The Relda Leavitt Photograph Collection (1983) consists of reproductions of black-and-white photographic prints and negatives of images taken between approximately 1913 and 1954. The images depict Leavitt’s relatives in Southern Nevada. Other images portray students at the 5th Street Grammar School in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Paul May Photograph Collection (1969) consists of black-and-white and color photographic prints. The images primarily depict Nevada Assemblyman Paul May alongside Nevadan senators and congressmen, including Senator Paul Laxalt. Other images are portraits of May.

The Gilcrease Farm Photograph Collection (approximately 2000-2002) contains three video tapes featuring interviews with Ted Gilcrease originally intended for a documentary that was never produced. There are also facsimiles of photographs of the Gilcrease brothers and their ranch and farm from the mid-to-late 1920s.

The Verna Mortensen Photograph Collection (approximately 1960-1679) is comprised of eight photographic prints that depict Fremont Street in Las Vegas, Nevada and ferries on the Colorado River in Nevada.

The Union Plaza Photograph Collection, approximately 1970 to 1971, consists of photographic prints and negatives taken during the construction of the Union Plaza Hotel and Casino in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. Images portray the construction process, the surrounding area and businesses, and the completed project.

The Roy Baugher Photograph Collection (approximately 1965-1979) contains fifteen photographic prints of entertainment primarily at the Desert Inn, Frontier Hotel, and Stardust Hotel, a copy of Vegas Visitor guide from 1970, and a home movie depicting Caesars Palace, the Las Vegas Strip, Hoover Dam, the Big Horn Trading Post, and Gold Spike Inn on 8mm film and in digital format. The materials in this collection were compiled by Roy Baugher III, an independent scholar and artist from Roanoke, Virginia. Baugher compiled these materials as part of his research on the Tokyo Happy Coats, an all-female band from Japan who performed in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Desert Inn and the Frontier Hotel from 1964 to 1970.

The Vesta Palmer Photograph Collection contains two black-and-white photographs of Las Vegas, Nevada: the first photograph depicts the Las Vegas High School class of 1924; the second photograph shows the first phone switchboard installed in Boulder City around 1931.