Nevada Women's Archives - Collection Directory
This directory lists manuscript collections that are considered to be women's collections. The general criteria for inclusion as a women's collection is that the collection contain material by or about women's lives or roles. Specific examples include:
- papers of a woman
- records of a women's organization
- records of an organization, institution, or movement in which women played a significant part
- records of an organization, institution, or movement that significantly affected women
- groups of materials assembled around a theme (artificial collection)
- papers of a family in which there are papers of female members
- collection that contains significant material about women but whose title may not indicate so
The focus shown for each collection is generally very broad. For a large collection, the details of the collection have not been shown. For a small collection, more detail is given. To obtain more information about a collection, it is necessary to go to the next levels of research: NEON catalog, collection guide, and collection inventory.
Allied Arts Council
- Focus: artists' organization
- Dates: 1970's
- Types of materials: rosters, minutes, clippings
- Collection number: T-109
- Linear feet: .5
Aplin, Hilda
- Focus: women's organizations
- Dates: 1927-71
- Types of materials: notes, photos, scrapbooks
- Collection number: T-061
- Linear feet: 1.0
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American War Mothers
- Focus: women's organization
- Dates: 1950-60s
- Types of materials: scrapbooks
- Collection number: 94-027
- Linear feet: 1.0
Asians in Nevada
- Focus: ethnic issues
- Dates: 1901-
- Types of materials: interviews, biographies, correspondence collected by Dr. Sue Fawn Chung
- Collection number: 93-021
- Linear feet: .5
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Augustine, Kathy
- Focus: legislature, community groups, Nat Fnd for Women Legislators
- Dates: 1990's
- Types of materials: campaign materials, poster, programs
- Collection number: 95-038
- Linear feet: .5
Barcus, Clyde & Edith Giles
- Focus: mining, business, Goldfield, NV
- Dates: 1919-70's
- Types of materials: papers, correspondence, receipts
- Collection number: T-138
- Linear feet: 4.5
Boulder City 21st Anniversary
- Focus: community event
- Dates: 1981
- Types of materials: programs, speeches (women involvement)
- Collection number: T-173
- Linear feet: .5
Brewington, Ann
- Focus: family life, political activities (sister of Gov. Vail Pittman)
- Dates: 1984-87
- Types of materials: correspondence, clippings
- Collection number: 87-072
- Linear feet: .5
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Brookman, Eileen
- Focus: legislature, Jewish organizations, political issues, senior issues
- Dates: 1970-90's
- Types of materials: campaign materials, political memorabilia, press releases, clippings, legislative materials, photo albums
- Collection number: 95-014
- Linear feet: 13.0
Brooks, Sheilagh
- Focus: archaeology, historic preservation, NV State Museum
- Dates: 1970-80's
- Types of materials: inventory forms, memos, board minutes, members
- Collection number: 87-048, 90-010
- Linear feet: 1.0, 1.5
Brown, Dora Lee
- Focus: grazing rights, Indian affairs
- Dates: 1904-46
- Types of materials: correspondence
- Collection number: x23
- Linear feet: .2
Brown, Lori Lipman
- Focus: legislature, education
- Dates: 1964-94
- Types of materials: campaign materials, photos, programs
- Collection number:: 95-010
- Linear feet: .5
Bunker Family
- see Syphus-Bunker Families
Butterfield, Georgia & Spencer
- Focus: postmistress, Mesquite Club, banking
- Dates: 1940-60's
- Types of materials: clippings, correspondence, photos
- Collection number: T-111
- Linear feet: 1.5
Byrne, Grace Winkleman
- Focus: writer
- Dates: 1950's
- Types of materials: local histories
- Collection number: 1006
- Linear feet: .2
Cahlan, Florence & John
- Focus: columnist, water resources, community activities, social events
- Dates: 1940-80's
- Types of materials: speeches, papers, articles, research materials, correspondence, invitations, memos
- Collection number: T-128
- Linear feet: 19.5
Campaign for Choice
- Focus: abortion
- Dates: 1989-92
- Types of materials: correspondence, clippings, audio, videos, financial records, minutes, fact sheets
- Collection number: 95-011
- Linear feet: .5
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Cashman, James Sr.
