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Nevada Division of State Parks Records
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The Nevada Division of State Parks Records consist of materials produced or collected between 1863 and 1978 by the Nevada Division of State Parks. The collection includes materials recovered at Spring Mountain Ranch belonging to the Kiel, George, and Wilson families. The majority of the collection consists of administrative records and correspondence from the Nevada Division of State Parks. It also contains a photograph album of images taken during excavation efforts at the Pueblo Grande de Nevada archaeological site.
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Film transparencies from a Nevada Federation of Women's Clubs trip in Nevada to testify on child abuse prevention legislation, including some from Rhyolite ghost town, and some of Blanche Zucker visiting a children's library, 1984-1985
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Archival Collection
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Murphy, Big Ed, 1914-1965
Born in 1914 in Buckhorn, Nevada with two siblings.
Murphy was a miner primarily in Silver Peak, Nevada.
He boxed against former Heavyweight World Champion, Max Baer, in 1939 and lost by Knock Out in the first round.
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Letter from Calvin M. Cory (Las Vegas) to Edward C. Renwick, December 20, 1952
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Archival Collection
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Cory expresses the legal opinion that in an artesian basin, if you have a water right then the point of diversion makes no difference.
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