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Nye County, Nevada and the Mineral Resources of Her Fifty Mining Camps, Tonopah Promotion Association, 1909 September
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: C. A. Earle Rinker Papers
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 09
Archival Component
"The Story of a Mining Camp" by a Tenderfoot at Tonopah, Leslie's Weekly, 1903 January 08
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: C. A. Earle Rinker Papers
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 09
Archival Component
Rhyolite: Metropolis of Southern Nevada, approximately 1907
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: C. A. Earle Rinker Papers
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 09
Archival Component
Daily list: The Bullfrog Miner, 1907 April 12
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: C. A. Earle Rinker Papers
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 12
Archival Component
Rhyolite Board of Trade promotional sheet, 1906 October 26
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: C. A. Earle Rinker Papers
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 12
Archival Component
C. Vern Olmstead professional papers, 1940-1966
Level of Description
Scope and Contents
The C. Vern Olmstead professional papers series (1940-1966) includes printed speeches, notes, photographic prints, and color slides created by Olmstead for conferences and educational classes pertaining to meat packing, cutting, marketing, and distribution. This series also contains photographs and news articles of Olmstead demonstrating proper meat cutting techniques for the United States Armed Forces.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: C. Vern Olmstead Professional Papers
Box/Folder: Box 01, Box 02, Box 03, Box 04
Archival Component
Armour & Company organizational records, 1943-1975
Level of Description
Scope and Contents
The Armour & Company organizational records series (1943-1975) contains Armour & Company interdepartmental correspondence, internally published newsletters, sales figures, meat packing statistics, and press releases. These records detail the company's attempts to improve worker efficiency, encourage workplace safety, maximize sales revenue, reduce waste, and promote the company's public image. The series also contains instructional guides, booklets, and newsletters published by Armour & Company for processing and selling meat products.
Armour & Company was a meat packing company founded by Philip Danforth Armour, along with his brothers Herman and Joseph, in Chicago, Illinois in 1967. The company primarily focused on meat packing, but also sold products create from animal byproducts including canned food, soap, and pharmaceuticals. Armour & Company was divideded and sold to different companies over time, and its current parent company is Conagra Brands.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: C. Vern Olmstead Professional Papers
Box/Folder: Box 05, Box 06, Box 07, Box 08, Box 09, Box 10, Box 11, Box 12, Box 13, Box 14, Box 15, Box 16, Box 17
Archival Component
Reports and publications on meat handling and marketing, 1945-1975
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Scope and Contents
The reports and publications on meat handling and marketing series (1945-1975) contains papers describing the state of the meat packing industry and its related fields. Reports include statistics and studies on meat sales, quality control, and marketing.
Sales reports describe the meat packing industry's financial trends, with specific information about the types of products sold, method of selling, and cost estimations for various sections and cuts of meat.
Quality control reports contain meat handling instructions for sellers and detailed guides and photographs describing proper practices in butchering, meat preparation, and popular culinary uses. Types of meat documented include beef, pork, and poultry. Also included are meat-to-cost estimation rulers with usage instructions.
Publications include legislation related to the meat packing industry, corporate management guides, and marketing guides. There are also newsletters, magazines, and newspaper clippings pertaining to events relevant to the meat packing industry such as conferences, news releases on new packing techniques, advertisements for packing companies, and articles highlighting industry professionals.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: C. Vern Olmstead Professional Papers
Box/Folder: Box 18, Box 19, Box 20, Box 21, Box 22, Box 23, Box 24, Box 25, Box 26, Box 27, Box 28, Box 29, Box 30, Box 31, Box 32, Box 33, Box 34, Box 35, Box 36, Box 37, Box 38, Box 39, Box 40, Box 41, Box 42, Box 43, Box 44, Box 45, Box 46, Box 47, Box 48, Box 49, Box 50, Box 51, Box 52, Box 53, Box 54, Box 55, Box 56, Box 57
Archival Component
Member forms, initiations, constitutions, memoranda, and meeting announcements, 1966-1984
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Phi Kappa Phi Records
Box/Folder: Box 10
Archival Component
Portrait photographs of Harley E. Harmon and Harley L. Harmon, 1940s-1950s
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Harmon Family Papers
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 07
Archival Component