This gallery contains a sampling of images that are available within the Photograph Collections of UNLV Special Collections. All photographs are property of UNLV Special Collections and cannot be reproduced without prior permission. For more information, please contact, Kathy War, Photo Archivist, at kathleen.war@unlv.edu. For more images, see the UNLV Special Collections Digital Collections and Exhibits page. |
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| Hoover Dam construction nearing completion (Collection # 0100, Photo # 0477). | Close-up of Las Vegas children in the snow (Collection # 0003, Photo # 0020). | Ranch house south wall of Las Vegas Fort (Collection # 0104, Photo # 0030). |
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| The Sands marquee shows the range of stars that appeared at the resort (Collection # 0287, Photo # 0393). | Dean Martin onstage--see more within the Dino at the Sands exhibit (Collection # 0287, Photo# 0420). | Las Vegas School, flag pole ceremony, ca 1915-16 (Collection # 0010, Photo 0023). |
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| Flamingo Hotel, exterior, night view (Collection # 0100, Photo # 1800). |
The Helldorado Parade was an annual event in Las Vegas for many years. Here are the Tropicana's showgirls, promoted as the "Eighth Wonder of the World" (Collection # 0245, Photo # 0004). | Championship table at the World Series of Poker, 1976, taken from the Binion's Horseshoe collection (Collection #0318, photo # 0057). |
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| First State Bank of Las Vegas. (c.1905) (Collection # 0214, Photo # 0166). | McCarran Field was the original air gateway to Las Vegas. Special Collections has many resources for Las Vegas's transportation infrastructure (Collection # 0049, Photo # 0004). | Southern Paiute wickiups, 1877 (Collection # 0171, Photo # 0272). |
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| Fremont Street at night, intersection, 2nd, looking west (Collection # 0100, Photo # 0020). | Revue show impresario Donn Arden shows his showgirls how its done. Arden brought the first topless revue, the Stardust's Lido de Paris, to the Strip in 1958 (Collection # 0328, Photo # 0149). | Craps game in the El Morroco on the Westside of Las Vegas in the 1950s, as detailed in the oral history of Clarence Ray (Collection # 0326, Photo # 0004). |
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