The collection is comprised of architectural records (1947-2001) of American architect, Homer Rissman and the architectural firm, Rissman and Rissman Associates Ltd, a partnership of Homer Rissman and his brother Marshall. The collection includes 825 items from over 40 major projects and over 110 minor projects. The Rissmans' work represented in the collection focused on Las Vegas, Reno, and Lake Tahoe, Nevada, Los Angeles, Southern California, and Arizona, with Homer's early career design work in Chicago, Illinois. The materials feature hand-drawn architectural drawings, ranging from pencil and ink on tracing paper preliminary sketches to ink on Mylar (TM) construction documents, and a number of artist’s renderings, used for presentations and promotional materials. The drawings also contain work from a number of consultants, engineers, and other architects who collaborated on the development of the various projects. The collection includes architectural drawings for: hotels, casinos, integrated casino resorts, office towers, multi-family residential developments, and custom single-family homes.
Oral history interview with Dr. Porter Troutman conducted by Claytee D. White on November 20, 2006 for the UNLV @ 50 Oral History Project. Troutman discusses his activism in the Civil Rights Movement during college. He also discusses working for the National Teacher Corps and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in multicultural education.
Stones placed as barriers along Epic View Court in Ascaya, a luxury home development carved into the McCullough Mountain range in Henderson, Nevada. The project's infrastructure was built completely with materials mined on site and all major improvements were installed prior to beginning sales.
The Las Vegas Stadium project is slated for vacant land roughly bordered by Russel Road, Polaris Avenue, West Hacienda Avenue, and Dean Martin Drive. Planned as the future home of the Las Vegas Raiders, the site features close proximity to the Las Vegas Strip.
The Las Vegas Stadium project is slated for vacant land roughly bordered by Russel Road, Polaris Avenue, West Hacienda Avenue, and Dean Martin Drive. Planned as the future home of the Las Vegas Raiders, the site features close proximity to the Las Vegas Strip.
The Las Vegas Stadium project is slated for vacant land roughly bordered by Russel Road, Polaris Avenue, West Hacienda Avenue, and Dean Martin Drive. Planned as the future home of the Las Vegas Raiders, the site features close proximity to the Las Vegas Strip.
The Las Vegas Stadium project is slated for vacant land roughly bordered by Russel Road, Polaris Avenue, West Hacienda Avenue, and Dean Martin Drive. Planned as the future home of the Las Vegas Raiders, the site features close proximity to the Las Vegas Strip.
The upstream view of Black Canyon. Typed description on back of image: "Looking upstream at the Black rock site of the Boulder Canyon Dam project. The River is about a 280 feet wide at this point and a 550 foot dam would be about 1200 feet wide at the top."