Records, 1908-1990, 1961-1990.

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Records, 1908-1990, 1961-1990.

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Records documenting Davis' career including his research papers (published and unpublished), research project files, files on professional organizations in which he was active, class papers from geology courses taught at the University of Nevada, and correspondence with colleagues in his profession and at the Desert Research Institute. Personal papers include correspondence with his father about the activities of E. Mott Davis, Beth Ogden Davis, and the University of Texas, Austin, Anthropology Department; correspondence from friends with frequent mention of the effects of drug use; statements and clippings related to Davis' involvement in the anti-Vietnam War movement and the Students for a Democratic Society organization; legal papers which reveal much about changing attitudes toward the institution of marriage in the 1970s; genealogical materials about the Ogden Family; pilots logs; files for Silver City, Nevada, civic organizations; and personal journals and calendars.

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University of Nevada, Reno, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 7427424

University of Nevada, Reno, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center

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Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)

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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is a radical student group that descended from the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS) which was founded in 1905. The ISS changed its name in 1921 to the League for Industrial Democracy (LID), a social-democratic educational and organizational group. Its student branch, the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID), merged with National Student League in 1935 to form American Student Union (ASU) but soon split over ASUs alleged communist affiliati...

Davis, Jonathan O. (Jonathan Ogden)

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Nevada geoarchaeologist and research professor of geology at the Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nev.; Davis' area of expertise was Quaternary tephrachronology. Davis was born on April 15, 1948 and died Dec. 14, 1990. His father, E. Mott Davis was head of the radiocarbin dating laboratory at the University of Texas, Austin; his mother was Beth Ogden Davis. From the description of Records, 1908-1990, 1961-1990. (University of Nevada, Reno). WorldCat record id: 40540249 ...

Ogden family.

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Davis, Beth Ogden.

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University of Texas at Austin. Anthropology Dept.

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University of Nevada System. Desert Research Institute

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Davis, E. Mott

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