The Historic Building Survey Photograph Collection (1970s-1982) contains color and black-and-white photographic prints and contact sheets of historic buildings in Nevada. Included in the collection are photographs of various churches, fire stations, houses, schools, casinos, motels, and other buildings primarily in the Las Vegas, Nevada area. The photographs are from Dr. Ralph Roske’s History 117 course taught at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
The Historic Building Survey Photograph Collection (1970s-1982) contains color and black-and-white photographic prints and contact sheets of historic buildings in Nevada. Included in the collection are photographs of various churches, fire stations, houses, schools, casinos, motels, and other buildings primarily in the Las Vegas, Nevada area. The photographs are from Dr. Ralph Roske’s History 117 course taught at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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.
Materials remain in original order.
Ralph Roske's History 117 course at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) focused on the history of Southern Nevada and surrounding areas. Students in the early-1970s through the mid-1980s created projects including oral history interviews, local business history tracings, and historic building surveys that collected the history of the region. The historic building surveys collected architectural histories of local sites that ranged from demolished cabins on public lands to businesses in the heart of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Historic Building Survey Photograph Collection, 1970s-1982. PH-00345. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Materials were donated in 1974 and 1977 by Ralph Roske; accession numbers 1974-76 and 1977-223.
In 2019, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Christina Lamoureux wrote the finding aid and entered the data into ArchivesSpace.