What do we mean by “Collections As Data” (CAD)? by Cory Lampert & Emily Lapworth
New Online Oral Histories - February 2020
Digital Collections, part of Special Collections and Archives in the University Libraries, has digitized 10 oral histories and made them available on our website this month. These stories, collected as part of several projects from the UNLV Oral History Research Center, provide a detailed look at the many people different people who call Las Vegas and Southern Nevada home.
Our new online oral histories include:
Nevada History through Calendars of the Past by Ryan DiPaolo
The Rhyolite Bottling Works from Rhyolite, Nevada calendar depicting Cascade Falls in Yosemite Valley, California, 1909, UNLV University Libraries Collection of Nevada Calendars, MS-00990
Happy Thanksgiving from UNLV Special Collections and Archives
Thanksgiving Dinner menu, Don the Beachcomber, Sahara Las Vegas, approximately 1963, UNLV University Libraries Menu Collection, MS-00436
Edward C. Light Schematic Drawings of the Hughes H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose" Seaplane by Jimmy Chang
This collection highlight blog post was written by Jimmy Chang, an archival processing assistant on the Archival Backlog Elimination Project. Jimmy Chang received his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Architecture with a tract in hospitality design.
Union Pacific Railroad Collection Water Resources Digitization Project Complete
Understanding the Nature of the Nuclear West at Yucca Mountain by Billy Marino
Atmospheric nuclear bomb test at the NTS in the 1950s.
Image Credit: Film Transparency showing an atomic explosion at the Nevada Test Site, circa 1950s,” L.F. Manis Photographs, 1900-1969, PH-00100. Special Collections & Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Golden Age of Auto Travel by Lauren Paljusaj
The Travel Mat for US 95 shows tourist attractions from Lovelock, Nevada to Blythe, California, featuring the Nevada Test Site and Boulder Dam, approximately 1940-1970, UNLV University Libraries Menu Collection, MS-00436
Snapshots of America by Kyle Gagnon
Over the course of sorting and processing thousands of historic menus, I have come across nearly identical looking menus from completely different restaurants. These menus featured a design of visually stimulating patterns of dots that created a sort of optical illusion effect in the background of the interior, and even more interesting patterns on the back. Inside, different sections of the menu were neatly squared off and organized, with some of them accompanied by charming and detailed illustrations of food.
If You're Game by Mary Anilao
In the early stages of the menu project, I came across a menu that had nothing on the front except the text “If you’re game.” The black text stood out from its white canvas background, but other than that, there was nothing exceptional about this menu. Until I opened it.
If You're Game menu, approximately 1980-1990, UNLV Universities Libraries Collection of Menus, MS-00436