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Southern Nevada Home Builders Association Records (MS-00894)

Abstract

The Southern Nevada Home Builders Association (SNHBA) records represent the residential construction industry organization's activities from 1974 to 2015. The collection is primarily comprised of copies of SNHBA's newsletter, The Silver Spike, member directories, and event working files and photographs. The collection also includes working files for the awards presented by SNHBA to local home builders on excellence and design in home building: the Homer Awards and Silver Nugget Awards. Working files of SNHBA staff are also found in this collection for committee work, event planning, legislative issues, correspondence, and membership files.

Finding Aid PDF

Date

1974-2015

Extent

6.58 Cubic Feet (16 boxes, 1 shared box)
7.16 Linear Feet
16,735 digital_files (5.83 GB)

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Scope and Contents Note

The Southern Nevada Home Builders Association Records is comprised of records (1974-2015) from the Southern Nevada Home Builders Association (SNHBA), a local trade organization representing the residential construction industry in the state of Nevada. The collection is primarily comprised of copies of SNHBA's newsletter, The Silver Spike, member directories, event working files and photographs. The collection also includes working files for the awards presented by SNHBA to local home builders on excellence and design in home building: the Homer Awards and Silver Nugget Awards. The collection also includes several optical discs which contain working files for SNHBA staff members. Working files represent staff work on committees, event planning, legislative issues, correspondence, and membership files.

Access Note

Collection is open for research. Arrangements must be made in advance in order to access digital files; please contact UNLV Special Collections and Archives for additional information.

Publication Rights

Materials in this collection may be protected by copyrights and other rights. See Reproductions and Use on the UNLV Special Collections and Archives website for more information about reproductions and permissions to publish.

Arrangement

Materials remain in the order they were received.

Biographical / Historical Note

The Southern Nevada Home Builders Association (SNHBA) was founded in 1953 in Las Vegas, Nevada and is the oldest and largest local trade organization representing the residential construction industry in the state of Nevada. SNHBA members represent all facets of the homebuilding industry. The organization provides benefits such as networking opportunities, access to the latest local and national market trends and statistics, and educational seminars. SNHBA is host to annual awards programs like the Silver Nugget Awards and Homer Awards which honor excellence in design and professionalism in the local home building industry. SNHBA's headquarters are located in Las Vegas, Nevada and they have over 500 members.

Preferred Citation

Southern Nevada Home Builders Association Records, 1974-2015. MS-00894. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.

Acquisition Note

Materials were donated in 2018 by the Southern Nevada Home Builders Association; accession number 2018-029.

Processing Note

These records were minimally processed during accessioning. A brief box-level summary was created by Tammi Kim in 2018 at the time of accessioning. The materials were quickly reviewed to provide a general description of the contents of each box and an estimate of dates represented in the material. Digital files were transferred off of optical discs and a floppy disk. Digital files were reviewed for de-duplicatation. No other work has been performed on the materials.

Resource Type

Records

EAD ID

US::NVLN::MS00894

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