Notes
MS 7
Elton and Madelaine Garrett Papers
inventory
[5 boxes and 1 folder]
Box 1 of 5
folder no.
1. biographical material
2. Boulder City Development Company [includes Assignment
of Lease, 1941]
3. drawings, notes, and poetry [Elton Garrett]
4. Elton Garrett automobile papers [1939-42]
5. Elton and Madelaine Garrett awards and citations [1927-90]
6. Elton Garrett awards and citations: Central Telephone Company
[1985]
7. Elton Garrett bank book [1943-44]
8. Elton Garrett birthday cards
9. Elton Garrett business cards and advertisements
10. Elton Garrett campaign cards
11. Elton Garrett correspondence: Adams, Eva [1942]
12. Elton Garrett correspondence: Bunker, Berkeley [1941]
13. Elton Garrett correspondence: educational [1937-42]
14. Elton Garrett correspondence: Garrett, Charles W.
[1927 and 1962]
15. Elton Garrett correspondence: Lloyd, Elwood [1929]
16. Elton Garrett correspondence: McCarran, Pat [1942]
17. Elton Garrett correspondence: Ryan, Frank [1949]
18. Elton Garrett correspondence: Scrugham, J. G. [1941-42]
19. Elton Garrett correspondence: Silver, C. [September 3, 1941]
20. Elton Garrett correspondence: Thayer, Duke [1942]
21. Elton Garrett correspondence: Young, Walker [1975]
22. Elton Garrett driver's licenses [1956, 1958, 1980]
23. Elton Garrett membership cards
24. Elton Garrett's Nevada State Board of Education
Life Diplomas [1941]
25. Elton Garrett's Nevada State Board of Education teaching
certificates
26. Elton Garrett teaching contracts [1934-39]
27. Elton Garrett voting materials
28. essays - "Autobiography" [profiles of Garrett's
acquaintances (1976)]
29. essays - "Dear Mittens" [memorial letter (undated)]
30. essays - "How I Found God" [1984]
31. essays - "How [To] Build a Religious Leader Or ...
A Great Teacher"
32. "Firsts" achieved by Elton Garrett
33. housing: Application To Purchase House [April 15, 1936]
34. housing: earnest money receipt and agreement for
555 Ave. G [1949]
35. housing: Meadland, Inc. [1976-77 (includes 1971 copy of will)]
36. insurance documents
37. memorial materials for Elton Garrett [1992]
38. Nevada Southern University [xeroxed papers]
39. novelty cards
40. open house event [November 7, 1980]
41. Peace Plaque material
42. programs: City of Hope Second Annual Governor's
Regal Ball [1975]
43. programs: Nevada Governor's Inaugural Ball [1971]
44. programs: Nevada State Democratic Convention [1954]
45. receipts: poll tax [1942-43]
46. receipts: property improvements [1941-42]
47. receipts: Public School Teachers' Retirement Salary Fund
Board [1938-42]
48. receipts: Red Cross [1941]
49. receipts: school supplies [1939-41]
50. stationery
51. tax notices and receipts [1937-43]
52. Woollett, William
53." Nuggets of Nevada Color" [1930 (xeroxes)]
54."Nuggets of Nevada Color" [January - June 1931
(xeroxes)]
55. "Nuggets of Nevada Color" [July - December 1931 (xeroxes)]
56. "Nuggets of Nevada Color" [January - March 1932 (xeroxes)]
57. "Nuggets of Boulder Color" [July 16, 1932 - June 5, 1933
(xeroxes)]
58."Nuggets of Boulder Color" [November - December 1932
(clippings)]
59. "Nuggets of Boulder Color" [January 1933 (clippings)]
60. "Nuggets of Boulder Color" [February 1933 (clippings)]
61. "Nuggets of Boulder Color" [March 1933 (clippings)]
62. "Nuggets of Boulder Color" [April 1933 (clippings)]
63. "Nuggets of Boulder Color" [May 1933 (clippings)]
64."Nuggets of Boulder Color " [June 1933 (clippings)]
Box 2 of 5 [artifacts]
loose
plaque: "Rotary Club of Boulder City/Rotarian of the Year/
1981 - 1982/Elton M. Garrett/For His Continued Efforts/
To Promote World Peace/And Understanding Through/
Plaquery"
Tray 1 of 4
1. business card holder
2. Elton M. Garrett Realty plastic wallet/pouch
3. plaster plaque
4. yellow cotton bag with "Boulder City Journal" 1932 stenciled on
5. glass plaque in recognition of Garrett's service on the Boulder City
Chamber of Commerce Executive Board [1988]
