The UNLV Libraries Collection of Casino Promotional and Publicity Material (1966-2004) consists of clothing, promotional souvenirs, and gambling ephemera from various hotels and casinos throughout Las Vegas, Nevada. These items include hats, shirts, mugs, ash trays, drinking glasses, menus, buckets, keychains, keno supplies, and playing cards. The hotels include Caesar's Palace, Flamingo Hotel, Imperial Palace, Palace Station, Showboat, Castaways, Stardust, El Rancho, Sam's Town, Circus Circus, and Four Queens, in addition to others throughout Las Vegas.
The UNLV Libraries Collection of Casino Promotional and Publicity Material (1966-2004) consists of clothing, promotional souvenirs, and gambling ephemera from various hotels and casinos throughout Las Vegas, Nevada. These items include hats, shirts, mugs, ash trays, drinking glasses, menus, buckets, keychains, keno supplies, and playing cards. The hotels include Caesar's Palace, Flamingo Hotel, Imperial Palace, Palace Station, Showboat, Castaways, Stardust, El Rancho, Sam's Town, Circus Circus, and Four Queens, in addition to others throughout Las Vegas. The collection also features promotional materials from hotels outside of Las Vegas, such as the Ramada Express in Laughlin, Nevada; Cal Neva in Lake Tahoe, Nevada; and the Taj Mahal and Claridge Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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.
The materials remain in rough original order.
UNLV Libraries Collection of Casino Promotional and Publicity Material, 1966-2004. MS-00833. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Materials were periodically collected by the University Libraries Special Collections and Archives; accession number 2017-011. Materials were donated by Joan Levine in 2023; accession number 2023-041. There is only a deed of gift on file for a small portion of this collection.
In 2022, Kassidy Whetstone rehoused the materials and wrote the finding aid in ArchivesSpace. In 2023, Tammi Kim rehoused the 2023 addition and updated the finding aid.