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Las Vegas Senior Tripsters Records (MS-01037)

Abstract

The Las Vegas Senior Tripsters Records (1984-2020) are comprised of organizational records for the Las Vegas Senior Tripsters, an organization based in Las Vegas, Nevada that sponsored leisure travel for senior citizens. The collection includes articles of incorporation, bylaws, and board meeting agendas and minutes. The majority of the collection documents the Las Vegas Senior Tripsters working files used for trip planning, managing memberships, budgets, and the board president's records. The files in this collection are entirely digital.

Date
1984 to 2020
Extent
12,782 digital_files (8.46 GB) ACCDB, BCC, BMP, CONFIG, CSS, DAT, DB, DLL, DOC, DOCM, DOCX, DVF, EST, EXE, GIF, GPX, HTM, ICO, INI, JPG, JS, LNK, MDB, OPX, OXPS, PDF, PNG, PUB, RTF, TIF, TMP, TXT, WPD, XLS, XLSM, XLSX, XLTM, SLTX, ZDL, ZDS, ZIP
Related People/Corporations
Scope and Contents Note

The Las Vegas Senior Tripsters Records (1984-2020) are comprised of organizational records for the Las Vegas Senior Tripsters, an organization based in Las Vegas, Nevada that sponsored leisure travel for senior citizens. The collection includes articles of incorporation, bylaws, and board meeting agendas and minutes. The majority of the collection documents the Las Vegas Senior Tripsters working files used for trip planning, managing memberships, budgets, and the board president's records. The files in this collection are entirely digital.

Access Note

Collection is open for research. Arrangements must be made in advance to access digital files; please contact Special Collections and Archives for additional information.

Publication Rights

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.

Arrangement

Materials remain as they were received.

Biographical / Historical Note

The Las Vegas Senior Tripsters were a non-profit group based in Las Vegas, Nevada that specialized in leisure travel for senior citizens. The Las Vegas Senior Tripsters originally started in 1984 to plan and host trips across the United States and around the world. The organization closed in April 2020.

Source:

Las Vegas Senior Tripsters. "About Us." Las Vegas Senior Tripsters. January 30, 2019. Web. Accessed January 19, 2021. https://www.lvseniortripsters.com/midlevel/about.htm. Internet Archive. https://web.archive.org/web/20190130230859/https://www.lvseniortripsters.com/midlevel/about.htm.

Preferred Citation

Las Vegas Senior Tripsters Records, 1984-2020. MS-01037. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.

Acquisition Note

Materials were donated in 2020 by Sam Pincus; accession number 2020-095.

Processing Note

This collection is unprocessed. In 2021, Tammi Kim accessioned the collection and created the finding aid in ArchivesSpace.

Resource Type
Records
Collection Type
EAD ID
US::NVLN::MS01037
Appraisal Note

Tammi Kim performed minimal appraisal on the digital files during accessioning. Duplicate and website files were removed.

Finding Aid Description Rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
English