The LVCVA’s Las Vegas News Bureau and the Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas, have captured the rich history of Las Vegas in their photo archives. The images range from celebrity photos to local birthday parties, and many of these images have never been identified. In the collaborative exhibition, “Las Vegas Lineup,” they are presenting their unidentified images to the public and asking members of the community to look at the photos and help identify their history!
Please stop by their table in the Milan Ballroom during Wednesday's NDSA reception.
Kelli Luchs has worked as an archivist, specializing in photographs and negatives, for the past nine and a half years. She has worked for the Las Vegas News Bureau, a division of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority for the past four and half years. Luchs has a bachelor’s in history from Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan and a master’s in Public History from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is a member of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and the Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists (CIMA). Luchs has several publications including, “An Interview with Marie McMillan: An Oral History,” “The New Guinea Campaign: A New Perspective Through the Use of Oral Histories,” and “Nightmare in New Guinea” a PBS documentary.
Ilana Short received a BA in Anthropology from the University of Tennessee, and an MA in Museum Studies from Johns Hopkins University. She began volunteering with a local historic site in high school, and decided early on that she wanted a career in museums. Currently, Ilana works as the Manager of Photography Collections at the Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas. However, she has experience with a wide variety of museum collections, and extensive work experience in both history and art museums.
