NHS MS Finding Aids & Collection Lists
NHS MS Finding Aids
A finding aid is a detailed description of an archival collection. It enables you to find a letter, diary, or other document involving a specific person—items that may be part of a collection you didn’t know about or may not have thought to search.
Manuscript materials in the collection include correspondence, diaries, financial records, reports, membership rosters, bylaws, minutes, subject files, and legal papers that document an individual’s life or career; environmental, cultural, social, and fraternal organizations; and businesses.
To search the finding aids, use Control + F after the document is open.
NHS MS Collections List
General Collection Lists
NHS Print Collection Diaries-Trails List
NHS MS Finding aids:
MSNC511 WCTU Women’s Christian Temperance Union
MSNC1094 Frey Family Collection
MSNC863 Eureka County District Attorneys Office
MSNC 598 Alvin McLain Collection
MSNC278 Nevada WPA Works Progress Administration
MSNC702 Steamboat Springs Collections
MSNC1076 Austin International Hotel Ledger
MSNC1067_World War II Nevada Military Clippings
MSNC1051 Churchill County Museum Historic Documents
MSNC924 Model A Ford Club Sagebrush Chapter
MSNC 968 Christy Mill and Mining Company Ledger
- great resource on Washoe County Schools history
NHS MS Finding aids:
MSNC13 Senator Patrick McCarran
MSNC679 Myrtle Tate Myles Papers
MSNC710 Elko Lumber Company Records
MSNC1209 David and Linda Brown Family
MSNC476 NORA Nevada Outdoor Recreation Association
- great BLM Lands resource, Nevada, the West
- thousands of slide photographs
MSNC625_NARP Nevada Artist Research Project (1-28 boxes)
- the collection consists of 55 boxes
- great Nevada artist resource, past and present
- great Nevada resource on many topics
MSNC480 TCID Truckee Carson Irrigation District
MSNC1028 Phillip Jacobs Family Papers
MSNC166 Twentieth Century Club
MSNC1060 Lake House Guest Book
MSNC1034 Richard Acton Collection
MSNC1043 Trigueiro Family Papers
MSNC1055 Nevada State Penitentiary Inmates Photos
MSNC1053 San Francisco County Documents
MSNC1100 YMCA Young Men’s Christian Assoc
MSNC 1151 Trails West Finding Aid
MSNC409 Nevada Nursing Association
MSNC 591 Russell McDonald Collection
MSNC686 Fredrick Bennett Balzar Papers
MSNC676 Copper Canyon Mining Company Collection
NHS MS Finding aids:
MSNC732 Richard Guy Walton Collection
NHS would like to thank Anthony Shafton for being inspired to learn about Richard Guy Walton and cataloging his collection.
MSNC732 Walton Catalog
MSNC732 Select Tape Transcripts
A new book on the art and writings of Richard Guy Walton called A Nevada Life by Anthony Shafton. The book will be available, April 2021.
A Nevada Life, Index
A Nevada Life, Notes
Book Summary
Richard Guy Walton (1914–2005) is the ‘Grand Old Man’ of abstract art in Nevada. Less well known is that this gifted painter was also a prolific author. In telling his colorful life story and exploring his creative output, A Nevada Life illuminates Nevada’s twentieth century cultural history, with themes touching the state’s Basque heritage, connections with Hollywood, and much more.
Author Biography
Anthony Shafton was born in Chicago, did his undergraduate work at Harvard and has a Master’s degree from Stanford’s Creative Writing program. A Nevada Life is his fifth nonfiction book, on such diverse topics as human evolution, dream psychology, and African American culture. His last book was The Nevada They Knew: Robert Caples and Walter Van Tilburg Clark, where Walton makes a cameo appearance. Shafton has also published a novel. In 2012 he moved permanently to Nevada, the place he has regarded as the center of his world for over half a century.
