From the Las Vegas City Commission Records (MS-00237). Index 1 of 2 of Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, 1911-1960. Materials were donated in 1980 and 1985 by Guy Rocha; accession numbers 1980-188 and 1985-088.
From the Las Vegas City Commission Records (MS-00237). Index 2 of 2 of Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, 1911-1960. Materials were donated in 1980 and 1985 by Guy Rocha; accession numbers 1980-188 and 1985-088.
Description provided with image: "L-R Mary Lou Williams, sister of the late Nanelia Doughty; Norton Williams; Susan Jarvis, Special Collections Librarian. The occasion is donation of papers of the late Nan Doughty to UNLV Special Collections. July 29, 1987." Another description provided on an accompanying sheet of paper: "[July 29, 1987, L-R: Mary Lou Williams; Norton Williams; Susan Jarvis]. Currently being processed, the Nan Doughty Collection, donated by her sister, Mary Lou Williams, contains a century's worth of correspondence from the Bradford-Shockley family. The Bradords and Shockleys were intimately involved in mining and land development in Nevada, New Mexico, California, and Oregon, and had been New England shipbuilders in the early 19th century. May Bradford Shockley was the United States' first female surveyor: her letters detail life in Tonopah, Nevada in the early 1900s. her husband, mining engineer William Shockley, traveled the world, and his correspondence describes, among other places, life in and around Candelaria, Nevada in the 1880s. The collection also includes hundreds of early Nevada photographers, mining documents, and maps."