Special Collections and Archives News
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Current Special Collections and Archives News
Author, activist, and alum Dennis McBride on how classmates and allies established one of the city’s first LGBTQ organizations — the Gay Academic Union.
UNLV Special Collections workshop helps families collect oral histories, memorabilia, and records to pass down through the generations.
The project reframes the experience of walking into the building while honoring the memories of the professors lost.
A grant-funded project in Special Collections and Archives digitizes more than 800 at-risk video files.
A monthly roundup of the top news stories at UNLV, featuring the presidential election, gaming partnerships, and much more.
![Political cartoon showing "The Times" building with speech bubbles that say "Scandal after scandal, All I can Say is Four more Years" followed by "Why is he so happy" and then "He's the cartoonist."](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/media/image/2024-10/MS-01047%20Mike%20Smith%20Box%2038%20Folder%201.jpg?itok=6iVxnNMX "Political cartoon showing "The Times" building with speech bubbles that say "Scandal after scandal, All I can Say is Four more Years" followed by "Why is he so happy" and then "He's the cartoonist."")
Longtime newspaper cartoonist offers a unique view on local and national politics.
Special Collections and Archives In The News
A group of University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) students have painstakingly preserved a photographer’s archive by digitizing it and making it available online to anyone. Six students worked on the project over the course of two to preserve the work of Clinton Wright, a press photographer who documented Black life in the Westside neighborhood of Las Vegas in the 1960s.
UNLV students are hard at work preserving the images and records of Las Vegas photographer Clinton Wright, whose decades of work shed light into African American life and experience in the 1960s and beyond.
Crystal chandeliers that once glimmered above a swanky lounge, bright blue costume feathers that cloaked shimmying showgirls, and fake palm trees that evoked a desert oasis are just some the artifacts making their way from the latest latest casino graveyards of Las Vegas into Sin City history.
Bally’s Corporation, the operator of the to-be-imploded Tropicana Las Vegas, has agreed to donate a variety of memorabilia to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The casino company was contacted by the university’s Special Collections and Archives department, which wanted to preserve a part of the historic resort.
After it’s imploded on Wednesday morning, the best way to relive memories of the Tropicana Las Vegas will be to head two miles east of the vacant lot to UNLV. Nevada’s largest university recently received five boxes of history from the Rat Pack-era casino resort, most of which it has processed and made available for public perusal — both in person and online.
The iconic Tropicana Hotel, a fixture on the Las Vegas Strip for 67 years, is set to be demolished next Wednesday. The historic property, which closed its doors in April, will make way for a new Major League Baseball stadium.