Every month, Special Collections and Archives will highlight some of our newly processed collections. Here are some of the highlights for September.
Southern Nevada Gem and Mineral Society Records, 1950-2024. MS-01188. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. Explore the complete Gem and Mineral Society finding aid.
- The Southern Nevada Gem and Mineral Society Records (1950-2024) contain the records of the Clark County Gem Collectors, Las Vegas Gem Collectors, and the current Southern Nevada Gem and Mineral Society. The collection contains articles of incorporation, by-laws, membership directories, meeting minutes, correspondence, financial records, show paperwork, and award certificates. Also included are photographs of the organizations since the 1970s and digital scans of Gem Times and The Polished Slab newsletters.
- Subjects: Southern Nevada Gem and Mineral Society; Clark County Gem Collectors; Las Vegas Gem Collectors; Gemology; Mineralogy; Collectors and collecting; Southern Nevada
Patchin Pictures Videotapes, approximately 1998-2002. MS-01191. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. Explore the complete Patchin Pictures finding aid.
- Video production work created by Steven Patchin for clients like the Clark County Parks and Recreation Department and the Southern Nevada Jazz Society. Videos include content of Jazz musician interviews, various parks activities, Las Vegas history, and work on the Clark County Wetlands Park.
- Subjects: Video tapes; Yucca Mountain (Nev.); Outdoor recreation; Jazz; Las Vegas (Nev.) -- History; McCarran International Airport (Nev.)
Harry Oliver's Desert Rat Scrap Book. Thousand Palms, Calif. : Hubbard Printing.Call number (F786 .H277). Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. Explore the complete "Desert Rat" catalog record.
- The Desert Rat Scrap Book (DRSB) was a quarterly, southwestern humor publication based in Thousand Palms, California. It was published in editions of 10,000 to 20,000 copies, whenever its creator, Harry Oliver had sufficient material, and enough money to pay the printer. Forty-six issues were printed and distributed via Southern California bookstores and newsstands, and by mail worldwide. DRSB was devoted to lore, legends, lies and laughs of the American Southwest region, especially featuring prospectors and other desert rats. The publication was launched in late 1945 and ran through early 1967. Special Collections and Archives has issues from 1946.
- Subjects: Deserts -- Humor -- Periodicals; Wit and humor; Southwest, New -- Humor -- Periodicals; New Southwest
