In August 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded or enhanced 270 items in SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 12 promotional brochures, 1925-1989, were added to the Southern Methodist University Campus Memories collection. These items, spanning the 1920s to the 1980s, feature facts about and images of SMU’s campus and student life. 20 oral history transcript excerpts,…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: August 2024
SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: July 2024
In July 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded or enhanced 412 items in SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 24 drawings, ca. 1870-1897, from the William Halsey Locomotive Drawings collection. These drawings, which are some of the few examples which show the colors used to decorate locomotives during the period, were a gift from Dee Young and…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: July 2024
Campaign Pins and Presidential Elections
We dug through the Hervey Priddy Collection of American Presidential and Political Memorabilia digital collection to find examples of political messaging from a time when the medium was slower, and the attacks could be just as nasty as they are today. From the Willie Horton ad to “It’s the Economy, Stupid,” to swift boats and…Continue Reading Campaign Pins and Presidential Elections
SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: June 2024
In June 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded 304 items in SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 47 negatives, ca. 1950s, from the Richard Steinheimer Photograph Collection. Subjects include a Muni bus at San Francisco’s “Playland at the Beach”, the Key System Transit Line in Oakland, California, and a colored image of a Santa Fe train at a station….Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: June 2024
SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: May 2024
In May 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded or enhanced 225 items in SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 48 negatives, ca. 1950-1954, by Richard Steinheimer, from the Richard Steinheimer Photograph Collection. Subjects include the entrance to Angels Flight Railway in Los Angeles, California, and Southern Pacific train no. 3672 at night. 46 postcards, ca. 1906-1960, from the…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: May 2024
SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: April 2024
In April 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded or enhanced 349 items in SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: The JCPenney Collection was created and added to SMU Libraries Digital Collections, with 92 items in the inaugural upload. The collection will feature items from James C. Penney’s papers in addition to corporate records and materials, including photographs…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: April 2024
JCPenney joins digital collections
Over 122 years ago, James C. Penney opened his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming. We have launched a new digital collection of photographs of JCPenney stores, photographs of Mr. Penney or his projects, and a sampling of the first JCPenney newspaper for associates (employees) called The Dynamo. SMU received the JCPenney collections in 2004. The…Continue Reading JCPenney joins digital collections
SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: March 2024
In March 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded 236 items in SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 23 documents and imprints, 1872-1950, comprising 1505 pages, were added to the Texas: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints digital collection. The items include three volumes of the History of the Dallas Federation of Women’s Clubs, and a 1950 city directory of…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: March 2024
SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: February 2024
In February 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded and/or updated 250 items in SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 8 photographs, ca. 1840-1930, from Portraits and People of Mexico. Subjects include members of the Special Mexican Claims Committee and President Emilio Portes Gil’s inauguration of the Statistics Congress in 1930. 48 negatives, ca. 1952-1959, from the Richard Steinheimer Photograph…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: February 2024
SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: January 2024
In January 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded and/or updated 348 items in SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 5 interviews were added to the SMU Oral History and Digital Humanities Student Projects collection. These interviews, with Vicki Blanton, Sean Cordobés, Tyne Dickson, Marcus S. Duron, and Andrea Nguyen, are part of the Voices of SMU project….Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: January 2024