Hancock, Doris
Coll # 87-59
Date: 1915 - 1987
Extent 4 boxes (1 slim document box, 3 document boxes) 17.5 linear in.
Collection consists of the personal papers of Doris Hancock, a Las Vegas kindergarten teacher who helped organize the Las Vegas Art League. Collection contains material about Southern Nevada and surrounding areas, particularly mining towns, Colorado River, Boulder Dam, Red Rock Canyon, early Las Vegas and Death Valley. It also includes some of Hancock's school memorabilia, correspondence, sketches and two scrapbooks. COLLECTION GUIDE AVAILABLE

Houssels, Nancy
Coll # 97-11
Date: ca. 1990s
Extent 1 document box
Collection consists of newsletters, programs, posters, magazine articles, anniversary reports, and news clippings on the Nevada Dance Theatre (now Nevada Ballet Theatre).
Nancy Houssels co-founded the Nevada Dance Theatre with Vassili Sulich in 1974.

Janish, Jeanne Russell
Coll # 95-31
Date: 1917 - 1994
Extent 13 boxes (1 record storage box, 4 slim document boxes, 6 document boxes, 2 large flat
boxes)
Collection is comprised of the personal papers of Jeanne Russel Janish, a Nevada artist and illustrator noted for her botanical illustrations. Janish traveled widely in China as a young woman and produced numerous pencil drawings and watercolors of that country. In her later years, she focused on the American Southwest. She was a graduate of Vassar and held a Masters degree from Stanford. Material in this collection includes school report cards; detailed diaries from 1918-1964, 1968, and 1973; personal correspondence; family papers; and two original manuscripts. The collection also contains several publications pertaining to her and her husband's interests, craft materials, drawing tools, photocopies of dried flowers, watercolor paintings, and pencil sketches. COLLECTION GUIDE AVAILABLE

Las Vegas Art League
Coll # T105
Date: 1966-1967
Extent 1 record storage box
Collection contains the scrapbook for the Greater Las Vegas Art Week. Scrapbook includes newspaper clippings about the participating artists, photos of events and displays, and correspondence regarding the event.

Las Vegas Community Murals Project
Coll # T79
Date: 1977
Extent 1 slim document box
Collection consists of material relating to the Las Vegas Community Murals Project headed by artist Robert Beckman in 1977. Collection contains press releases, participant list, mural photographs, newsletters, and original colored designs and sketches of many of the murals. There are also notes on each mural which detail dimensions, artists, dates, and funding information.

Mann, Mildred
Coll # 96-10
Date: 1915-1995
Extent 12 boxes (10 document boxes, 2 slim document boxes) and 1 thin envelope (4.5 linear ft.)
Collection is comprised of the papers of Mildred Mann, a North Las Vegas resident and community activist. Mann was involved in state and national ceramic associations, and taught ceramic arts for many years in various venues, including to the visually impaired. Collection documents her involvement in teaching ceramics and her work with the International Order of Odd Fellows. It includes correspondence, clippings, certificates, manuals, photos, and newsletters. COLLECTION GUIDE AVAILABLE

Meadows Playhouse
Coll # T163
Date: 1968-1981
Extent 4 boxes (2 document boxes and 2 record storage boxes)
Collection houses the architectural plans for the Meadows Playhouse, a UNLV playhouse, and interdepartmental correspondence about designing a Theatre major, examples of other university Theatre major requirements, copies of plays with set design notes, notes on student actors, production playbills and newspaper clippings about upcoming productions.

Mercer, L. Paul
Coll # Mss46
Date: 1957 - 1972
Extent 6 folders (containing 161 items)
Collection consists of material relating to Paul Mercer's interest in the arts of spinning, dyeing, and weaving. It includes letters from fellow enthusiast, Fred A. Pennington, and his wife, Lulu. Also includes manuscript of Dye Formulas and Color Representations from the notes of Paul Mercer. INVENTORY AVAILABLE

National League of American Pen Women (Las Vegas Chapter)
Coll # 2000-06
Date: 1950-1990
Extent 2 boxes (1 record storage box, 1 flat box on roller shelves)
Collection consists of the scrapbooks and minutes of the Las Vegas branch of the National League of American Pen Women. The NLAPW is a professional organization of women that promotes development of the creative talents of professional women in the arts (it encompasses arts, letters and music).

