Papers, 1909-1970 (bulk 1909-1919, 1933-1953).

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Papers, 1909-1970 (bulk 1909-1919, 1933-1953).

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Personal papers, photographs, and memorabilia including albums of photographs (1909-1919) depicting various Nevada mines and mining camps, diary (1937), scrapbook of press clippings (1935-1953), memoirs titled "Memoirs Of Alfred Merritt Smith ... 1951" and "Some Early University Of Nevada Reminiscences" (1949), printed materials and letters relating to the dedication of the Alfred Merritt Smith Water Treatment Facility at Lake Mead in 1970, and a small amount of personal correspondence of Smith, his daughter Jean Smith Dobey, and his son Thor M. Smith.

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Nevada State Historical Society

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Alfred Merritt Smith Water Treatment Facility

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Smith, Thor M. (Thor Merritt), 1906-1980

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Colonel, United States Army Air Forces; press officer to General Dwight D. Eisenhower. From the description of Thor M. Smith papers, 1942-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872059 Thor Merritt Smith (1906-1980) was born in Reno, Nevada, and was a 1927 graduate from the University of Nevada. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army as Chief of U.S. Press Policy Section and Public Relations Representative at the SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary For...

University of Nevada

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College Bowl began in 1953 as a radio program under sponsorship of the General Electric Company, moving to television in 1959. Each week two collegiate undergraduate teams would compete to be the first to correctly answer a variety of scholarly questions. The winner would return the following week, and the school would receive a General Electric scholarship grant. In 1963, the University of Nevada was invited to compete. Traveling to New York City with team coach Harold Kirkpatrick, the Nevada t...

Smith, Alfred Merritt.

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Mining engineer; Nevada state engineer (1935-1951); and member of the Colorado River Commission of Nevada (1935-1950); b. 1876; d. 1968; also known as Tom Smith. From the description of Papers, 1909-1970 (bulk 1909-1919, 1933-1953). (Nevada State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 70973914 ...

Dobey, Jean Smith

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