The Sarah Vinci Photograph Collection (approximately 1920-1991) consists of black-and-white photographic prints and negatives. The images depict Fremont Street in Las Vegas, Nevada, highlighting the changes over the years. Other images include the artesian well at the Cragin family home and Methodist churches in Las Vegas.
The Sarah Vinci Photograph Collection (approximately 1920-1991) consists of black-and-white photographic prints and negatives. The images depict Fremont Street in Las Vegas, Nevada, highlighting the changes over the years. Other images include the Artesian well at the Cragin family home and Methodist Churches in 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 as they were received.
Sarah Vinci was born just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1991. Vinci is known for her photographic project, "Las Vegas 1905-1950: A Photographic Survey." Vinci lived in Long Beach, California as of 2005.
Source:
White, Ken. "Through the Years." Las Vegas Review-Journal (NV), January 1, 2005: 43J. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current. https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/10B9D5D25E9865C0.
Sarah Vinci Photograph Collection, approximately 1920-1991. PH-00268. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Materials were received in 1992; accession number 1992-026.
In 2020, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Ryan DiPaolo wrote the finding aid and entered the data into ArchievsSpace.