The Howard Schwartz Collection on Gaming documents the gaming industry in the United States from 1966 to 2010. The collection includes manuscripts, periodicals, newspaper articles, ephemera, profit and probability profiles and a report from the National Gambling Impact Study Commission.
The Howard Schwartz Collection on Gaming documents the gaming industry in the United States from 1966 to 2010. The collection includes manuscripts, periodicals, newspaper articles, ephemera, profit and probability profiles and a report from the National Gambling Impact Study Commission.
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.
Howard Schwartz is a notable gaming expert in Las Vegas, Nevada having served as editor, manager, and Marketing Director of the Gambler's Book Club, and as of 2014 as the Director. Schwartz was born in 1940 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Montana, a master's degree in Science Writing from Kansas State University, and a second master's from the University of Northern Colorado in Secondary Education. He worked as a high school reading instructor before becoming an editor for the Gambler's Book Club in 1989, where he worked on several of their gaming magazines. The Gambler's Book Club was founded in 1964 by John and Edna Luckman as a place of learning for gamblers. Also referred to as the Gambler's Bookshop, the Club is located on South Eastern Avenue in Las Vegas, Nevada as of 2022.
Howard Schwartz Collection on Gaming, 1966-2010. MS-00104. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Nevada, Nevada.
Materials were donated by Howard Schwartz in 2014; accession number 2014-021.
The collection was minimally processed by Tom Sommer in 2014 at the time of accessioning. Material is described at the box level. The material was quickly reviewed to provide a general description of the contents of each box and an estimate of dates represented in each box. Loose documents were foldered. No further work was performed on the materials. In 2022, Kyle Gagnon relabeled folders to current professional standards.