Isaac Lawrence Requa papers

A collection of 381 items from 1819 to 1935, which consists of letters, documents, manuscripts, one scrapbook, and two photographs related to the personal life, professional activities and family of Isaac Lawrence Requa. There is personal correspondence between Requa and his family from 1877 to 1901, and materials about mining in Virginia City, Nevada. The collection also contains vouchers of the Chollar-Norcross-Savage Shaft Company and the Chollar Potosi Mining Company from 1876 to 1879. There are also letters and a few manuscripts by Mark Lawrence Requa, including his memoirs from January 10, 1918 to June 30, 1919 while director of the Oil Division of the United States Fuel Administration.