Nan Doughty Collection. [1907-1987]

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Nan Doughty Collection. [1907-1987]

The Correspondence series contains letters written by many members of Doughty's family. The Family papers series contains news clippings, school papers, diaries, deeds, stock certificates, and manuscript drafts. Much of the material in both series pertains to early mining in Nevada and the southwest.

67 boxes (26 linear ft.)

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Nevada Women's Archives.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ph2htx (corporateBody)

Doughty, Nanelia, 1907-1987.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jw9fb1 (person)

Nanelia Siegfriedt Doughty was born in 1907 in Seattle, Washington and received her early schooling there. Following her high school graduation she and her mother moved to Johannesburg, California during the Rand district mining boom. Doughty then attended Stanford University, graduating in 1930. She was an accomplished artist with her wood cuts of the Olympic (WA) peninsula attracting the attention of both artists and historians. In 1944 she married Frank Doughty. The couple divorced in 1957 an...