What do a sugar railway in Cuba, U.S. soldiers hunting Pancho Villa, and a priest blessing a taxi in Mexico have in common? They’re all part of a fascinating array of newly digitized materials now available in SMU’s Digital Collections. These rare materials, held by DeGolyer and Bridwell and digitized by the Norwick Center for…Continue Reading From rails to revolutions: New windows into the past in digital collections
In August 2025, the Norwick Center for Digital Solutions uploaded 259 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 22 photographs, 1882-1963, from the Collection of African American Photographs, showing Black people in Texas, including portraits and snapshots of social activities throughout the decades. Examples include a carte de visite portrait of Doc (D.) C….Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: August 2025
![[Illinois Central Railroad Storm Repair, 1915 New Orleans Hurricane], DeGolyer Library, SMU.](https://blog.smu.edu/smulibraries/files/2025/08/rwy_4165_Page_01-1024x740.jpg)
In July 2025, SMU Libraries uploaded 441 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 121 negatives, ca. 1933, from the Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection. Highlights include aerial images of many famous estates, including two mansions owned by Jessie Woolworth Donohue in Southampton and Palm Beach; three images of William K. Vanderbilt II’s Fisher Island property,…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: July 2025
![LaSalle Automobile, General Motors, [No. 2], ca. 1933, DeGolyer Library, SMU.](https://blog.smu.edu/smulibraries/files/2025/07/ryr_4486_large.jpg)
In June 2025, SMU Libraries uploaded 326 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 70 negatives, ca. 1933, from the Robert Yarnall Richie Photographs collection. Highlights include a series of promotional images for LaSalle automobiles, with some taken as reflections in a hubcap, and aerials of various estates primarily in the New York City…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: June 2025
In May 2025, SMU Libraries uploaded 224 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 94 film negatives, ca. 1936-1937, from the Robert Yarnall Richie Photographs collection. Highlights include a photograph of a man preparing to seal a keg at the Gulf Brewing Company in Houston and 20 photographs from the Imperial Sugar Company in Sugar Land, Texas,…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: May 2025
![Queen Mary & Normandie [No. 27], 1936, DeGolyer Library, SMU.](https://blog.smu.edu/smulibraries/files/2025/05/ryr_4383_large-1.jpg)
In April 2025, SMU Libraries uploaded 416 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 115 negatives, ca. 1936-1937, from the Robert Yarnall Richie Photographs collection. Highlights include 5 photographs from Merchants Distilling in Terre Haute, Indiana and a series of 32 images depicting the steamships RMS Queen Mary and SS Normandie, which were the…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: April 2025
In March 2025, SMU Libraries uploaded 322 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 18 programs, 1976-2007, from SMU’s annual literary festival were added to the SMU Campus Memories digital collection. These programs list a schedule of events and have short biographies of the many significant poets, novelists, and other literary figures who visited…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: March 2025
In February 2025, SMU Libraries uploaded 250 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: The new Rees-Jones Collection Highlights digital collection, which includes: 5 color aquatints, 1839-1841, from Karl Bodmer’s Travels in the Interior of North America, showing landscape scenes and imagery often relating to Indigenous peoples. 3 color lithographs, 1851, by Carl Nebel…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: February 2025
![Minnie Tom, Cedar [No. 4], ca. 1929-1930s, DeGolyer Library, SMU.](https://blog.smu.edu/smulibraries/files/2025/02/itk_613_medium.jpg)
In January 2025, SMU Libraries uploaded 308 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 40 negatives, ca. 1955-1957, from the Richard Steinheimer Photograph Collection. Subjects include a trip to Arizona and aerial photographs of the Glendale and La Crescenta areas of Los Angeles County. 128 items, ca. 1850-1950s, from the Elmer and Diane Powell Collection on…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: January 2025
In December 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded 478 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 86 negatives, ca. 1930s, from the Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection. Highlights include a series of 19 aerial views of private school campuses in New England, including St. Mark’s School, St. George’s School, and Taft School. Two programs, 1946 and 1948, from…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: December 2024