Nevada Historical Society



Nevada

Historical

Society

Resources for Teachers

Featuring

Field Trips

Guided and Self-guided Museum Tours

History on Wheels:

Outreach into the Schools

Useful Stuff in the Museum Store

Including a 20% teacher discount

Research Opportunities

In the Library and Collections

Nevada Historical Society, 1650 N. Virginia Street, Reno, NV 89503

Nevada Historical Society

Resources for Teachers

A partnership with the Nevada Historical Society will help teachers meet their educational goals. The Historical Society’s galleries, outreach programs, and events support a variety of classroom needs including lesson planning and alternative, interactive learning opportunities. The Historical Society is the state’s oldest museum, and the largest and most complete repository of materials related to the history of Nevada and the Great Basin. From its beginnings in 1904, the Historical Society has dedicated itself to preserving and interpreting Nevada’s history through its collections of objects, photographs, manuscripts, and library materials. The five galleries in the permanent exhibition tell the different stories of how people have lived here more than 13,000 years. The Changing and Entry galleries offer a fresh look at a wide range of Nevada themes from art to artifacts.

This packet has been developed to assist teachers in the preparation of Nevada history lesson plans and with planning for field trips. The Nevada Historical Society provides a variety of ways to serve the educational goals of Nevada teachers. Field trips to the Historical Society provide a means of alternative, interactive learning through objects and presentations by live interpreters, and our galleries were designed in conformance with State and local history curriculum standards.

We hope you will read through this material and make the Historical Society a part of your annual history programming. We invite you to contact the education department at 775-688-1191, ext. 223 for additional information or to schedule tours. Or visit our website at (click Division of Museums and History, then Nevada Historical Society).

Note: The Nevada Historical Society’s educational programs serve the Washoe County and northern Nevada area. For educational museum programs in southern Nevada, contact the State Museum and Historical Society, 700 Twin Lakes Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada 89107, (702) 486-5205.

Table of Contents

I. Planning a Field Trip to the Nevada Historical Society

Basic Tour Information

Museum Manners

Description of our Galleries

Guided-tour Reservation Form

II. Self-guided Museum Tours for Organized School Groups

Self-guided Tour Reservation Form

III. History on Wheels: Outreach Programs

History on Wheels Reservation Form

IV. A Sampling of Resources for Students and Teachers at the Nevada Historical Society Museum Store

V. Research Opportunities in the Library and Collections

I. planning a field trip to the nevada historical society

Museum exhibits give students the opportunity to ask questions about the past and find their own answers. A field trip to the Nevada Historical Society can be integrated into Nevada history units using the background information provided on the next few pages.

Basic Tour Information

To arrange a field trip to the Nevada Historical Society, please call the education department at 775-688-1191, ext. 223. Select a day and time for your visit, and one or two alternate dates. The months of October and May are busy months for field trips, so we ask that you make reservations for those months as far in advance as possible. The Historical Society is adjacent the Fleischmann Planetarium. This allows for a combination trip, which makes for good use of bus and field trip time. Should you need to cancel a tour date, please notify us as soon as possible.

Museum tours typically last 60 minutes, but they can be tailored to the specific needs of your group. We can accommodate up to 40 students at one time. Groups with 40 or more students are encouraged to book a self-guided tour (see section II). When a group arrives at the Historical Society, it will be split into two smaller groups. One will go on a 30-minute tour of the permanent gallery, while the second group enjoys a 30-minute exploration of the Hands-On History Cart. At the end of the first 30 minutes, the groups switch places. If you choose to do a self-guided tour of the Historical Society, we are happy to provide you with a scavenger hunt to encourage exploration in the permanent galleries. We offer two scavenger hunts. One is geared to 2nd and 3rd graders, the other for 4th through 6th. If you would like to receive the scavenger hunt, please let us know at the time you book your visit.

