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Archives related to: Mackay, John W, 1831-1902
| title | Mackay, Fair, Flood, and O'Brien records, 1862-1890 | repository | Nevada State Historical Society |
| description | Business records, legal documents, and correspondence including operational records, payrolls, and insurance policies from the Gould & Curry Silver Mining Company, Best and Belcher Mining Company, Ophir Silver Mining Company, Mexican Gold and Silver Mining Company, Consolidated Virginia Mining Company, Consolidated California and Virginia Mining Company, Hale and Norcross Consolidated Mines Company, and Pacific Mill and Mining company and the various ore mills it operated. Bio/History: Also known as the "Bonanza Firm"; business partnership of John W. Mackay (1831-1902), James G. Fair (1831-1894), James C. Flood (1826-1889), and William S. O'Brien (1826-1878), which owned the most important mines and mills and supporting business enterprises, on Nevada's Comstock Lode during the 1870s and 1880s. |
| extent | 2 linear ft. |
| formats | Business Papers Legal Papers Correspondence Financial Records |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| finding aid | Finding aid in the repository. |
| acquisition information | Gift of A.J. ("Bart") Hood, 1976. Transfer from Nevada State Museum, 1983, 1985. Gift of Karen L. Benna and Lynn Jackson, 1997. Gift of Roy Ohl family, 1996. Purchase from Vigilante Rare Documents, 2002. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:56 |
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| title | Mackay, Fair and Company Records, 1871-1887. | repository | University of Nevada, Reno |
| description | Contains letterpress copybooks of outgoing correspondence and one volume of quicksilver cash receipts and disbursements. Bio/History: One of the largest silver producing companies in the Comstock Lode, Nevada, owned by John W. Mackay and James G. Fair. |
| extent | 5 v. |
| formats | Correspondence Financial Records |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | http://innopac.library.unr.edu/record=b1321078 |
| record source | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:57 |
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| title | Denis J. Mahoney papers, 1937-ca. 1940. | repository | Nevada State Historical Society |
| description | Letter (16 June 1940), from Friedmans' booksellers to Mahoney in his capacity as librarian of the Virginia City, Nev., library; historical research notes, possibly for Nevada history articles Mahoney wrote for the WPA's writers' project; article, "Senator John P. Jones: Personal Recollections of Him and His Kindred," (ca. 1938), in which Mahoney also relates some events of his own life; and a book-length ms. biography (ca. 1940), of Comstock Lode "Bonanza King" John W. Mackay. Bio/History: Librarian and writer for the Works Progess Administration (WPA); of Virginia City, Nev. |
| extent | .1 linear ft. |
| formats | Research Files Notes Writings |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| finding aid | Finding aid in the repository |
| acquisition information | Manuscript biography of John W. Mackay was removed from the Effie Mona Mack papers at the Nevada Historical Society in 1982 |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:57 |
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| title | Grant Horace Smith collection of manuscripts and notes chiefly concerning the Comstock Lode, 1859-1936. | repository | University of California, Berkeley |
| description | Material gathered in preparation for books on Mark Twain, John W. Mackay and the Comstock Lode. A collection of Shakespeareana and a few miscellaneous essays included. The first four cartons contain papers of general historical interest, as follows: 1. Looseleaf notebooks concerning the Comstock, including photostats of contemporary newspaper items, chronologically arranged, 1853-ca. 1893; other notes on census, directories, society, roads, stocks, milling, theaters, Adolph Sutro, etc.; historical sketches; accounts of individual mines; five miscellaneous articles; part of the original draft of Smith's Ms. on Comstock history; maps and pictures. 2. Material on John W. Mackay and the Comstock story, in 11 looseleaf notebooks, a scrapbook, and an envelope of loose clippings (used in part in his History of the Comstock Lode [Reno, 1943]). Includes notes on Mackay's interests in the Nevada Bank, Water Company, Pacific Cable Company, and Postal Telegraph. 3. Material on Mark Twain in Nevada. Includes Smith's completed manuscript, with pictures; miscellaneous Twain articles; and notes, clippings, and photostats. (Cont.) 4. Miscellaneous notes on early Nevada and California, relating to the Comstock, Twain, and Mackay; includes three file cases of correspondence. |
| extent | 6 cartons. |
| formats | Subject Files Notebooks Legal Papers Printed Materials |
| access | Advance notice required for use. |
