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Beda Cornwall Collection on the Citizen's Library Association of Las Vegas

Identifier

MS-00001

Abstract

The Beda Cornwall Collection on the Citizen's Library Association of Las Vegas consists of material gathered by Beda Brennecke Cornwall that documents the activities of the Citizen's Library Association of Las Vegas during the years 1941 to 1973. Most of the materials document the efforts by the citizens group to raise money in the community to build and sustain a new public library in Las Vegas, Nevada. The remaining part of the collection relates to local and statewide libraries and biographical materials on Beda Cornwall and her husband through various documents and scrapbooks of newspaper clippings.

Archival Collection

Letter from Barbara F. Vucanovich (Washington, D.C.) to Vassili Sulich (Las Vegas, Nevada), March 28, 1992

Date

1992-03-28

Archival Collection

Description

Letter from Nevada Congressional Representative Barbara F. Vucanovich to Vassili Sulich, congratulating and thanking Sulich for his twenty years with the Nevada Dance Theatre.

Text

Fedora Bontempi with Nora Pearson: photographic print

Date

1970

Description

From the Fedora Bontempi Simpkin Photograph Collection (PH-00239). On the left is Fedora Bontempi with Nora Pearson, Las Vegas Grandmother of the year in 1970.

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Photograph of a great rush going in the Pioche Mountains, Weepah, Nevada, 1927

Date

1927

Description

A great rush is going in the Pioche Mountains where gold has been found. Prospecting to show one of the greatest gold stakes in many years.

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