Members of the Nevada Historical Society Docent Council are responsible for leading tours of the Historical Society galleries and introducing students to the objects on the Hands-On History Cart. The docents are trained volunteer museum guides who, using the Historical Society galleries, lead a general tour of Nevada History. If you would like the field trip to emphasize a specific aspect of Nevada history, please let us know when you make your field trip arrangements.

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Museum Manners

The word “muse” means “to think.” A museum is a place to think, to explore, to discover, and to learn. This should be reflected in the way visitors conduct themselves while in a museum. Prior to your arrival, please review with your group the following comments on museum etiquette. It is not our wish to quell any enthusiasm, but it may be helpful if everyone is aware of acceptable behavior in a museum setting. Appropriate behavior makes it easier for all visitors to focus their attention on the displays and learn from their experience.

• Do not run in the museum.

• Do not touch anything on display unless there is a “please touch” sign. There are several hands-on activities to use while in the museum. Please listen to the tour guide as to when it is appropriate to use them.

• Do not eat, drink, or chew gum in the museum.

• Do not take photographs in the museum.

• If your tour is a guided one, please note that our guides have much information to impart. Please listen and feel free to ask lots of questions.

• For students—a pencil is the only writing tool to be used while filling out an activity sheet in the galleries. Using a pencil as a pointer could ruin an artifact or hurt someone. Please be careful. While filling out the activity sheet, the museum will provide clipboards for each student. It is important to use these clipboards instead of leaning against walls, artifacts, or using display cases as writing surfaces, since it could possibly cause damage to these items.

• Finally, your guide is a valued volunteer. Please express your appreciation.

Gallery Description

The story of Nevada’s history is told in the Nevada Historical Society’s permanent galleries through artifacts, photographs, maps, and text. The content of the galleries was developed in consideration of State and local history curriculum standards and provides alternative, interactive learning through objects and live interpreters. Nevada: Prisms & Perspectives tells five crucial stories about life in the Silver State.

Living on the Land

Although the land of the eastern Sierra Nevada and the Great Basin appears to be a difficult place to live, people have been living off the land for over 10,000 years. Paleolithic (stone age) Native Nevadans lived by taking only what they needed for food and shelter, and nurturing what was left so that they could return, in time, to again use resources for survival. About 1,000 years ago in the southern part of the state, the Anazai (the “Ancient Ones” in Hopi) built adobe towns and farmed the rich bottom lands of the Virgin and Muddy river valleys. More recently, four major groups have occupied what is now Nevada. The Washoe are in the corner around Lake Tahoe. The Northern Paiute range extends into what is now Oregon and Idaho, and to the southwest toward Owens Valley. To the east, the Western Shoshone range fills the middle section, and the Southern Paiute range includes parts of both Nevada and Utah.

Around the middle of the nineteenth century, Euroamericans began arriving in the Great Basin, first looking for wealth in the form of beaver pelts (used to make hats), and gold and silver. Later they came to stay, turning to farming and ranching. Today ranching and farming continue to prosper in Nevada. Although most of Nevada’s towns were founded to support mining or transportation, some have always been agricultural centers as well. In addition to cattle, sheep, and dairy farming, favored products include alfalfa, garlic, potatoes, and onions.

By the end of the nineteenth century, traditional Native American life was no longer possible, and many of the state’s Native Americans turned to the ranches and towns for jobs. Some adapted ancient arts to new markets. Washoe basket-maker Dat-so-la-lee is a prime example of someone who learned to adapt to the new way of life introduced by the non-Native settlers. She made her living in the first part of the twentieth century selling her baskets to people who viewed them as pieces of art.

Passing Through

People have been crossing Nevada, on their way to somewhere else, for decades. Tracing the origins of Interstate 80 demonstrates the history of our roadways. The path that Interstate 80 takes traces the journey that the Washoe used when they moved into the mountains from the north during the summer season. It was the route into the Sierra Nevada used by John C. Frémont when he became the first Euroamerican to see Lake Tahoe, and it became the wagon road that the Donner Party took in its attempt to get to California. The Central Pacific Railroad was built as part of the transcontinental railroad along this route, and U.S. highway 40, which was the Victory Highway, followed that same path first laid by the Washoe, and which is now Interstate 80.

