Papers, 1833-1994. [1890-1994]

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Papers, 1833-1994. [1890-1994]

Material in this collection includes school report cards, detailed diaries from 1918-1964, 1968, and 1973, personal correspondence family papers, and two original manuscripts. The collection also contains several publications pertaining to her and her husband's interests, craft materials, drawing tools, photocopies of dried flowers, watercolor paintings, and pencil sketches.

13 boxes (8 linear ft.)

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Nevada Women's Archives.

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Janish, Carl.

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Janish, Jeanne R.

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Jeanne Russell Janish was born in Iowa to a father who was a Presbyterian minister and a mother who was a Vassar College graduate. Janish also graduated from Vassar in 1924 with a major in Latin and went on to Stanford University where she received her Master's degree in Geology in 1926. In 1929 Janish traveled to China and worked for her cousin's rug company in Peking. There she met and married her husband, Carl Janish. They returned to the United States in 1934 where Carl worked as an engineer...