- Focus: banking, family life
- Dates: 1901-60's
- Types of materials: financial records, clippings
- Collection number: T-041sep
- Linear feet: 2.0, 2.0
Champo, Stella (Iaconis)
- Focus: family life
- Dates: 1924-27
- Types of materials: autograph book, certificates, photo albums
- Collection number: 1031sep
- Linear feet: .2, 1.5
Children's Service Guild
- Focus: juvenile court programs, juvenile activities
- Dates: 1947-74
- Types of materials: clippings, reports
- Collection number: 93-029
- Linear feet: 3.0
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Clark County Economic Opportunity Board
- Focus: low income programs
- Dates: 1974-75
- Types of materials: scrapbooks
- Collection number: T-103
- Linear feet: 6.0
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Clark County Bicentennial Celebration
- Focus: comunity event
- Dates: 1974-75
- Types of materials: scrapbooks
- Collection number: T-103
- Linear feet: 6.0
Clark County Child Care Association
- Focus: child care providers
- Dates: 1950-70's
- Types of materials: correspondence, financial records, minutes, rosters
- Collection number: T-083
- Linear feet: .5
Clark County Mother of the Year
- Focus: community event
- Dates: 1970-87
- Types of materials: correspondence, biographies
- Collection number: 89-053
- Linear feet: 1.0
Clement, Mary Edna Brown
- Focus: music
- Dates: 1955
- Types of materials: musical scores, correspondence
- Collection number: x39
- Linear feet: .5
Cornwall, Beda
- Focus: education, libraries, community service
- Dates: 940-70's
- Types of materials: correspondence, programs
- Collection number: MS 01
- Linear feet: 1.0
Cragin, Sealy (Mrs. E.W.)
- Focus: family life (mayor's wife), women's organizations
- Dates: 1940's
- Types of materials: correspondence, programs, clippings, photos
- Collection number: 77-076
- Linear feet: .5
Crisler, Clara M
- Focus: women's organizations
- Dates: 1865-1944
- Types of materials: correspondence, pamphlets, clippings, mementos
- Collection number: 1865-1944
- Linear feet: .5
Cunningham, Cynthia
- Focus: education, equal rights, health
- Dates: 1974-77
- Types of materials: audio tapes, films, posters, clippings, publications, reports
- Collection number: 87-037
- Linear feet: 2.0
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Cunningham, Erma
- Focus: education, Nelson, NV
- Dates: 1941-49
- Types of materials: school registers, curriculum
- Collection number: T-065
- Linear feet: .5
Daniels, Beth
- Focus: writer (fiction)
- Dates: 1980's
- Types of materials: transcripts, research materials
- Collection number: 93-035
- Linear feet: 5.0
Daughters of the American Revolution
- Focus: women's organization
- Dates: 1950-80's
- Types of materials: rosters, clippings, programs, essays, correspondence, speeches, receipts, notes, cards, conference materials, publications, scrapbooks, yearbooks
- Collection number: 87-126, 93-024, 95-005, T-146, sep
- Linear feet: 8.0, 2.0, 4.5, 2.5, 1.0
Daughters of Union Veterans
- Focus: women's organization
- Dates: 1940-53
- Types of materials: scrapbook, clippings, photos, handbook
- Collection number: 78-099
- Linear feet: 1.5
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Decker, Clarabelle
- Focus: education, writer
- Dates: 1926-80
- Types of materials: educational materials, pamphlets, correspondence, publications
- Collection number: 86-009
- Linear feet: 1.0
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Deskin, Ruthe
- Focus: journalism, publishing, community activities
- Dates: 1960-1994
- Types of materials: photos, clippings, correspondence, programs, proclamations
- Collection number: 95-037
- Linear feet: .5
Dick, Mida Mae
- Focus: local history
- Dates: 1957-86
- Types of materials: clippings, hotel brochures, advertisements
- Collection number: 86-010
- Linear feet: 1.0
Dokter, Betty Ham
- Focus: family life
- Dates: 1857-1971
- Types of materials: correspondence, postcards, clippings
- Collection number: x36
- Linear feet: .5
Dondero, Thalia
- Focus: county government, political issues, social issues, Parent Teacher Assn.
