While our surrounding mountains may regularly become covered in snow, seldom does the white stuff fall in town. Here we've gathered some fun winter weather photos from the archives in UNLV Libraries.
When it snowed on Jan. 10, 1930, most of the children at the historic Fifth Street School in Las Vegas had never seen snow. These kindergarteners are doing what children simply must do when there's enough snowfall: build a snowman! (Doris Hancock Collection, UNLV Special Collections)
“The Great Snowfall of '79” turned the UNLV campus into a winter wonderland on Jan. 31 that year. (University Archives, UNLV Special Collections)
Children playing with a sled on the snow-covered lawn of the Boulder City Bureau of Reclamation Administration Building, 1200 Park Street, circa the 1930s. (Manis Collection, UNLV Special Collections).
Brightly-lit Fremont Street at night in the snow, early 1930s. (Elbert Edwards Collection, UNLV Special Collections)
A view of Fremont Street in 1921, after a snowfall. This photograph was taken looking west, with the El Portal Theater clearly visible on the right. The El Portal Theater still stands on Fremont Street as an Arts and Crafts trading post, but was once the venue for the world premiere of the classic film “From Here to Eternity.” (Lake-Egington Collection, UNLV Special Collections)
