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digitized Las Vegas yearbooks from Special Collections and Archives

Special Collections and Archives also has high school yearbooks from Las Vegas High School (Boulder Echo, Wildcat Echo, Echo), Sunset High School, Western High School (Epitaph), and Bishop Gorman (Archive).

Image of the Stewart Family from the Las Vegas Centennial digital collection, original in UNLV Libraries Special Collections.

Research in Nevada by Stefani Evans
Call Number: Lied Library Special Collections F840 .E93 2020
ISBN: 1935815474
Publication Date: 2020
Research in Nevada discusses Nevada’s land records and the Desert Land, Homestead, and Taylor Grazing Acts. Water and mining records are noted as are records from the Great Depression including the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Enrollee Records and works created by the Works Projects Administration. Evans also includes records of brands as well as resources to aid genealogists interested in researching ancestors who worked on the construction of the Hoover (Boulder) Dam or lived in Boulder City during that time.
Hill-Donnelly Cross Reference Directory
Call Number: Special Collections and Archives main reading room.
Print copies of criss cross directories for Las Vegas, 1977-2008, available in Special Collections and Archives main reading room.
Nevada Biographical and Genealogical Sketch Index by J. Carlyle Parker; Janet G. Parker
Call Number: Lied Library Special Collections Z1309 .P37 1986
ISBN: 0934153027
Publication Date: 1986