Until the twentieth century, for the most part, when people passed through Nevada they walked. After 1850, Euroamericans started to cross Nevada using horses, mules, and oxen to haul wagons. Freight and stage coach lines grew up in the 1860s to service the many mining camps, and in 1867 the Central Pacific Railroad laid the first track, from the Sierra Nevada into the Truckee Meadows, on the way to making its transcontinental link with the Union Pacific in Promontory Point, Utah in 1896.

By the 1880s, bicycling was a national craze and the first true highways were laid out to provide safe cycling. New mining camps in Tonopah and Goldfield, shortly after 1900, benefited from a growing number of automobiles, which in turn opened up the tourism market for Nevada after the end of World War II. In the 1920s, the federal government pioneered air mail routes across Nevada.

Riches from the Earth

The Great Basin has been the source of fabulous mineral wealth for hundreds of years. For centuries, Natives mined salt and turquoise. In the nineteenth century, prospectors returning to the East from the Mexican-American war and the first wave of the California Gold Rush found traces of gold in streams on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada. Real excitement began in 1859, when placer miners panning the streams of Gold Canyon in the Virginia Mountains discovered that the blue clay that had been seen as a nuisance was really remarkably rich silver ore. The “Rush to Washoe” brought thousands of ‘49ers flocking to the Comstock Lode camps of Virginia City, Gold Hill, and Silver City, in the renewed hope of finding their fortunes.

Mining brought modern civilization and towns to Nevada. Nevada silver and gold built the stock exchange in San Francisco, helped pay for the Civil War, and fostered statehood for Nevada in 1864. Camps boomed and then went bust all over the state. Then for more than twenty years, there was nothing, and the state almost blew away. In 1902, Tonopah, in central Nevada, suddenly boomed, followed in a few years by Goldfield. About the same time, large-scale copper mining started in White Pine County. Today Nevada is the largest producer of gold in the county, and mining is still a major industry in the Silver State.

Neon Nights

Nevada is known around the world as a place offering fun and instant fortune. The Corbett-Fitzsimmons championship boxing match in 1897 was the first time Nevada attracted national attention for allowing an event that was illegal everywhere else in the country. About the same time, the state’s liberal residency laws (six weeks eventually) began attracting people looking for a speedy divorce, and more often, a quick marriage, laying the foundation for the tourist industry in the process. Gambling was made legal in Nevada in 1931 in order to support tourism and business in the face of the Great Depression.

The Federal Presence

Although Nevada is the seventh largest state in the Union, the federal government owns approximately 87% of the land, making the federal presence central to the development of the Silver State in the twentieth century. Federal water reclamation programs had their start with the Newlands Project in 1902, which took water from the Carson and Truckee rivers to make the desert around Fallon bloom. The fact that the Paiute fishery at Pyramid Lake was hurt in the process has led to the longest-running federal law suit in history, which is still unresolved. The construction of Hoover Dam (1931-1935) brought abundant water and electrical power to Clark County in the south and sparked the transformation of Las Vegas from a division point on the railroad into one of the fastest growing cities in the country.

With World War II came thousands of men and women in the military services, some passing through, and some staying to work in defense industries. Huge military bases sprouted up throughout the state. After the war, the testing of nuclear bombs spurred further growth. Even today, after the testing has ended, Nevada is facing federal pressure to become the storehouse for the nation’s nuclear waste.

Nevada Historical Society

Guided School Tours

Reservation Request

Please fill out a separate form for each program requested

Contact Name _______________________________________________________________

School & Address ____________________________________________________________

Contact Phone # _________________ E-mail Address ___________________________

Grade level(s) ___________________ Number of Students on Tour _______________

I would like to schedule a one-hour tour:

Day and Time Requested:

1st choice ______________________________________

2nd choice ______________________________________

General tour policies:

• At least two weeks notice is required for guided tours.

