The Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas invites interested scholars to apply for the 2018-19 cycle of William R. Eadington fellowships, which facilitate research into many aspects of both gambling and Las Vegas at UNLV Special Collections in the University Libraries.
In the 2018-19 academic year, the Center will award two types of Eadington fellowships:
The UNLV University Libraries has made the Harrah’s Entertainment Corporate Archives available to researchers through the Special Collections and Archives Division at Lied Library.
Caesars Entertainment Corporation, formerly called Harrah's Entertainment, Inc., is a gaming corporation based in Nevada. Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. and its predecessors can be traced back to 1946 when businessman William (Bill) Fisk Harrah purchased a casino in Reno, Nevada and named it Harrah's Reno Club. In 1956 Bill Harrah, the sole owner, expanded the Harrah's brand and opened Harrah's Tahoe Club in Stateline, Nevada. In 1971 Harrah decided to take the company public and Harrah's Inc. made its initial public offering. After Bill Harrah's death in 1978, Holiday Inns, Inc. purchased Harrah's Inc. In 1985 Holiday Inns, Inc. was renamed Holiday Corporation. In 1990 Holiday Corporation created The Promus Companies, a corporate spin-off that included the Harrah's brand. In 1995 Promus rebranded as Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. and continued expanding across the United States. The company was renamed Caesars Entertainment Corporation in 2010.
Special Collections will be open for all your research needs on the Nevada Day holiday Friday, October 28th. President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed Nevada to be a state on October 31, 1864, although the commemorative "Nevada Day" has been celebrated instead on the last Friday in October in recent years. Above, from our UNLV University Libraries Collection on Goldfield, Nevada (MS-00010), take a look at secretary M. E. Blanchard's notes on the Nevada Day festivities of the Goldfield Women's Club in 1908. The document is a good example of the many charming treasures awaiting discovery among our vast and varied manuscript collections.
We will be posting updates and information about the UNLV Linked Data Project on this blog. Check back as new information will be posted soon. For questions about the project please contact Silvia Southwick, Digital Collections Metadata Librarian at silvia.southwick@unlv.edu.
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NEW! The UNLV Libraries Showgirls Collection is now available at www.library.unlv.edu/showgirls/
The Showgirls collection documents the unique history of the Las Vegas entertainment industry. Many artists and entrepreneurs were influential in the birth of a Las Vegas icon: the showgirl. Showgirls features unique materials relating to costume design and theatrical productions associated with the history of Las Vegas entertainment.
The University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee has just released a brand new digital collection of over 5,500 photographic images from the slide collections of the American Geographic Society Library. 3,284 color slides were chosen for this project from the extensive Harrison Forman slide collection. Forman’s special interest was in Asia, but his collection also covers cities across all continents. The selected images span the years from 1958 to 1978 The Cities Around the World Collection (http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/digilib/cities/index.html) focuses on the main subject areas of: City & Town Life, Architecture, Views, Transportation, and People.