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Local History

View images of historic Henderson in our BMI collection or the St. Rose collection.

• BMI Collection
• St. Rose Collection

The UNLV Web and Digitization Services Department have compiled historical maps of the region in their project Southern Nevada and Las Vegas: History in Maps.

• Veterans History Project

Henderson Libraries has participated in the Veterans History Project run by the Library of Congress.  Our staff have interviewed and recorded our local military veterans which you can read in transcript format.

• Kenneth Allen  PDF
• Pasquale Angelone PDF
• Ronald J. Coulston PDF
• Arthur Eichorn PDF
• Abe Ginsberg PDF
• Jared Holly PDF
• Robert Hudson PDF
• Lou LaPorta PDF
• Ray Mertz PDF
• James Norman PDF
• Parke Potter PDF
• Marty Schlessinger PDF
• Charles Siegel PDF
• Charles Spadaro PDF
• Ed St. John, Part 1 | Part 2
• Robert Teielbaum PDF
• Bill Zahm PDF

Henderson Libraries Veteran's Oral History Project is funded by a Library Services and Technology Grant, Administered for the United States Government by the Nevada State Library and Archives. 

Transcription services provided by
Same Day Transcriptions, Inc.

Transcriptions are available in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Free Adobe Readers are available for download at http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/.