Every month, Special Collections and Archives will highlight some of our newly processed collections. Here are some of the highlights for May.
Ken Easley Photographs for Del Webb Corporation in Nevada, approximately 1979-1988. PH-00461. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. Explore the complete Ken Easley finding aid.
- The Ken Easley Photographs for Del Webb Corporation in Nevada (approximately 1979-1988) consist of photographic slides, transparencies, prints, contact sheets, and negatives depicting various Del Webb Corporation properties throughout Nevada, including the Nevada Club Hotel and Casino in Laughlin, The Mint Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, the High Sierra Hotel and Casino (formerly Del Webb’s Sahara Tahoe) in Stateline, and the master-planned development of Sun City Summerlin in Las Vegas, Nevada. The photographs document interiors, exteriors, and signage; restaurants, bars, and lounges; gaming activities; and promotions and events.
- Subjects: Del E. Webb Corporation; The Mint (Las Vegas, Nev.); Nevada Club Hotel and Casino (Laughlin, Nev.); High Sierra Hotel and Casino (Stateline, Nev.); Sun City Summerlin (Las Vegas, Nev.); photographs; Advertising -- Hotels; Las Vegas (Nev.)
Rico Izaguirre Collection of Harrah's Entertainment Records, approximately 2003-2009. MS-01207. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. Explore the complete Izaguirre finding aid.
- The Rico Izaguirre Collection of Harrah’s Entertainment Records (approximately 2003-2009) is comprised of records relating to employee engagement initiatives specific to the Atlantic City, New Jersey properties operated by Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. The initiatives include “Winning Together,” a program intended to boost employees’ political engagement during the 2004 election season in the United States, and “Code Green,” an environmental sustainability program. The materials consist of manager’s handbooks, strategic plans, correspondence, annual reports, awards, and marketing materials, such as posters and newsletters. The collection also includes digital design files for various internal communications and Code Green brochures, handbooks, and fliers.
- Subjects: Atlantic City (N.J.); Advertising -- Hotels; Public relations
1955 Gaming License for Mina, Nevada, 1955. MS-00014. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. Explore the complete Mina, Nevada Gaming License finding aid.
- The 1955 Gaming License for Mina, Nevada collection consists of a single gaming license issued to Nick Marakas to operate slot machines at the Mina Club in Mina, Nevada. The license was purchased by Marakas for $66.00 and issued by the State of Nevada's Mineral County in Hawthorne, Nevada on January 3, 1955.
- Subjects: Mina Club; Mina (Nev.); Gambling; Slot machines
Sambunaris, Victoria, Angie Keefer, Dionne Lee, and Hernán Díaz. Victoria Sambunaris : Transformation of a Landscape. Santa Fe, NM: Radius Books, 2024. [TR660.5 .S265 2024]
- Publisher’s description: "Her first book in over ten years, Victoria Sambunaris: Transformation of a Landscape shares the nuance and majesty of the artist's practice in a large-scale book format. Each year, Sambunaris structures her life around a photographic journey traversing the American landscape. Equipped with a 5x7-inch field camera, film, a video camera, and research material, she crosses the country alone by car for several months. Her large-scale photographs capture the continuing transformation of the American landscape with specific attention given to expanding political, technological, and industrial interventions. Part of her ongoing, twenty-year series Taxonomy of a Landscape, this book encompasses the past decade of work, including collected ephemera that form the essential and incidental elements of her practice as a photographer and researcher. Also featured are archival documentation of experiences and observations on the road, such as snapshots, maps, road logs, journals, geology and history books, mineral specimens, and artifacts. This title follows her first book with Radius, Taxonomy of a Landscape."
- Subjects: Landscape photography -- West (U.S.); Cargo ships -- Pictorial works; Marine organisms -- Pictorial works; Landscape photography; West (U.S.) -- Pictorial works; Photobooks; interviews