| finding aid | Index and guide to arrangement prepared by his son, Grant H. Smith, Jr. Nov. 1953, available in the repository. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:58 |
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| title | Ophir Silver Mining Company records, 1875-1919 | repository | Nevada State Historical Society |
| description | Payroll (1875-1878); certification (18 Dec. 1896), of the election of directors and officers of the company; checks; and financial documents signed by superintendents James G. Fair, John W. Mackay, Joseph R. Ryan, Gilbert McMillan Ross, and T.F. McCormick. Historical Note Mining company of Virginia City, Nev. |
| extent | .1 linear ft. |
| formats | Financial Records |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| finding aid | Finding aid in the repository. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:58 |
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| title | Checks signed by James G. Fair and J.W. Mackay: Virginia City, Nevada : DS, 1869-1870. | repository | University of California, Berkeley |
| description | Checks signed by James G. Fair and J.W. Mackay: Virginia City, Nevada : DS, 1869-1870. |
| extent | 2 pieces. |
| formats | Financial Records |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| finding aid | A Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Bancroft Library |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:58 |
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| title | Ormsby House records, 1877-1884 | repository | Nevada State Historical Society |
| description | Guest registers (1877; 1883-1884), from the prominent Carson City, Nev., hotel. Among the 1877 guests noted are Mr. and Mrs. Tom Thumb (Charles S. and Lavinia Warren Stratton), John W. Mackay, James G. Fair, Robert G. Ingersoll, and Samuel J. Tilden. Notes: Hotel in Carson City, Nev.; built in 1860; hotel lasted until the early 1900s and later demolished. |
| extent | 1 linear ft. |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:58 |
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| title | Dan De Quille papers, [ca. 1860-1914]. | repository | University of California, Berkeley |
| description | Letters concerning the Territorial Enterprise, Mark Twain, and the writing of his book on the Big Bonanza ; manuscripts of sketches written for newspapers and magazines; clippings; notes and notebooks; a few papers of other members of his family. The correspondence consists of a letter to his brother- in-law, Dr. J.M. Benjamin, Omega, California, 1860; 18 to his sister Lou (Mrs. Benjamin), 1874-1885; one by his daughter Mell to Mrs. Benjamin, 1878; and 37 letters received, 1875-1897; from Hiram C. Clark, 1878; Samuel Clemens ("Mark Twain") (3), 1864-1875; E.D. Cope, 1880; Amos J. Cummings (2), 1885-1886; Wells Drury, 1897; James G. Fair, 1875; L.W. Ferris, 1875; Henry J. Ford (2), 1887; Joseph Wasson, 1880; John Greenleaf Whittier, 1897; and B.B. Wiley (1887). With the Twain letters is a first draft of Twain's letter to W.K. Cutler, Virginia, May 28, 1864, offering to accept a challenge to a duel, and the cover of Twain's wedding announcement, with remarks to "Dan." Accompanying the correspondence are drafts of five letters written by his daughter, Lura G. Wright, from Newport, Oregon, ca. 1914-1915, in connection with proposals of George Wharton James to publish Dan DeQuille's sketches, a letter from her cousin "Harry," and from Edward E. Hale, Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1901, and biographical sketch of Wright. Miscellaneous family papers include four Civil War diaries written by Wright's brother, John M. Wright (1836-1918), while serving as a private in the Second Iowa Cavalry, December 9, 1861-September 23, 1864. He campaigned in Missouri, Tennessee, and Mississippi, fought at Corinth, and engaged in many skirmishes against Nathan Bedford Forrest. With the diaries are his honorable discharge, Davenport, Iowa, October 3, 1864; a deed to a lot at Newport, Oregon, 1910; and a deed to a cemetery plot at Newport 1914. Another diary, by Mrs. Benjamin, July 28-September 1, 1879, and July 29-August 5, 1880, describes vacation trips to the Eastern states and Minnesota from West Liberty, Iowa. |
| extent | 3 boxes, 2 cartons. |
| formats | Correspondence Manuscript Notes Notebooks Drawings |
| access | Collection is open for research. |
| record link | http://www.oac.cdlib.org/cgi-bin/oac/berkeley/bancroft/wrightwm |
| record source | http://www.oac.cdlib.org/cgi-bin/oac/berkeley/bancroft/wrightwm |
| finding aid | Finding aid available in Library. Electronic version available on the Internet. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:58 |
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| title | Mackay Mansion guest register, 1956-1962. | repository | Nevada State Historical Society |
