 Dean Martin in a George Sydney photograph from the classic Copa days. The Sands Collection has some of Special Collections' best known photos. |
About the CollectionsSpecial Collections maintains a photograph collection of over 70,000 individually cataloged images, including black and white and color prints, slides, negatives, color transparencies and glassplates. All types of Las Vegas urban scenes are represented, casinos and hotels (both interior and exterior), other buildings, street scenes, construction, people, events, the UNLV campus. The department also maintains a nearly comprehensive series of aerial photographs of Las Vegas and environs from the early 1970s to the present. The photograph collections as a whole date from the turn of the century and are particularly significant in documenting the physical culture and evolution of the city from the late 1940s through the 1970s. |
Access to the Collection
Special Collections maintains a name, location, and subject card index for the photograph collections as well as browsing copies of individual photographs. We are currently developing online databases of the photographs.
Reproduction of Photographs
Photographic reproductions of material in Special Collections are available upon request. Reproductions are produced on campus by the university's Creative Services department, and a fee schedule is available in the department. The following conditions apply to photographic reproductions:
- In addition to the reproduction costs, a use fee will be charged based on the nature of use (i.e. commercial or academic).
- No use fee is charged for one-time use in student papers, theses, university publications, scholarly publications, or by non-profit organizations or local newspapers and television stations.
- Special arrangements for the duplication of film or video may be required, and fees for the use of video or film are set according to the specific material and use required. Fees may be charged for videotaping and scanning of images, however, Special Collections does not provide scanning of images.
Please note that anyone requesting copies of images in ANY format must sign a use agreement before any copies will be provided. Legal use of the image is permitted only according to the terms of the agreement.
| Online image use policy |
| Following
university policy and general tenets of copyright and fair
use, online images from UNLV Special Collections may not be
used without 1) prior authorization from Special Collections staff and 2) clear attribution to UNLV Special Collections, including a link to UNLV Special Collections, the Gaming Studies Research Center, or the page from which the original image was taken. |
To request copies or for further information, please contact Kelli Luchs at kelli.luchs@unlv.edu or (702) 895-2247.