The University Libraries are pleased to announce the launch of a new digital collection:
Southern Nevada: The Boomtown Years 1900-1925
http://digital.library.unlv.edu/boomtown
The LSTA-grant funded, Southern Nevada: The Boomtown Years 1900-1925 digital collection brings together a wide range of original source materials found in the rich collections of UNLV Libraries Special Collections, as well as items from the Nevada State Museum and the Clark County Heritage Museum.
The project contains over 1500 digitized items; including photographs, correspondence, newspapers, maps, and ephemera from several mining and railroad manuscript collections documenting both large historical events, and the more private and social lives of individuals and their communities during the mining boom in Southern Nevada.
Notably, this collection also promotes the use of primary source materials by K-16 educators by providing a wide variety of standards-based teaching activities for elementary and high schoolers.
For more information about the collection, or to share your comments, please feel free to contact me via e-mail at cory.lampert@unlv.edu.
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