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Items Held at Searls Historical Library

Original Records (35,411 pages in 954 items) - View All

Articles Of Incorporation (4,275 pages in 657 items)

Death Records (5,305 pages in 16 items)

Drawer Items (3,407 pages in 25 items)

Kitts Property Index (2,874 pages in 9 items)

Naturalization (2,827 pages in 11 items)

Nevada City Minute Books (1,323 pages in 6 items)

Nevada County District Court Cases (8,020 pages in 192 items)

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Original
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Directories and Documents (72,470 pages in 761 items) - View All

Business Card Catalog (5,160 pages in 18 items)

Directories (3,461 pages in 14 items)

Historical Clippings (10,767 pages in 40 items)

Nevada County Addresses (8,958 pages in 25 items)

Nevada County News & Advertisments (9,809 pages in 32 items)

Pamphlets (11,496 pages in 264 items)

Uncategorized Documents (316 pages in 1 item)

Yearbooks (8,987 pages in 108 items)

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Directories
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Documents

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Books and Periodicals (27,136 pages in 391 items) - View All

Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine (2,984 pages in 5 items)

Mining & Scientific Press (15,260 pages in 35 items)

Nevada County Historical Society Bulletins (1,819 pages in 314 items)

Nevada County Historical Society Newsletters (120 pages in 13 items)

Gold Diggers and Camp Followers (979.42 COM)(1982) (436 pages)

1895 Pictorial History of Nevada County, California (979.437 COM (622.342 NEV, PH 1-4))(2000) (194 pages)

Gold Cities by Jim Morley and Doris Foley (1965) (104 pages)

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Books
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Periodicals

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Maps (16,990 images in 124 items) - View All

Flat Maps (1 images in 1 item)

Nevada County Assessor Maps (1,040 images in 19 items)

Nevada County Recorders Maps (15,793 images in 55 items)

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps (110 images in 15 items)

USGS Nevada City Special Folio (1896) (13 images in 4 items)

USGS Original Survey Of Nevada City Townships (4 images in 4 items)

Map of Nevada County, California by J.G. Hartwell (1880) [LoC] (1 images)

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Maps

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Videos (1,484 images in 73 items) - View All

Oral Histories (24 images in 15 items)

Speaker Nights (1,419 images in 37 items)

Documentaries (29 images in 15 items)

Landmark Dedications (2 images in 2 items)

Other Videos (10 images in 4 items)

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Videos

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Indexes (601,276 records in 73 items) - View All
This collection is the combined set of index and former physical card catalog records from both the Searls Historical Library and the Doris Foley Library.