Nevada Music Teachers Association
Coll # 85-123
Date: 1963 -1983
Extent 3 record storage boxes
Collection focuses on the work of the Nevada Music Teachers Association and Las Vegas piano teacher, Betty Henderson. The collection is comprised primarily of reel-to-reel tapes of auditions, recitals and concerts. Others materials include newsletters, sheet music, scrapbooks, photos, and programs. INVENTORY AVAILABLE

Nevada Poetry Society
Coll # T89
Date: 1960-1973
Extent 1 record storage box
Collection is comprised of the records of the Nevada Poetry Society. Society president, Mildred
Breedlove, features prominently in the collection. Materials include bank records, correspondence, financial documents, newsletters, poems and the book Silver Springs: Anthology of the Nevada Poetry Society. INVENTORY AVAILABLE

Nevada Watercolor Society
Coll # Roller Shelf #76
Date: 1968-1984
Extent 2 OVERSIZE boxes
Collection consists of scrapbook and clippings about local and visiting artists, exhibits and a watercolor painting of a hypothetical exhibit.

St. Denis, Ruth
Coll # 85-112
Date: 1905 - 1984
Extent 5 boxes (1 flat box and 2 large flat boxes located on the roller shelf and 1 document box, 1 record storage box)
The Ruth St. Denis Collection pertains to the St. Denis School of Dance in Los Angeles, CA. The collection contains scrapbooks filled with magazine cutouts from early 20th century- performers and celebrities. It also includes a variety of books on costume and dance. INVENTORY AVAILABLE

Sulich, Vassili
Coll # 2003-11
Date: 1950's - 1990's
Extent 10 record storage boxes
Collection consists of the personal papers and photographs of Croatian-born choreographer, Vassili Sulich, founder of the Nevada Dance Theatre, the first professional ballet company in Nevada. Includes materials from his time as a professional ballet dancer in Europe, and as dancer at the Follies Bergere at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas. Collection is comprised of photographs, news clippings, correspondence, programs, posters, scrapbooks, and various ephemera.

Vanda, Charles
Coll # 88-142
Date: 1955 -1987
Extent 3 boxes (2 record storage boxes, 1 slim document box)
The Charles Vanda Collection contains a variety of achievement awards, plaques, and certificates that were presented to Charles Vanda throughout his career. It also contains some news clippings and articles pertaining to Charles Vanda, the arts and UNLV. Vanda was a broadcasting pioneer and, after his retirement from CBS, a leader in the Las Vegas arts community. See inventory.

Willard, Bill Papers
Coll # 2001-17
Date: 1913-1999
Extent: 53 boxes (48 document boxes, 5 flat boxes)
Collection is comprised of the personal papers of Bill Willard, a writer, performer, artist, columnist and former director of the Arnold Shaw Popular Music Research Center. The collection is comprehensive and contains a variety of records relating to all areas of his life and interests. SEE ARNOLD SHAW ARCHIVIST FOR INVENTORY

Woods, Vivian
Coll # 95-16
Date: 1960 - 1991
Extent 1 document box and 1 slim document box
Collection contains the Las Vegas Art League scrapbooks, photo albums, correspondence to members about waning funds, a history of the Las Vegas Artist's Co-Op, and the Las Vegas Artist's Co-Op member rosters.

Young Audiences
Coll # T177
Date: 1960 - 1983
Extent 10 boxes (4 document boxes, 6 record storage boxes)
Collection contains the organizational records of the Young Audiences group. Materials include minutes, financial records, bylaws, photographs, projects, membership information, reports, publications, news clippings, and public relations material. INVENTORY AVAILABLE

Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO)
Coll # 98-12
Date: 1920-1995
Extent 33 document boxes
Collection documents the history of the Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO) and is comprised of numerous visual materials such as photographs, negatives, slides, transparencies and videotapes. Also contains correspondence, price books, drawings, calculations, newspaper and trade magazine articles on YESCO, and oral history interviews and audio recordings of YESCO designers and executives. COLLECTION GUIDE AVAILABLE