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Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Community Collection
The Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Community Collection (approximately 1973-2020) consists of artwork, memorabilia, ephemera, event fliers, and event photographs donated by members of the Latinx community in Las Vegas, Nevada and collected by staff members of the Oral History Research Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Materials were donated and collected as part of the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada oral history and community engagement project hosted by UNLV University Libraries. Some of the materials in this collection are related to oral history interviews for Lidia Bonilla, Horacio Lopez, Krystal Ramirez, and Gustavo Ramos. This collection also includes fliers and posters advertising events in the Latinx community, campaign signs for Latinx candidates running for office, and Spanish language campaign signs.
Archival Collection
Photograph of Nevada desert, circa 1940s
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University of Nevada, Las Vegas Solar Decathlon Records
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Solar Decathlon Records (2013-2021) are comprised of records documenting the University of Nevada, Las Vegas's participation in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Decathlon collegiate competition. The collection includes records created by the 2013, 2017, and 2020 UNLV teams (Team Las Vegas) in designing and building their respective competition entries: DesertSol, Sinatra Living, and Mojave Bloom. Records include competition application files, working project files, As-Built submittal packets, and promotional and marketing files for the competition. The majority of records in this collection represent the 2017 competition. Archived websites and social media accounts associated with Team Las Vegas and the Solar Decathlon competition are also included in the collection. The records document Team Las Vegas's efforts in designing and building energy efficient homes for the Solar Decathlon competition.
Archival Collection
Damaged Royal Nevada sign at a neon sign boneyard: photographic print
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Teddy Bears of Southern Nevada booth at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Paiute village in what is now known as southern Nevada: photographic print
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Wells and McGill, Nevada, 1940 to 1986
Materials contain photographic slides of neon signs in the towns of Wells, Nevada and McGill, Nevada from 1940 to 1986.
Collection Name: Neon in Nevada Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Photograph of Hotel Nevada (Las Vegas), 1912
The Hotel Nevada on the corner of Main and Fremont in 1912. Transcribed from the original: "Nevada Hotel - named Sal Sagev much later --Shirley Swanson." Wharton Drug Company named in the bottom left-hand corner of the postcard.
Site Name: Hotel Nevada
Address: 1 Fremont Street
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UNLV's Black Mountain Institute holds its Nevada Emerging Writers Series with poet Srikanth Reddy in Greenspun Hall November 16, 2011 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas: digital photographs
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UNLV hosts a reception kicking off the 2nd Annual NSHE Southern Nevada Diversity Summit in the Tam Alumni Center October 3, 2013 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas: digital photographs
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