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Paul B. Sogg Architecture Building

During the summer months, access to the Paul B.

Every month, Special Collections and Archives will highlight some of our newly processed collections. Here are some of the highlights for July.

Dr. Mark Bollman, Professor of Mathematics at Albion College, MI is a frequent visitor to UNLV Libraries Special Collections and Archives where he has researched six books on gambling mathematics.
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UNLV Libraries Special Collections & Archives Visiting Technical Services Librarian Sarah Jones

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With the construction of Hoover Dam all but finished, and the gaming and tourisms industries still in their infancy, the future of Las Vegas in 1937 held no certainties.

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The Las Vegas Centennial Commission has awarded University Libraries a $50,000 grant to support the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada project.

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The UNLV University Libraries Digital Collections department has received an $80,685 Library Services and Technology Act Grant to support a large-scale digitization project.

“We appreciate the support from the Nevada State Library, Archives and Public Records in funding this project to further our work on large-scale digitization efforts,” said Maggie Farrell, Dean of the UNLV University Libraries. “These projects help us quickly provide access to historical documents and photographers for researchers around the globe.”

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Crowd watching sporting event at park opening in Los Angeles, CA, c. 1911

Melise Leech is an archival processing assistant  in UNLV Libraries Special Collections & Archives. 

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Homepage collage for the Entertainment Collections

In her introductory blog post, Doris Morgan Rueda prov

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Photograph of Matthew O’Brien taken by Danny Mollohan for Beneath the Neon.  From the Matthew O'Brien Papers (MS-00849).

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From the German Baroque to Revolutionary France, with Bill Harrah’s playing cards in between, the art of printing and printmaking has captured the eye of collectors. This Reading Room exhibit highlights the visual arts of printing from three collections representing three very different collectors: a European scholar of literature, an unknown American collector of Napoleana, and a Nevada gaming mogul.