What's New In Special Collections

The Architecture Studies Library will be closed until further notice due to excessive heat.

Lied Library will be closed on Thursday, June 18, due to an air conditioning issue.

Glenn Davis - Las Vegas Photographer by Maryse Lundering-Timpano

Glenn Davis photographed a sailboat on Lake Mead near the crest of Boulder Dam from the upstream Nevada side. The dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947. (PH: 0020-0126)

UNLV history graduate student Maryse Lundering-Timpano worked as a summer intern in Special Collections this past June and July creating finding aids for our many historic photograph collections. Here she describes a collection of particular interest to her.

Here Davis photographed the main construction site of the Boulder Dam project from the downstream side. (PH: 0020-0072)

Hoover Dam was the first federal government project in…Read More

The Building Las Vegas Collecting Initiative

Photograph of the I-15 corridor, March 23, 2016. Aaron Mayes, UNLV University Libraries Special Collections.

Photograph of the I-15 corridor, March 23, 2016. Aaron Mayes, UNLV Libraries Special Collections.

Special Collections launched the Building Las Vegas collecting initiative in July 2016. With start-up funding from the Tiberti Family, the project initially focuses on collecting oral histories with architects, urban planners, builders, developers, contractors, interior designers,…Read More