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Glenn Davis - Las Vegas Photographer by Maryse Lundering-Timpano

Glenn Davis photographed a sailboat on Lake Mead near the crest of Boulder Dam from the upstream Nevada side. The dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.  (PH: 0020-0126)

UNLV history graduate student Maryse Lundering-Timpano worked as a summer intern in Special Collections this past June and July creating finding aids for our many historic photograph collections. Here she describes a collection of particular interest to her.

Here Davis photographed the main construction site of the Boulder Dam project from the downstream side. (PH: 0020-0072)

Hoover Dam was the first federal government project in…Read More

The Building Las Vegas Collecting Initiative

Photograph of the I-15 corridor, March 23, 2016.  Aaron Mayes, UNLV University Libraries Special Collections.


Photograph of the I-15 corridor, March 23, 2016.  Aaron Mayes, UNLV Libraries Special Collections.


Special Collections launched the Building Las Vegas collecting initiative in July 2016. With start-up funding from the Tiberti Family, the project initially focuses on collecting oral histories with architects, urban planners, builders, developers, contractors, interior designers,…Read More

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