Every month, Special Collections and Archives will highlight some of our newly processed collections. Here are some of the highlights for February.
Pearl Francis Neeley Photograph Collection, approximately 2000-2024. PH-00091. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. Explore the complete Pearl Francis Neely finding aid.
- The Pearl Francis Neeley Photograph Collection (approximately 2000-2024) consists of digital reproductions of Francis and Neeley family photographs taken from approximately 1890 to 1945 throughout Central and Southern Nevada. Notable locations include Pioche, Eagle Valley, Spring Valley, and Las Vegas, Nevada. Also included in the collection is a digital reproduction of an autobiographical typescript by Neeley titled “My Life History,” and a multipart audio recording of Neeley recollecting her experiences growing up in rural Nevada and other events in her life. This collection consists entirely of digital surrogates.
- Subjects: photographs; Nevada -- History; Frontier and pioneer life--Nevada; Latter Day Saints; Lincoln County (Nev.); Las Vegas (Nev.)
E. W. Smith Glass Plate Negatives, approximately 1900-1916. PH-00460. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. Explore the complete E. W. Smith finding aid.
- 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.
- Subjects: Goldfield (Nev.); Tonopah (Nev.); glass plate negatives; Mining districts -- Nevada
Rudolf Stuebing Photographs, approximately 1960-1969. PH-00368. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. Explore the complete Rudolf Stuebing finding aid.
- The Rudolf Stuebing Photographs (approximately 1960-1969) consist of ten color positive mounted slides depicting Las Vegas' Fremont Street and the Stardust Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Four additional color photographs depict the Hoover Dam. All images were taken by Rudolf Stuebing on a visit to the United States in the 1960s.
- Subjects: Stardust Resort and Casino (Las Vegas, Nev.); color slides; Las Vegas Strip (Nev.); Fremont Street (Las Vegas, Nev.); color photographs
Dekkers, Joris (author); Thomas, Roger (contributor); & Schaeffer, Glenn (editor), 2024. Las Vegas : the journey of a lifetime (First edition.). Netherlands: [Publisher not identified]. Explore the complete catalog record.
- Las Vegas: the journey of a lifetime features photographs of Las Vegas as it grew and developed, and offers an in-depth view of why Las Vegas became the entertainment capital of the world.
- Subjects: Las Vegas (Nev.) -- Pictorial works; Las Vegas (Nev.) -- History -- Pictorial works; Las Vegas (Nev.) -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works; Photobooks
