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Images courtesy of Missouri University S&T and Larry Gragg.
This inaugural post in our Researcher Profile series will highlight researchers and who have used resources in Special Collections & Archives for a variety of projects ranging from articles and books to exhibits and documentaries and more.
This post focuses on the work of long-time Special Collections patron Dr. Larry Gragg, who spent over 40 years as a history professor at…Read More
Las Vegas City Commission minute books Las Vegas City Commission Records, 1911-1960. MS-00237.
This is part two of a two-part article on Collections as Data research at the UNLV Libraries.
Select Las Vegas City Commission Records are now available as a dataset that can be analyzed using computational research tools. Read on for more information, or go directly to the dataset at https://github.com/UNLV-Libraries/UNLV-Collections-as-Data/tree/master/Las-Vegas-Commission.
Cory Lampert, Head of Digital Collections, and Emily Lapworth, Digital Special Collections Librarian provide…Read More
Eadington Fellow Scott Boylan with the Charles J. Hirsch Papers.
Scott Boylan, Professor of Accounting, Washington & Lee University, is our first Eadington Fellow of 2020. He will be exploring the professional papers of casino accountant Charles J. Hirsch (MS-00291) for his talk “Charles J. Hirsch and His Role in Advancing the Use of Statistical Sampling and Analysis in the Accounting Profession” which will be held on Friday, March 13 from 3-4pm in the Goldfield Room, Lied Library, UNLV campus.
Digital Collections, part of Special Collections and Archives in the University Libraries, has digitized 10 oral histories and made them available on our website this month. These stories, collected as part of several projects from the UNLV Oral History Research Center, provide a detailed look at the many people different people who call Las Vegas and Southern Nevada home.
Our new online oral histories include:
Ron Current, Black Panther Party Las Vegas Chapter Founder
The Rhyolite Bottling Works from Rhyolite, Nevada calendar depicting Cascade Falls in Yosemite Valley, California, 1909, UNLV University Libraries Collection of Nevada Calendars, MS-00990
In celebration of a new year, Archival Backlog Elimination Project Archival Processing Assistant Ryan DiPaolo’s blog post highlights unique Nevada calendars from the UNLV University Libraries Collection of Nevada Calendars (MS-00990). DiPaolo recently received his MA LIS from the University of Arizona, Tucson.
As we at Special Collections and Archives get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving with our families and friends, we’d like to share some menus of Las Vegas Thanksgiving dinners from years past and express our gratitude for the hard work across our division this year that has made the UNLV University Libraries Menu Collection open for research.
Over the summer, we received generous donations from Mark and Marianne Haley and the UNLV University Libraries Advisory Board that allowed us to hire…Read More
This collection highlight blog post was written by Jimmy Chang, an archival processing assistant on the Archival Backlog Elimination Project. Jimmy Chang received his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Architecture with a tract in hospitality design. His thesis focused on the rediscovery, promotion, creation, and development of history through the connections between architecture and fiction, and he has worked with roofing and architectural companies before working as an archival assistant at UNLV Libraries Special Collections and Archives. He is currently working toward entering the fields of architectural history and conservation.
The original Las Vegas Land & Water Co., located on North 2nd near Fremont Street (PH-00002). From the Squires Family Photographs Collection.
The Digital Collections department in UNLV University Libraries Special Collections & Archives has completed work on a grant-funded project to digitize documents related to water resources from the Union Pacific Railroad Collection.
“The founding and growth of Las Vegas as a major metropolitan area is due to the railroad industry, specifically the Union Pacific Railroad,” said Cory Lampert, head of UNLV Digital Collections. “Given the vital issue of water resources management, we prioritized the…Read More
Atmospheric nuclear bomb test at the NTS in the 1950s.
Image Credit: Film Transparency showing an atomic explosion at the Nevada Test Site, circa 1950s,” L.F. Manis Photographs, 1900-1969, PH-00100. Special Collections & Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Billy Marino received his BA and MA from UNLV’s Department of History where he studied environmental history and the American West before working as an archival processing assistant at UNLV Libraries Special Collections & Archives. His thesis focused on the ways environmental perceptions of the West shaped decisions regarding the space race during the 1960s, including extensive research the role of the Nevada Test Site (today called the Nevada…Read More
