Digital Collections
Southern Nevada: The Boomtown Years (2009)
Southern Nevada: The Boomtown Years brings together a wide range of original source materials found in widely diverse collections from UNLV Libraries Special Collections, the Nevada State Museum, and Historical Society in Las Vegas and the Clark County Heritage Museum.
Welcome Home Howard! (2008)
This collection features photographic images and portraits documenting the life of Howard Hughes, including images selected from two collections: The Howard Hughes Collection and the Hughes Electronics Collection.
Nevada Test Site Oral History Project (2008)
The Nevada Test Site Oral History Project documents the remembered past of persons affiliated with and affected by the Nevada Test Site during the era of Cold War nuclear testing. Nearly 200 full-text searchable transcripts and audio clips are available in this digital collection.
Showgirls (2007)
No other icon epitomizes Las Vegas like the showgirl. While Las Vegas has become known primarily as a gambling resort, in fact its enteritainment is as important to its tourist industry as gambling.
Before Gaming... Celebrating Las Vegas' Centennial, 1905-2005 (2006)
Before Gaming. Before Hotels. Before the tourists came. Where Indians, explorers, settlers, and ranchers wandered, set down, picked up, and mostly moved on.
Las Vegas and Water in the West (2005)
The planning and construction of Hoover Dam is the central and defining phenomenon of the history presented by this digital project.
Southern Nevada and Las Vegas: History in Maps (2005)
The maps selected for this digital project document the cartographic history and context of this region, telescoping in scale from the Western Hemisphere to the streets of Las Vegas.
Early Las Vegas (2003)
This website is a historical photographic collection related to the early history of Las Vegas, Nevada. This project contains six galleries: