Special Collections and Archives News
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Current Special Collections and Archives News
Nearly 160 issues of publication offer researchers a look at the businesses, culture, and connections that shaped the gentlemen’s club industry.
Howard Hughes’ legacy lives on at UNLV, from artifacts and photographs in the Special Collections & Archives to the Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering.
Historic Hoover Dam image, selected for national initiative, showcases the role of UNLV Special Collections & Archives in preserving history.
The Robert Scott Hooper Photograph Collection at UNLV preserves decades of celebrity portraiture, commercial imagery, and the changing visual culture of Las Vegas.
Su Kim Chung shares what's special to her after a quarter century working in UNLV Special Collections & Archives.
Balancing full-time work while taking classes, the UNLV alumna built the skills and confidence to launch a two-decade career in wealth management.
Special Collections and Archives In The News
Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the effects of that day can still be seen across Southern Nevada.
Public can view items at UNLV Special Collections and Archives
Historical research preserved at UNLV notes that Mexicans worked on local railroad crews as early as 1905, and Census records show substantial Mexican participation in the railroad workforce by 1910. Migration increased during the Mexican Revolution as workers came north seeking economic opportunity.
SCNG journalists' Day 2 en route to New York for the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks was a search for “all that is honest and good.”
SCNG journalists' first stop en route to New York for the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks is the fake version where genuine feelings were shared.
Many of those lives lost on 9/11 are remembered in the UNLV Special Collections and Archives at the Lied Library. In the wake of the attacks, an impromptu shrine formed outside of New York-New York on the Las Vegas Strip.