• Guided tours are subject to the availability of volunteers and staff. If guides are not available, tours may be re-scheduled or self-guided.

• Tours are limited to one class of approximately 40 students. Special arrangements may be made for larger groups with advanced notice.

• If your group will be delayed or you need to cancel a tour, please call the Historical Society at 775-688-1191, ext 223.

• Teachers and adult chaperones are responsible for the discipline of the group. Please review “Museum Manners” with your students prior to your visit.

Four ways to submit this form:

Fax to 775-688-2917

2) Call 775-688-1191, ext. 223

3) E-mail mrharmon@clan.lib.nv.us

4) On-line at

II. self-guided museum tours for organized school groups

Free Admission for students, teachers, and adult chaperones

Monday – Friday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Make a reservation

Self-guided tours are limited to 60 students.

Call the Museum at (775) 688-1191, ext. 223 to schedule a self-guided tour.

Divide the class into groups of 10 students

Small groups facilitate learning and maintain discipline.

One adult escort for every 10 students is required

Adult escorts are responsible for supervising their groups in accordance with safety and security guidelines as well as helping students with their assignments.

Historical Society Scavenger Hunt

Scavenger hunts are available for grades 2 and 3, and 4 to 6. Scavenger hunts are a fun way to facilitate learning and observation. Ask for the scavenger hunt forms when you make your reservation.

Museum Manners

Please share “Museum Manners” with your class before your visit.

Enjoy your visit to the Nevada Historical Society!

Nevada Historical Society

Department of Education

1650 N. Virginia Street

Reno, NV 89503

775-688-1191, ext. 223

Fax 775-688-2917

mrharmon@clan.lib.nv.us

Nevada Historical Society

Self-guided Tours

Reservation Request

Please fill out a separate form for each program requested

Contact Name _______________________________________________________________

School & Address ____________________________________________________________

Contact Phone # _________________ E-mail Address ___________________________

Grade level(s) ___________________ Number of Students on Tour ______________

I would like to schedule a self-guided tour:

Day and Time Requested:

1st choice ______________________________________

2nd choice ______________________________________

I would like to request ________ scavenger hunts.

General tour policies:

• Self-guided tours are limited to one class of approximately 60 students. Special arrangements may be made for larger groups with advanced notice.

• Allow one adult escort for every 10 students.

• Teachers and adult chaperones are responsible for the discipline of the group. Please review “Museum Manners” with your students prior to your visit.

Four ways to submit this form:

Fax to 775-688-2917

2) Call 775-688-1191, ext. 223

3) E-mail mrharmon@clan.lib.nv.us

4) On-line at

III. history on wheels: outreach programs

The NHS Docent Council offers a traveling trunk program called History on Wheels. This educational program is available free of charge and is brought into the classroom by a docent who presents a one-hour program using slides, photographs, objects, and other support material.

There are five History on Wheels programs available:

• Great Basin Native Americans

• Immigrants

• Mountain Men and Fur Trappers

• Mining and Miners

• Children in Early Nevada

• Early Nevada Schools (for older students)

To make arrangements for a History on Wheels presentation, please fill out a reservation form and fax it to the Historical Society at 775-688-2917 or call 688-1191, ext. 223. To make a reservation on-line go to: , click on “division of museums and history,” then “Nevada Historical Society, Reno.”

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Nevada Historical Society

History on Wheels: Outreach Program

Reservation Request

Please fill out a separate form for each program requested

Contact Name ________________________________________________________

School & Address _____________________________________________________

Contact Phone # _____________ E-mail Address ________________________

Grade level(s) __________________ Number of Students __________________

I would like to schedule:

_____ Great Basin Native Americans

_____ Immigrants

_____ Mountain Men and Fur Trappers

_____ Mining and Miners

_____ Children in Early Nevada

_____ Early Nevada Schools (suited to the higher grades)

Day and time requested:

1st choice ______________________________________

2nd choice ______________________________________

Four ways to submit this form:

