The Young Audiences New York, Nevada Humanities Photograph Collection (approximately 1970-1979) contains black-and-white photographic prints, slides, and negatives of the Las Vegas, Nevada chapter of the Young Audiences New York arts organization. Images include scenes of concerts, workshops, and chapter outings at public parks. There are images of specific bands within the chapter such as the Brass Quintet, Vocal Quartet, and Woodwind Quintet. Lastly, there are images of celebratory banquets honoring members of the Las Vegas chapter.
The Young Audiences New York, Nevada Humanities Photograph Collection (approximately 1970-1979) contains black-and-white photographic prints, slides, and negatives of the Las Vegas, Nevada chapter of the Young Audiences New York arts organization. Images include scenes of concerts, workshops, and chapter outings at public parks. There are images of specific bands within the chapter such as the Brass Quintet, Vocal Quartet, and Woodwind Quintet. Lastly, there are images of celebratory banquets honoring members of the Las Vegas chapter.
Collection is open for research.
Materials in this collection may be protected by copyrights and other rights. See Reproductions and Use on the UNLV Special Collections and Archives website for more information about reproductions and permissions to publish.
Young Audiences New York is a non-profit organization that provides concerts and art workshops to students across the United States. It is a division of Young Audiences Incorporated Arts for Learning. The goal of Young Audiences is to enrich the lives of young children through exposure to the arts. The organization also provides employment and training for local musicians who worked and volunteered for the organization. Between the 1960s and 1980s, Young Audiences operated a Las Vegas chapter called Las Vegas Young Audiences Inc.
Source:
"Our Mission and History," Young Audiences New York. Accessed October 10, 2018. https://yany.org/about-us/
Young Audiences New York, Nevada Humanities Photograph Collection, approximately 1970-1979. PH-00175. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Materials were donated by Eli Schwartz in 1983; accession number 1983-064.
In 2020, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, James Howard wrote the finding aid and entered the data into ArchivesSpace.