- Dates: 1966-90's
- Types of materials: speeches, reports, budgets, booklets, meeting minutes
- Collection number: 94-048
- Linear feet: 37.0
Dondich, Josie
- Focus: business
- Dates: 1942-62
- Types of materials: liquor store records, correspondence
- Collection number: 86-021
- Linear feet: .5
Dorothy, Dorothy
- Focus: community organizations, political organizations, humane society, Pahrump, NV
- Dates: 1783-1985
- Types of materials: scrapbooks, photo albums, correspondence, programs, family histories
- Collection number: 95-020
- Linear feet: 9.5
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Doughty, Nan
- Focus: education, journalism, mining, railroads
- Dates: 1845-1987
- Types of materials: family correspondence, diaries, clippings, manuscript drafts, deeds, photos
- Collection number: MS 21
- Linear feet: 33.5
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Dungan, Flora
- Focus: legislature, university board of regents
- Dates: 1929-73
- Types of materials: school records, certificates, correspondence, financial records, business records, clippings, reports, audio tapes
- Collection number: T-117
- Linear feet: 4.0
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Edwards, Elbert
- Focus: history
- Dates: 1903-93
- Types of materials: genealogical records, biographies, research materials
- Collection number: 94-038
- Linear feet: .5
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Eglington, Olive Lake
- Focus: early settler
- Dates: 1912-45
- Types of materials: invitations, photos, school programs, mementos
- Collection number: T-036
- Linear feet: 1.0
Evans, Dorothy Casner
- Focus: chauffeur
- Dates: 1940-54
- Types of materials: license, receipt
- Collection number: x27
- Linear feet: .2
Fayle, Leonard
- Focus: mayor, family history
- Dates: 1848-1976
- Types of materials: recollections, narratives
- Collection number: x08
- Linear feet: .2
Ferron, William E
- Focus: mayor, family life
- Dates: 1917-76
- Types of materials: family histories, newsclippings
- Collection number: x41
- Linear feet: .5
Fong, Lilly
- Focus: university board of regents, community activities, Chinese organizations
- Dates: 1960-90's
- Types of materials: budgets, correspondence, newsletters, cookbooks, campaign brochures, clippings, university reports & budgets, conference materials
- Collection number: 86-039, 86-043, 86-059, 86-080, 87-009, 87-051, 88-038, 90-058, 93-025, T-148
- Linear feet: 1.0, .5, .5, 1.0, .5, 2.5, 2.0, 1.0, 1.0, 35.0
Ford, Jean
- Focus: legislature, political issues, social issues, parks and recreation, environmental issueswomen's issues
- Dates: 1958-85
- Types of materials: campaign materials, correspondence, reports, photos, pamphlets, conference materials, mailing lists, press releases, maps
- Collection number: MS 25
- Linear feet: 19.5
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Frazier, Maude
- Focus: education, legislature
- Dates: 1955-62
- Types of materials: programs, yearbook, certificates
- Collection number: x30
- Linear feet: .5
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Garrett, Elton & Madelaine
- Focus: real estate, education, Boulder City, National Park Service, community activities
- Dates: 1917-90's
- Types of materials: correspondence, receipts, statements, diaries, calendars, notes, clippings, photos
- Collection number: 93-040, 93-043
- Linear feet: 91.0, 53.0
Gilhouse, Fred & Eva
- Focus: writer
- Dates: 1950-60's
- Types of materials: correspondence, speeches, clippings, photos
- Collection number: T-056
- Linear feet: .5
Goldfield, Nevada
- Focus: mining, Goldfield Women's Club
- Dates: 1906-23
- Types of materials: mining business records, club record books, minutes, bylaws
- Collection number: MS 10
- Linear feet: 1.0
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Governor's Conference on Libraries
- Focus: library issues
- Dates: 1978
- Types of materials: photos
- Collection number: 85-092
- Linear feet: 1.0
Governor's Conference on Women
- Focus: women's issues
- Dates: 1989
- Types of materials: organizational records, programs, reports
- Collection number: 95-013
- Linear feet: .5