1) Fax to 775-688-2917

2) Call 775-688-1191, ext. 223

3) E-mail mrharmon@clan.lib.nv.us

4) On-line at

IV. a sampling of resources for students and teachers

at the nevada historical society museum store

Pioneer Life and Early Nevada

Who Settled the West, by Bobbie Kalman

Early Stores and Markets, by Bobbie Kalman

Early Settler Children, by Bobbie Kalman

Life of a Miner, by Bobbie Kalman

Early Family Home, by Bobbie Kalman

The Railroad, by Bobbie Kalman

Colonial Crafts, by Bobbie Kalman

The General Store, by Bobbie Kalman

The Kitchen, by Bobbie Kalman

Life on the Trail, by Bobbie Kalman

Wagon Train, by Bobbie Kalman

Life on the Ranch, by Bobbie Kalman

Women of the West, by Bobbie Kalman

Homes of the West, by Bobbie Kalman

Bandannas Chaps & Ten Gallon Hats, by Bobbie Kalman

Classroom Games, by Bobbie Kalman and Heather Levigne

Schoolyard Games, by Bobbie Kalman and Heather Levigne

Pioneer Recipes, by Bobbie Kalman and Lynda Hale

Travel in the Early Days, by Bobbie Kalman and Kate Calder

How Would You Survive in the American West, by Jacqueline Marley

This is the Place: The Story of the Mormon Trail, by William E. & Jan C. Hill

Pioneer Nevada, The Best of Virginia City Tales, by Harolds Club of Reno

I am a Child of the West, by Gayle Moxley Pyle

Pony Bob’s Daring Ride, A Pony Express Adventure, by Joe Bensen

Camels in Nevada, by Douglas McDonald

The Magic Boots, by Scott Emerson and Howard Post

Snowbound: The Tragic Story of the Donner Party, by David Lavender

Patty Reed’s Doll: The Story of the Donner Party, by Rachel K. Laurgaard

Stories of Young Pioneers in Their Own Words, by Violet T. Kimball

A Coloring Book of Nevada, by the Nevada Historical Society

Nevada History Coloring Book: The First Settlers, by Nancy C. Miluck

Nevada History Coloring Book: The 20th Century, by Nancy C. Miluck

Westward Bound Jigsaw Puzzle, by William Henry Jackson

Native Americans

Celebrating the Powwow, by Bobbie Kalman

How Would You Survive as an American Indian, by Scott Steedman

Keepers of Night: Native American Stories & Nocturnal Activities for Children, by Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac

Keepers of the Animal: Native American Stories & Wildlife Activities for Children , by Michael J. Caduto & Joseph Bruchac

Keepers of Life: Discovering Plants through Native American Stories & Earth Activities for Children, by Michael J. Caduto & Joseph Bruchac

Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories & Environmental Activities for Children, by Michael J. Caduto & Joseph Bruchac

Little Herder in Autumn, by Ann Nolan Clark Nevada History Coloring Book: Nevada’s Native Americans, by Nancy C. Miluck

American Indian Ways, A Carnegie Activity Book

Natural History

Natural Treasures; a Field Guide for Kids, by Elizabeth Biesiot

In the Desert, by Ann Cooper

Kids in the Wild: A Family Guide to Outdoor Recreation, by Ross & Gladfelter

North American Wild Sheep, by Tillett & Chapman

Squirrels, A Wildlife Handbook, by Kim Long

Discovering Sierra Mammals, by Russell Grater

Woodkits: Dolphin Family, Mammoth, African Elephant

Nevada Wildlife Viewing Guide, by Jeanne L. Clark

Mammal Tracking in North America, by James Halfpenny

V. research opportunities in the library and collections

Historians, genealogists, teachers, students, and visitors interested in delving into the past are welcome to conduct research at the Nevada Historical Society. Materials available to the public include books, newspapers and periodicals, files of newspaper clippings and other print items, maps, government documents, subject files, ephemera, sound recordings, the manuscript collections of diverse individuals and organizations, and more than 300,000 photographs, films, and video tapes.

