO, Nevada
Women’s Christian Temperance Union, Nevada
Knights of Pythias, Nevada
Gold Hill Miner’s Union
Episcopal Church of Nevada
Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada
A Common Thread (statewide quilt study project)
Russell McDonald (index to biographical files for legislators, judges, attorneys)
Jeanne E. Wier
John T. Reid
Nevada Emigrant Trail Marking Committee
U.S. Senator Tasker L. Oddie
Eureka & Palisade Railroad
Yellow Jacket Silver Mining Company
Twentieth Century Club
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local 971
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