Every month, Special Collections and Archives will highlight some of our newly processed collections. Here are some of the highlights for March.
Ray Tutaj Jr. and Harv Kahn Photographs, approximately 1990-2009. PH-00456. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. Explore the complete Tutaj and Kahn finding aid.
- The Ray Tutaj Jr. and Harv Kahn Photographs (approximately 1990-2009) contain photographs and videos taken by Ray Tutaj Jr. and Harv Kahn of the Union Pacific Railroad and trains throughout Las Vegas, Nevada and the southwest region. Tutaj and Kahn were friends who were railroad enthusiasts and hobbyist photographers. Materials include photographic negatives and prints as well as digitized photographs.
- Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company; Landmark Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas, Nev.); Stardust Resort and Casino (Las Vegas, Nev.); Railroads; Fremont Street; photographs; Las Vegas Strip (Nev.)
Hoyle, Edmond, J.B. Lippincott & Co., publisher, Shepard Book Company, bookseller, and Taxe Collection. “Hoyle's Games : Containing the Rules for Playing Fashionable Games with Copious Directions for Boaston, Blind Hookey, Whist, Quadrille, Snip, Snap, Piquet, Quinze, Vingt-Un, Lansquenet, Pharo, Coventry, Rouge et Noir, Cribbage, Matrimony, Cassino, Reversis, Put, Connexions, All Fours, Speculation, Lottery, Pope Joan, Commerce, Eo, Pam-Loo, Brag, Domino, Back-Gammon, Draughts, Hazard, Thirty-One, Chess, Goff, or Golf, Cricket, Billiards, Tennis, Five and Ten, Catch the Ten, Ecarté, Euchre, Bluff, or Poker, Twenty-Deck Poker, Archery, Bowls, or Ten-Pins, Horse-Racing, Cocking.” Carefully revised from the last London edition, with American additions. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1865. Call Number (GV1201 .H83 1867). Special Collections and Archives Periodicals, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. Explore the complete catalog record.
- This title was recently added to WorldCat, the world’s largest library catalog, by the UNLV Libraries Specialized Collections Cataloger. UNLV Special Collections and Archives is the only institution in the world with this particular edition available in their holdings.
- Subjects: Taxe Collection; Games; Card games
Sandy Croteau oral history interview, 2024 January 18. OH-03918. [Cite format consulted: Audio recording or Transcript.] Oral History Research Center, Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. Explore the complete oral history interview.
- Oral history interview with Sandy Croteau conducted by Claytee D. White on January 18, 2024 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. In this interview, Croteau discusses the history of the Tule Springs area, which covers over 13,000 acres and how she became involved in turning the area into Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument. Croteau is a retired real estate professional and a National Parks volunteer. She recalls growing up in Los Angeles and Downey, California and engaging in outdoor activities with her father and brothers, which paved the way for her work on Tule Springs.
- Subjects: Reid, Harry, 1939-2021; Oral histories (document genres); Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument (Nev.); National parks and reserves
Nevada Contractor, 2001-2002. Call Number (HD9715 .A1 N48). Special Collections and Archives Periodicals, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. Explore the complete list of issues available.
- The Nevada Contractor was a periodical issued by the Nevada Contractors Association in Las Vegas, Nevada. Special Collections has issues from 2001-2002.
- Subjects: Periodicals; Construction industry; Contractors; Nevada
