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Introduction to the Menu Project

UNLV staff working on menus in 1970

Special Collections Librarian Susan Anderl (seated left) with library staff member Linda Compton (seated right) and Wende Lestelle, student worker, 1979

Beginning in 1970, the UNLV Libraries Special Collections and Archives Division began collecting menus earnestly, including the collection of Henry J. Bohn, a publisher of hotel trade magazines and extensive collector of historic menus. Bohn had acquired the menus of Henri Bettoni, who worked in restaurants in London at the turn of the twentieth century. These early menus comprise the Bohn-Bettoni Menu Collection (MS-00793) and started the UNLV Libraries’ efforts to collect menus from across the world.

Early Special Collections librarians recognized the value of the menus to students at UNLV’s…Read More

Armed Services Editions: A Footnote to D-Day by Cyndi Shein

Candide and other Armed Services Editions from the C and D series, UNLV Libraries
Candide and other Armed Services Editions from the C and D series

Cyndi Shein is Head of Technical Services in Special Collections and Archives

In the hours leading up to D-Day, war correspondent A. J. Liebling observed an unexpected sight aboard the landing craft as it cut across the English Channel headed for the French coast. Rather than anxiously discussing the perils ahead, “...the soldiers were spread all over the LCIL [Landing Craft, Infantry Large] … most…Read More

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