| description | Guest register for the Mackay Mansion when it was owned and operated as a museum by C. Jack Duggan. Bio/History: Historic building and museum; built and occupied in 1859 by a young mining superintendent named George Hearst; became an office for the Gould and Curry Mining Company; served in the 1870s as residence for Comstock Lode mining magnate John W. Mackay. |
| extent | .1 linear ft. |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| finding aid | Finding aid in the repository. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:58 |
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| title | Manuscripts and notes chiefly concerning the Comstock Lode, 1859-1936. | repository | University of California, Berkeley |
| description | Material gathered in preparation for books on Mark Twain, John W. Mackay and the Comstock Lode. A collection of Shakespeareana and a few miscellaneous essays included. The first four cartons contain papers of general historical interest, as follows: 1. Looseleaf notebooks concerning the Comstock, including photostats of contemporary newspaper items, chronologically arranged, 1853-ca. 1893; other notes on census, directories, society, roads, stocks, milling, theaters, Adolph Sutro, etc.; historical sketches; accounts of individual mines; five miscellaneous articles; part of the original draft of Smith's Ms. on Comstock history; maps and pictures. 2. Material on John W. Mackay and the Comstock story, in 11 looseleaf notebooks, a scrapbook, and an envelope of loose clippings (used in part in his History of the Comstock Lode [Reno, 1943]). Includes notes on Mackay's interests in the Nevada Bank, Water Company, Pacific Cable Company, and Postal Telegraph. 3. Material on Mark Twain in Nevada. Includes Smith's completed manuscript, with pictures; miscellaneous Twain articles; and notes, clippings, and photostats. (cont.) 4. Miscellaneous notes on early Nevada and California, relating to the Comstock, Twain, and Mackay; includes three file cases of correspondence. |
| extent | 7 cartons. |
| formats | Manuscript |
| access | Collection is open for research. |
| record link | http://www.oac.cdlib.org/cgi-bin/oac/berkeley/bancroft/smithgh |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| finding aid | Finding aid available in Library. Electronic version available on the Internet |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:58 |
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| title | History of the Comstock Lode, 1943 | repository | University of California, Berkeley |
| description | Included are research notes, correspondence, production tables, and clippings either about Smith's Comstock book or used by Smith to write his book. Subjects researched include John W. Mackay, James G. Fair, business as well as technical aspects of mining in the Comstock Lode, details about individual mines, lists of production figures for the mines, data on the cost of production figures for the mines, data on the cost of living, and information on wood and water companies; typescripts of original correspondence and documents are also present. Bio/History: Attorney, teacher and author; resident of Nevada and California. |
| extent | .5 cu. ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Research Files Clippings |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| finding aid | Unarranged |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:58 |
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| title | Pacific Wood, Lumber and Flume Company Records, 1869-1904 | repository | University of Nevada Reno, Nevada 89507 |
| description | Records of operation include titles of real estate and water rights, correspondence between trustees, a time book, account ledgers, articles of incorporation, and agreements with other comapnies. Bio/History: Incorporated in January, 1875 for the purpose of cutting and manufacturing lumber and wood, and fluming; also buying, selling and dealing in real estate and personal property of any description. Founding trustees were John B. Hereford, president and superintendent; James G. Fair, vice president; Timothy B. Stoner, Secretary; and John W. Mackey and Henry B. Penoyer, trustees; the company's office was in Virginia City, Nevada. In 1875 the company constructed a flume from near Huffacker's Mill, north Lake Tahoe, to the junction of Hunters Creek and the Truckee River, four miles west of Reno. In May, 1875 the company agreed to transport timber, lumber and wood for the Virginia & Truckee Railroad. In November, the company name was changed from the Pacific Wood, Lumber and Flume Company of Nevada to the Wood, Lumber and Flume Company of California. |
| extent | 1 cu. ft. |
| formats | Business Papers Legal Papers Correspondence Financial Records Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| finding aid | Unpublished finding aid available in repository. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:58 |
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