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
The community will gather across southern Nevada on Friday to mark 25 years since the Sept. 11 terror attacks that changed the course of the nation.
Veterans and employees gather at New York-New York in Las Vegas.
The shirts, still creased from wherever they’d been folded away for years, were laid out flat on a long table near the replica Statue of Liberty at New York-New York on the Strip.
Thousands of shirts, flags, stuffed animals, and handwritten notes left outside the New York-New York Hotel and Casino after the Sept. 11 attacks are being preserved at UNLV as a lasting tribute to those lost and the people who mourned them.
Twenty-five years ago, people began leaving T-shirts, flags, flowers, photographs and handwritten messages outside the Statue of Liberty replica at New York-New York hotel-casino. What began spontaneously in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks eventually grew into a collection of more than 6,000 pieces.
Behind the doors at UNLV is a carefully curated collection of items that showcase the history and personal touch of September 11th, 2001.