The Research Library is open to the public from 12 to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. Finding aids, collection descriptions, indexes, and catalogues are available for the various collections; staff members are on hand to answer questions and to help you find materials. Photocopying of most documents is available for $0.25 per page. We reserve the right to restrict photocopying of vintage photographs as latent damage can occur. However, reproductions of photographs from the collection may be purchased.

Library Holdings

Printed Materials

• Books

• Magazines, journals, and other periodicals

• Directories (for the state, communities)

• Telephone books

• Government Documents

• Newspapers (most on microfilm)

Reference Files

• Topical clipping and print files

• Indexes (Territorial Enterprise and other newspapers; mortuary death records (Reno and Carson City); newspaper obituaries (chiefly Reno newspapers); Nevada Magazine (to 1980)

• Guides/lists (school teachers to 1926; state and county government officials and candidates; municipal government officials and candidates; residents of Nevada in 1890-91 and 1894-95; University of Nevada faculty and staff (to 1970); cemetery censuses)

• Historic sites files (Reno/Washoe County and Carson City)

• Card Information File (misc. date compiled since c. 1910)

Map Collections

• General Collection, arranged by date

• U.S. Geological Survey topographic maps for Nevada (current and old series)

• Nevada highway maps

• U.S. bureau of Land Management grazing maps for Nevada

• Sanborn Fire insurance maps (various Nevada communities)

Architectural Drawings

Sound Recordings

• Taped interviews, commercial recordings (tapes, phonograph records, CDs)

Films/Video Tapes

• Commercial VHS tapes, CDs, (in addition to home movies and home video recordings in photograph and manuscript collections)

Genealogical Resources

• U.S. Census reports (lists of individuals), 1850-1920 (except 1890)

• State census reports (1875, early 1860s for some counties)

• Cemetery census compilations (DAR records; Nona Parkin papers, etc.)

• Burial records (mostly Comstock)

• Mortuary records (Reno, Carson City)

• Obituary lists (newspapers, DAR compilations, etc.)

• Card Information File

• Payroll records of various companies (in manuscript collections)

• Newspaper indexes

• Episcopal Church of Nevada archives

• Fraternal organization records

Manuscript Collection

The Nevada Historical Society manuscript holdings, which focus on Nevada and the West, consist of over 2,700 collections, ranging in size from a single folder to several hundred cubic feet. The bulk of the materials date from the 1850s to the present. Included are personal papers, topical collections, records of businesses, churches, local governments, and schools, as well as those of civic, educational, charitable, professional, labor, and social organizations. All collections have brief guide descriptions; individual registers or indexes are available for the larger collections.

Among the major collections are the papers of:

• U.S. Senator William M. Stewart

• U. S. Senator Patrick A. McCarran

• George Wingfield

• Virginia & Gold Hill Water Co.

• Malone Engineers

• Truckee-Carson Irrigation District

• Nevada Nurses Association

• Nevada Federation of Womens Clubs

• Works Progress Administration, Nevada

• Manhattan Silver Mining Co.

• Harold’s Club

• AFL-CIO, Nevada

• Women’s Christian Temperance Union, Nevada

• Knights of Pythias, Nevada

• Gold Hill Miner’s Union

• Episcopal Church of Nevada

• Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada

• A Common Thread (statewide quilt study project)

• Russell McDonald (index to biographical files for legislators, judges, attorneys)

• Jeanne E. Wier

• John T. Reid

• Nevada Emigrant Trail Marking Committee

• U.S. Senator Tasker L. Oddie

• Eureka & Palisade Railroad

• Yellow Jacket Silver Mining Company

• Twentieth Century Club

• United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local 971

Photography Collection

The Nevada Historical Society has approximately 300,000 photographs dating from 1862 to the present. The collections cover the entire state, although our greatest strength is from Nye County north. There are unpublished catalogs from each county, as well as topical catalogs for such subjects as Lake Tahoe, transportation, the military, and industry.