6. book bag [?] printed with "Garrett Bobcats" [ca. 1980s]
Tray 2 of 4
1. pen holder ["Elton Garrett/Boulder City/Rotarian of the Year,
1981"]
2. pen holder ["Elton Garrett/Happy 87th Birthday/Las Vegas Board
of Realtors"]
3. plaque ["Elton Garrett/1st Honorary Marshall/of/Las Vegas Board
of Realtors/American Home Week/Gold Tournament/1989"]
4. plaque ["Elton Garrett/ Board of Directors/ Honorary Director/
1985/Boulder City Chamber of Commerce"]
Tray 3 of 4
1. name plate [wood]
2. name plate [plastic]
3. mechanical address book
4. plaque ["Member/No Solicitations Considered/Unless First
Submitted to/The Better Business Bureau"]
5. plaque ["Nevada Outstanding Citizen Award/for Meritorious
Service/to/the People of/Boulder City ... Awarded to/Elton
Garrett/by/Nevada Savings and Loan"]
Tray 4 of 4
1. plaque ["Elton M. Garrett/ In Appreciation of Your/ Contributions
Toward/World Peace and Understanding/Presented By/the Bahai's/of
Boulder City, Nevada/World Peace Day/September 19, 1982"]
2. plaque ["Elton Garrett/Presented By/Boulder First Nighters/In
Recognition of/Your Continuing Support/of Community
Theatre/April 28, 1984"]
3. plaque ["Certificate of Recognition" (from the Boulder City
Chamber of Commerce, 1984)]
4. plaque ["The Boulder City/Chamber of Commerce/Presents a
Lifetime/Directorship to/Elton M. Garrett/In Grateful
Appreciation/of His/Untiring Efforts in/Promoting the
Chamber/1977"]
5. wooden paper holder shaped like a clothespin
Box 3 of 5 [artifacts]
1. small box of badges, bow ties, ribbons, leather wallet
2. bound collection of Nevada State Assembly Bills [1959]
3. Boulder City Rotary Club scrapbook with news clippings and
photographs [1958-59]
4. printing plate and proof of an advertisement for Elton M. Garrett
Realty from the Las Vegas Review-Journal [n. d.; ca. 1950s]
5. four campaign posters ["Elect Elton/ Garrett/ Democrat/ ... County
Commissioner"]
6. Record of Proceedings—Trial of Petty Offenses, Lake Mead
National Recreation Area, Docket 8, Cases 5 [August 6, 1969] -
Case 400 [September 28, 1969]
Box 4 of 5 [artifacts]
Tray 1 of 2
1. badges
2. two Elton M. Garrett Realty refrigerator magnets
3. two license plate key chains
4. printing plate with Elton Garrett's portrait
5. brass [?] business card holder ["Elton M. Garrett/Boulder City
Chamber of Commerce/Honorary Director 1986"]
Tray 2 of 2
1. fifteen rubber stamps for various businesses and organizations;
notary public stamp
2. two seal presses [Garrett-Greater Nevada Properties, Inc., 1984;
and Elton M. Garrett notary public (n.d.)]
Box 5 of 5 [artifacts]
1. one leather satchel
2. one painted masonite sign board ["Elton M. Garrett/Licensed/Real
Estate Broker"]
3. 1904 Indian Head penny [AU] - the first money ever earned by
Elton Garrett [in November 1905, picking cotton in Okmulgee,
Indian Territory—later Oklahoma— when Garrett was 5 years old
(with documentation in Garrett's hand)]
4. $1 bill [series 1935A, silver certificate] won by Elton Garrett in a
1943 game of snooker, signed on the back and dated by the men
Garrett beat
5. Framed photocopy of a piece of paper with the words: "Good Will
Among Men;" typed legend on the back, signed by Elton M. Garrett,
reads, "December 19, 1941/Rotarian Clee: During the first year
Superintendent Elbert Edwards and I were associated in the
administrative affairs of Boulder City Schools, I once asked Elbert
what he considered the greatest need of mankind. He reached for a
pad and pencil and scrawled out four words. I carried the slip in my
pocket a long while. This is a photo static copy of it. Christmas
compliments to you and yours!"
Folder 1 of 1
1. pencil drawing of the Garrett home at 628 Avenue K by R. Theodore
"Ted" Goodwin [12.75" x 9-5/8"]
2. "Curmudgeon Award" for Elton Garrett from the city of Boulder
City, awarded October 26, 1993
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