From the Ray W. Baldwin Photograph Collection (PH-00194) -- Buildings designed by architect Ray W. Baldwin, in the Las Vegas area from 1939 to about 1958. Image one: L.D.S. Chapel, in North Las Vegas, probably on White Street. Image two: L.D.S. Chapel, North Las Vegas, probably on White Street. Image three: View of another side of the L.D.S. Chapel in North Las Vegas, probably on White Street. Image four: Back view of the L.D.S. Chapel in North Las Vegas, probably on White Street. Image five: Another view of the L.D.S. Chapel during its construction in North Las Vegas, probably on White Street. Image six: Front view of the L.D.S. Chapel, in North Las Vegas, probably on White Street.
From the Erle A. Taylor Photograph Collection (PH-00237) -- Individuals meet during the second annual International Exposition of Flight (IEF) directors meeting. Depicted from left to right is Fred S. Hollister, the IEF General Manager, Alan Bible, U.S. Senator, Erle Taylor, IEF President, G. Barney Rawlings, the IEF Director, and Captain Harrision Finch, the IEF Staff Operations Manager.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas University Library Society Board. Front row, L-R: Helen Mortenson, Nevada assembly member Renee Diamond, UNLV English professor Patricia Geuder. 2nd row, L-R: unidentified woman, UNLV Library employees Marta Sorkin, Deanna Stefanelli. 3rd row, L-R: Shirley Hurt, UNLV librarians Mary Harrison, Susan Jarvis ((director of the UNLV Gaming Resource Center), Dr. Robert "Bob" Boord (UNLV College of Education), UNLV librarian Jim McPhee, Dean of UNLV Libraries Matt Simon. They are in the Administration conference room of the James Dickinson Library, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.F. Lowe Family. The boarding house constructed by R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks and his wife, Celestia, at Shoshone, California, shortly after their founding of the community in 1910. The woman at left is Celestia Fairbanks; next to her is her husband, "Dad"; the man to the left of the dog is Shorty Harris; next to him is Herman Jones; the third man down from Herman is Charlie Brown, in white shirt and dark pants. Sitting on post at far right is man the world would later know as Sir Harry Oakes. Photo Taken about 1915. (More info behind photo).
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VI. Tonopah, Nevada -- Subseries VI.G. Miscellaneous. Back row, from left: John Anderson (2nd), Minnie Cannak (4th), Catherine Ryan (5th), Ray Tennant (6th). Second row: Thelma Call (1st) Elaine O’Hara (3rd), Red Douglas (4th), Billy Geyer (5th), Catherine Banovich (6th), Tom Beko (7th), Clinton Steveson (8th). Front row: Elsie Thompson (1st), Helen Booth (2nd), Leonard Burn (3rd), Muriel Prout (5th), Homer O’Connell (6th), a girl named Burns (in the White dress), and Bruno Skanovsky next to the last in the front row. Others unknown.
The Jackie Brett Collection on Las Vegas, Nevada Entertainment (1977-1996) consists of writings by Jackie Brett and publications and clippings about Las Vegas, Nevada entertainment and tourism. Brett worked for the Nevada Commission on Tourism and promoted southern Nevada through her column "Brett's Vegas View." She wrote about production shows, concerts, special performances, and events as well as the overall development of Las Vegas tourist industry in the 1980s and 1990s.
The Janet MacEachern Papers (1960-1988) consist of programs, correspondence, financial reports, rosters, clippings, scrapbooks, and photographs relating to her work on various Las Vegas, Nevada, Boulder City, Nevada, and State legislative and political advisory boards.
The Robert H. Crabtree papers (1920-1999) sub-series contains an extensive account of Crabtree's career as a professor and archaeologist. Materials includes correspondence, photographic prints and negatives, reports, and notes of archeological surveys and excavations done in Southern California, Southern Nevada, Washington, Oregon, and Mexico. Collection includes resources such as field catalogs, proposals, newsletters, annual reports, workflow documentation, conference materials, and meeting minutes from various archaeological and anthropological societies and organizations. The subseries also includes class notes, dissertation drafts, and manuscripts used by Crabtree during his academic career. Digital files include field notes and reports.
Archival Collection
Elizabeth von Till and Claude N. Warren Professional Papers
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The Joan Snyder Meadows Playhouse Collection (1968-1981) consists of materials from the Meadows Playhouse, a University of Nevada, Las Vegas playhouse that was located on Maryland Parkway, south of the university campus. It includes architectural plans, interdepartmental and external correspondence and memos about designing a theater major program, examples of other university theater major requirements, press releases, copies of plays with set design and director’s notes, notes on student actors, photographs, production playbills, and newspaper clippings regarding various productions.
The Credit Professionals of Las Vegas Records (1941-1999) include information about the organization and its two predecessors, the Credit Women's Club of Las Vegas, Nevada and the Credit Women's Breakfast Club of Las Vegas, Nevada. The collection includes scrapbooks, procedure manuals from the local and international division of the organization, awards received by the local division, and regional and local newsletters.