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Southern Nevada Historical Society Records

Identifier

MS-00205

Abstract

The Southern Nevada Historical Society Records document the management and development of the Southern Nevada Historical Society (SNHS) as well as various historical projects in Las Vegas and Southern Nevada that the society sponsored from 1948 to 1983. The records include SNHS correspondence (1951-1978), meeting minutes (1958-1983), and accounting information (1959-1980). It also contains copies of the SNHS Backtrails Newsletter, promotional material for events, membership lists, and research materials for various projects related to the history of southern Nevada and Las Vegas.

Archival Collection

Societies, 2003

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Southern Nevada Daughters of the American Revolution Records

Archival Component

Geological Society of America, Cordilleran Section Records

Identifier

MS-00112

Abstract

The Geological Society of America, Cordilleran Section Records contain materials from the annual April meeting in 1974 and a paper about lateral faulting in Southern Nevada written by Chester R. Longwell.

Archival Collection

Red Rock Audubon Society Records

Identifier

MS-00393

Abstract

Red Rock Audubon Society Records (1981-1996) contain correspondence, field trip notifications, newspaper clippings, fliers, and copies of the Society's newsletter, The Rock Wren.

Archival Collection

Central Nevada Historical Society Photograph Collection

Identifier

PH-00082

Abstract

The Central Nevada Historical Society Photograph Collection (1880-1982) contains photographs from central Nevada towns, mines, and railroads. The photographs primarily depict events and mining operations from the early-twentieth century in or around Tonopah, Goldfield, Belmont, Manhattan, Montezuma, and Big Smoky Valley. The photographs also depict the Tonopah & Goldfield Railroad, the Las Vegas & Tonopah Railroad, the "Priscilla" nuclear bomb test at the Nevada Test Site, horse-drawn freight carriages, and building construction. Other towns also featured in the collection include Silver Peak, Bullfrog, Rawhide, Ellendale, Columbus, Berlin, Palmetto, Gilbert, Blair, Klondyke, Wahmonie, Diamondfield, Miller's, and Candelaria.

Archival Collection

University Library Society

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Blanche Zucker-Bozarth Papers

Archival Component

Nevada Petroleum Society

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

David Donovan Collection on Hydrology and Geology

Archival Component

Nevada Historical Society

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

UNLV Libraries Collection of Regional History Files

Archival Component