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The Marsh Arabs
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MARSH, William A
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Collection consists mainly of correspondence from the period 1910-14, beginning when Oddie initiated his campaign for governor and ending when he was about to terminate his administration. The correspondence is arranged in 19 boxes in alphabetical order by author. There are also 6 boxes and 4 rolls of Nevada State papers, almost entirely copies of legislative bills for the year 1873, and a small number of documents from other years. Subjects include: mining, politics, and government in Nevada (including divorce laws), women's rights, the financial panic of 1907, the Progressive party, and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915.
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Times Mirror Co. - 1938 - 1951
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23 items: annual reports entitled "Fifty-second Annual Report of The Times Mirror Company - Year ended December 31, 1938," through "Sixty-fifth Annual Report of The Times Mirror Company - Year ended December 31, 1951," including one to three copies for each year. (Most of these reports are very concise brochures - financial figures cover two pages.) 1944 also includes a report containing data for stockholders, 1949 also includes 2 longer typewritten reports by Norman Chandler, and one of the 1951 copies had notes penciled in.
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MARSH, W A. To Tasker Lowndes Oddie
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Collection consists mainly of correspondence from the period 1910-14, beginning when Oddie initiated his campaign for governor and ending when he was about to terminate his administration. The correspondence is arranged in 19 boxes in alphabetical order by author. There are also 6 boxes and 4 rolls of Nevada State papers, almost entirely copies of legislative bills for the year 1873, and a small number of documents from other years. Subjects include: mining, politics, and government in Nevada (including divorce laws), women's rights, the financial panic of 1907, the Progressive party, and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915.
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Stephen Brooks letter to Henry Brooks
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In this letter to his brother Henry, Stephen Brooks writes of debts incurred while opening a store in San Francisco. He misses the comforts of life and the life of society, and plans to stay in California for one year. Letterhead is an image of "View of San Francisco, February 1850."
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Projected Profits - Norman Chandler Christmas speech
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Approx. 10 items: 3-pp. "The Times-Mirror Company Treasurer's Report of Financial and Operational Highlights - Year 1951" ; drafts and a duplicate of above report ; material related to "financial and operational highlights," some of it being handwritten notes.
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