This collection is unprocessed. See Access Note for more information. The Nevada and Las Vegas, Nevada Maps and Tourism Ephemera collection (1871-2019) consists of five boxes of Nevada and Las Vegas maps and two boxes of Nevada travel and tourism ephemera.

Oral history interview with Richard Marc Denton conducted by Claytee D. White on December 12 and 16, 2024 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. In this interview, Denton recalls his childhood and growing up in Los Angeles, California. After high school, Denton joined the military and was sent to Vietnam, and served actively for a year but qualified for an early release. Returning to Southern California, he worked for the Department of Public Works and then for the United States Post Office until retirement. He moved to a quieter life in Las Vegas, Nevada where he describes his love of the desert, learning about the city's history, and is a member of the Old Spanish Trail Association.

The UNLV Libraries Collection of Regional Civic Plans (approximately 1940-1978) contain a variety of civic plans and area maps related to various projects within UNLV Special Collection's collecting region.

The Harvey L. Daiell Papers (1855, 1953) contains a diploma of Euphasia Humphrey (a distant family member of Daiell) from Rogersville Union Seminary, dated June 21, 1855, and a brief genealogy of the Daiell and Humphrey families. The collection also contains a bound book of letters titled "Howard D. Evans - His History at Lakeside Laboratories As Told by His Friends," compiled by Daiell in 1953.

The E. W. Smith Glass Plate Negatives (approximately 1900-1916) contain original glass plate negatives created by E. W. Smith during his time in Tonopah, Manhattan, Goldfield, and other central Nevada mining towns in the early 1900s. All photographs are presumed to be taken by E. W. Smith unless noted otherwise in the inventory. The negatives were collected by Warren Virgil "Mac" McGowan, who along with his wife Hilda lived in Tonopah, Nevada from approximately 1930 to the 1960s. He was the town photographer and ran a store and boarding house located at what is now 111 N. Main Street in Tonopah.

The Chip Johnson Collection of Hoover Dam Photographs (approximately 1930-1936) consist of sixteen black-and-white photographs that depict the construction of Hoover Dam and the surrounding area. The photographs were taken by an unknown photographer.