Governor's Commission on Status of People
- Focus: equal rights
- Dates: 1975-77
- Types of materials: appointments, minutes, reports
- Collection number: T-176
- Linear feet: 1.0
Gragson, Oran
- Focus: mayor, labor unions
- Dates: 1960-70's
- Types of materials: memos, correspondence, notes, reports, photos
- Collection number: T-086
- Linear feet: 16.0
Grant, Archie & Zora
- Focus: legislature, university board of regents, women's organizations
- Dates: 1910-70's
- Types of materials: clippings, correspondence
- Collection number: T-025
- Linear feet: 1.0
Grattan-Aiello, Carolyn
- Focus: education
- Dates: 1980's
- Types of materials: transcripts of student oral history interviews
- Collection number: 86-045, 87-069
- Linear feet: 1.0, .5
Gregory, Arthur
- Focus: engineering
- Dates: 1920-70's
- Types of materials: correspondence, family history
- Collection number: T-162
- Linear feet: .5
Ham, Jane
- Focus: legislature
- Dates: 1980's
- Types of materials: legislative files, correspondence, reports
- Collection number: T-168
- Linear feet: 5.0
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Hammond, Lena
- Focus: early settler, Goldfield, NV
- Dates: 1910-20's
- Types of materials: scrapbook, photo album, correspondence, clippings
- Collection number: sep
- Linear feet: 1.0
Hancock, Doris
- Focus: education, art
- Dates: 1930-85
- Types of materials: clippings, scrapbook, travel diaries, postcards, correspondence
- Collection number: 85-119, 86-035, 87-059, T-159
- Linear feet: .5, 1.0, 1.0, .5
Harmon, Harley
- Focus: banking, political
- Dates: 1910-20
- Types of materials: scrapbooks, correspondence, clippings
- Collection number: T-180
- Linear feet: 2.0
Harrington, Elizabeth
- Focus: writer, Potosi, NV
- Dates: 1975-79
- Types of materials: stories, recollections of early Southern Nevada
- Collection number: T-165
- Linear feet: .5
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Hayes, Grace
- Focus: entertainment
- Dates: 1900-89
- Types of materials: photos, correspondence, receipts
- Collection number: 86-075
- Linear feet: 2.0
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Henderson, City of
- Focus: city history
- Dates: 1958-87
- Types of materials: scrapbooks, news clippings, photos
- Collection number: sep
- Linear feet: 16.0
Houghton, Fred
- Focus: mining, law, women's organizations, entertainment
- Dates: 1920-70's
- Types of materials: legal documents, financial records, law cases, correspondence
- Collection number: 89-076, T-135
- Linear feet: 2.0, 9.0
Humphries, Kathy (Quinn)
- Focus: Native Americans
- Dates: 1960-70's
- Types of materials: photo negatives, kinship chart, tape of Paiute vocabulary, family history
- Collection number: 1017
- Linear feet: .2
Janish, Jeanne R
- Focus: botany, geology, art
- Dates: 1833-1994
- Types of materials: diaries, correspondence, journals, certificates, awards, watercolors, sketches, manuscripts
- Collection number: 95-031
- Linear feet: 10.0
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Jensen, Ellen B
- Focus: writer
- Dates: 1960's
- Types of materials: newspaper articles
- Collection number: T-018
- Linear feet: .5
Junior League of Las Vegas (fka Service League)
- Focus: women's organization
- Dates: 1946-80's
- Types of materials: rosters, photos/text for LV history video, scrapbooks
- Collection number: T-099, sep
- Linear feet: 2.5, 6.5
Kearns, Ardis
- Focus: women's organizations, political issues, social issues
- Dates: 1960-70's
- Types of materials: notes, publications, reports, correspondence
- Collection number: 95-012
- Linear feet: 6.0
Keeler, Dorothy
- Focus: family life
- Dates: 1920-70's
- Types of materials: correspondence, biography, photo album
- Collection number: T-121, sep
- Linear feet: 1.0 .5
Kepper, Anna Dean
- Focus: history
- Dates: 1970-80's
- Types of materials: oral history interviews, slides, articles, thesis, research notes
- Collection number: 87-044
- Linear feet: 5.0
Key, Alice
- Focus: entertainment, civil rights
- Dates: 1930-95
- Types of materials: clippings, photos, correspondence, video
- Collection number: 95-47
- Linear feet: .5
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