The collection is exceptionally strong for mining and mining town photographs, from nineteenth-century Virginia City to the early twentieth-century boom towns such as Goldfield, Tonopah, and Rawhide, as well as a host of flamboyant but short-lived camps such as Dutch Creek, Weepah, and Wahmonie. There are also more than 1,000 photographs of Nevada’s Native Americans and more than 9,000 photographs of early Reno. Boxing, ranching, early saloons, gambling and casinos, Hoover Dam, the Carson Mint, atomic testing, early parades, freight wagons, stage coaches, railroading, and ghost towns can be mentioned as additional areas of significant coverage.

In addition to the general collection, there are individual collections representing single photographers or collectors.

Individual Photograph Collections (partial list)

Written lists of the photographs in these collections can be provided to researchers and publishers. Reference photocopies are available only where noted.

• Acree, Bert. Early Austin and Reese River Valley (including purchased photographs by Crockwell, etc.). Subjects include views of Austin, street scenes, businesses, family, ranch and farm scenes, and care de visite, and cabinet card portraits.

• Cobb, Neal. Extensive collection focusing on Reno and vicinity in the 1940s and 50s, from the files of the Modern Photo Agency. Includes Harolds Club, early radio and television, street scenes, the Squaw Valley Olympic teams (posed group shots), and many other subjects.

• Chan, Loren B. Scenes of Nevada towns, including Ely, Gardnerville, Mesquite, Las Vegas, Virginia City, the 1960s.

• Curtis, Roy. Location shots of businesses and organizations in and around Reno by one of Reno’s best commercial photographers of the 1920s. Reprints that can be photocopied are available.

• Davis, Herman. Nevada mining in the 1890s and early twentieth century, excellent photographs of mines and mills by a well-known mining engineer. Multiple albums.

• Elliott, Chester H. and Madge. Glass plates and reprints of Reno and vicinity at the turn of the century, includes railroads, the Hobart Lumber Mills, and Lake Tahoe. Reprints can be photocopied.

• Gallagher, C.D. This collection by Ely commercial photographer includes part of his personal collection, miscellaneous studio portraits, and unprinted panoramic negatives of the Ruth Copper Pit.

• Holt, A.E. A photo album of the Bullfrog Mining District when it was active in the early 1900s.

• Jukes, F. Ely area businesses in the 1920s by the town’s studio photographer. Damaged nitrate negatives and current reprints. Reprints can be photocopied.

• Mack, Ernie. Extensive documentary series on Nevada rodeos from the 1940s through the 1960s.

• McDonald, Joe. Unprinted negatives by a well-known photographer for the Nevada State Journal.

• Oakes Collection. An album of photographs depicting the construction of Boulder Dam.

• Orr, Susan. Nevada folk art survey, 1982-83. Black and white and color prints (8x10) of Nevada fold artists and their work, including Rolling Thunder.

• Smith, E.W. T onopah commercial photographer in the early 1900s. Collection covers Tonopah’s mines, parades, buildings, homes, and businesses, also Jim Butler, the town’s founder, and the Lunas Clava women’s cub. Also lesser coverage of surrounding towns such as Ellendale and Goldfield. 6x8 glass plates and prints.

• Smith, James. Unprinted 11x14 glass plates. Bird’s eye views of towns, highways, bridges, and landscapes in the 1920s.

• Whitburn, F.W. “Kodak” photographs of Austin area ranching and farming, probably the Reese River Valley. Good saloon shots (unidentified) from the 1890s, and ranch bunkhouse interiors.

• Winston, William B. Personal photographic album of Rawhide and Goldfield in the early twentieth century.

Photographic Reproduction

• Please allow two (2) weeks for processing and delivery of orders

• An additional fee will be added to all Rush Orders. Rush Orders must be cleared through the Photo Department before an order can be placed

• Foam core mounting or gator board is available by quote.

• Credit is not extended. All orders must be paid in advance.

• NHS members receive a 10% discount.

• Please call the photo curator at 775-688-1190, ext. 228 for current reproduction charges.

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