In celebration of Asian-Pacific Heritage Month, Special Collections has created an exhibit featuring historical photographs and documents on Asian-Pacific entertainers in Las Vegas over the years. Materials on display on the 3rd Floor of Lied Library include items such as this orignal program from the China Doll Revue which appeared at the Thunderbird Hotel and Casino in 1959. Please stop by and take a look!
May 2009 Archives
Our latest digital project - Southern Nevada: The Boomtown Years, 1900-1920-1925 -- is now live. Access this fabulous collection of digitzed photographs, correspondence, maps, ledgers, and more -- along with a teacher's guide providing activities for grades 3-12 in eleven subject areas -- at: http://digital.library.unlv.edu/boomtown
In conjunction with the Society of American Archivists' "May Day / Save Our Archives" event, Conservator Michael Frazier and his staff have inventoried, consolidated, and re-positioned the disaster recovery supplies in Lied Library. These items would be used to salvage library and archival materials in the case of an emergency recovery event. Read more about May Day at: http://www.archivists.org/mayday/index.a
