The UNLV University Libraries Collection of Aerial Photographs (1943-2000) contains aerial photographic prints primarily of the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, as well as other locations outside of Las Vegas including Laughlin, Nevada and Arizona.
The UNLV University Libraries Collection of Aerial Photographs (1943-2000) contains aerial photographic prints of the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, as well as other locations outside of Las Vegas including Laughlin, Nevada and Arizona. Types of aerial photographs include oversized photographic prints created from airplane flights and satellite imagery, depicting flat and perspective views of cities and landscapes. Some photographs were been overlaid with labels denoting road names, landmarks, and city and state boundaries.
Collection is open for research.
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Materials are arranged chronologically.
UNLV University Libraries Collection of Aerial Photographs, 1943-2000. PH-00417. 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 2019-125. The "Las Vegas Cooper Aerial Book" series was donated in an unknown year by Fred Bachhuber, Professor and Professor Emeritus in the UNLV Department of Geoscience. In 2025, an additional "Las Vegas Cooper Aerial Book" was donated by Wanda Taylor; accession number 2025-055.
In 2019, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Jimmy Chang rehoused and arranged the materials, wrote the finding aid and entered the data into ArchivesSpace. In 2022, Sarah Jones added two folders of photographs to the collection. In 2025, Sarah Jones added an additional binder of Las Vegas Cooper Aerials into the collection.