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	Title:	LC Subject Headings:	Description:	Interview Date:

1.	An Interview with Alice Mildred Byrne: A Contribution to a Survey of Life and Structures on the Comstock	Virginia City (Nev.) -- History	Alice Mildred Hinch Byrne, a native of Virginia City, Nevada, was born September 28, 1908, into a mining family that could trace its roots back two generations on the Comstock. She has lived in the Virginia...	1984

2.	An Interview with Carroll Dolve: A Contribution to a Survey of Life and Structures on the Comstock	Gladden Family; Virginia City (Nev.) -- History	Carroll Gladding Dolve was born into a mining family in Virginia City, Nevada, in 1908. She grew up in Virginia City and attended the Fourth Ward School, graduating from there in 1925. Mrs. Dolve then...	7/20/1984

3.	An Interview with Jack Flanagan: A Contribution to a Survey of Life and Structures on the Comstock	Virginia City (Nev.) -- History; Comstock Lode (Nev.)	Jack Flanagan, a third generation Comstocker, was born in Virginia City, Nevada, on April 5, 1910. His grandparents, who emigrated to the Comstock at the height of its nineteenth century mining boom, were...	8/1/1984

4.	An Interview with Hugh James Gallagher: A Contribution to a Survey of Life and Structures on the Comstock	Virginia City (Nev.) -- History; Comstock Lode (Nev.)	Hugh James Gallagher's family has resided on the Comstock for more than three generations. He was born in Virginia City in 1920, the grandson of an Irish immigrant who died in an 1880 shaft accident at...	7/18/1984

5.	An Interview with John Giuffra: A Contribution to a Survey of Life and Structures on the Comstock	Virginia City (Nev.) -- History	John Giuffra was born in 1911 in American Flat, a small valley to the south of Virginia City, Nevada. His father was employed by the Virginia & Truckee Railroad. When John was three years old, the Giuffra...	7/16/1984

6.	An Interview with Edward Daniel Gladding: A Contribution to a Survey of Life and Structures on the Comstock	Virginia City (Nev.) -- History	Edward Daniel Gladding, a third generation Nevadan, was born in Virginia City, Nevada, in 1910. He attended the Fourth Ward School and graduated from there in 1930. In 1933 he became the postmaster of...	8/22/1984

7.	An Interview with Marion Gladding: A Contribution to a Survey of Life and Structures on the Comstock	Virginia City (Nev.) -- History; Comstock Lode (Nev.)	Marion Andrea Andreasen Gladding, the daughter of Alice Berry, a native Nevadan, and Frederik Andreasen, a Danish immigrant, was born in Virginia City on April 6, 1910. She attended the First Ward and...	8/24/1984

8.	An Interview with Margaret Marks: A Contribution to a Survey of Life and Structures on the Comstock	Virginia City (Nev.) -- History; Comstock Lode (Nev.)	Margaret Louise Kelley Marks was born in Butte, Montana, on February 5, 1918. During her childhood she traveled with her family from mining camp to mining camp until they finally came to Virginia City,...	8/2/1984

9.	An Interview with William Leslie Marks: A Contribution to a Survey of Life and Structures on the Comstock	Crystal Bar (Virginia City, Nev.); Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Nevada -- Virginia City; Virginia City (Nev.) -- History	William "Bill" Leslie Marks was born on the Comstock at the Ophir house on October 17, 1918. He attended the First and the Fourth Ward schools in Virginia City, and then completed his education at the...	8/2/1984

10.	An Interview with Dorothy Nichols: A Contribution to a Survey of Life and Structures on the Comstock	Virginia City (Nev.) -- History; Comstock Lode (Nev.)	Dorothy Ruth Young Nichols was born in Gold Hill, Nevada, on July 26, 1903, into a family that was "already third generation Virginia City." She spent her childhood on the Comstock and describes in her...	7/10/1984

11.	An Interview with Inez Solaga: A Contribution to a Survey of Life and Structures on the Comstock	Virginia City (Nev.) -- History; Storey County (Nev.) -- History	Inez Solaga, the daughter of Italian immigrant parents, was born in Virginia City in 1916. Her father was employed by the Virginia & Truckee Railroad from 1909 to 1939. Inez Solaga graduated from the Fourth...	7/16/1984

12.	An Interview with David Toll: A Contribution to a Survey of Life and Structures on the Comstock	Jones, John P. (John Percival), 1829-1912; Gorham, Harry Maxim, 1851-; Comstock Lode (Nev.); Virginia City (Nev.) -- History	David Toll was born in Los Angeles in 1936 and moved to Gold Hill in 1958. Although his family has not been in continuous residency on the Comstock, several of his ancestors were early and important personages...	8/19/1984

13.	Comstock Memories: 1920s - 1960s Oral Histories with: Tyrus R. Cobb, Edward S. Colletti, John A. Zalac, and Mildred B. Giuffra	Beebe, Lucius Morris, 1902-1966; Tourism -- Nevada -- Virginia City; Virginia City (Nev.) -- Biography; Virginia City (Nev.) -- History	Following the discovery of the Comstock Lode in 1869, miners and speculators rushed into the previously unsettled area, and three new towns quickly sprang up: Gold Hill, Silver City, and Virginia City....	1984-1985

14.	In the Delta Saloon: Conversations with Residents of Virginia City, Nevada, Recorded in 1949 and 1950	Interviews -- Nevada -- Virginia City; Oral history; Virginia City (Nev.) -- Social life and customs; Virginia City (Nev.) -- Biography	In the autumn of 1989, the University of Nevada Oral History Program was informed that the American Folklife Center, a department of the Library of Congress, held in its collection numerous audio tapes...	1949-1950

15.	Gordon A. Sampson: Memoirs of a Canadian Army Officer and Business Analyst: Manufacturing, Motion Pictures, the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, Financial Affairs of Western Nevada, the Washoe County Fair and Recreation Board	Virginia & Truckee Railroad; Reno (Nev.) -- Biography	Gordon Alexander Sampson, a native of Canada, was born in 1888. He received his early education and training in the schools of Toronto. Following his formal education, he entered business first as a banker...	1967

16.	Alice E. Sauer: Reminiscences of Life in Virginia City and Washoe Valley, Nevada	Teachers -- Nevada -- Biography; Virginia City (Nev.) -- Biography	Alice Edmunds Sauer, a native Nevadan and member of a pioneer western family, was born in 1877. Mrs. Sauer's parents lived and worked in Virginia City, her father as a mining engineer, her mother as a...	1966

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