SMU football fans are celebrating the team’s first ACC season with a playoff against Penn State University this week. The Mustangs and Nittany Lions have only met twice in their long history. The 1948 Cotton Bowl Classic ended in a tie, and Penn State won the 1978 game at home. SMU’s first football game…Continue Reading Pony Up! Over a century of SMU football
In November 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded 330 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 138 negatives, ca. 1930s, from the Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection. Highlights include a series of images of the American Radiator Building (today the Bryant Park Hotel) in New York City and images from the Texas State Fair in the centennial year of 1936….Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: November 2024
In October 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded 306 items in SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 116 prints and transparencies, most ca. 1930s-1950s, from the Robert Yarnall Richie Photographs. Highlights include three photographs of men working at Dugan Bakeries as well as 80 images of oil facilities and daily life on oil refinery compounds, which were taken for…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: October 2024
Annette Becker, director of the Texas Fashion Collection (TFC) at the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design, recently found photographs of interest within the collections at SMU’s DeGolyer Library. Housed within the library’s abundance of manuscripts, maps, photographs and rare documents are the Stanley Marcus Papers. The collection is comprised of…Continue Reading Dallas Fashion History in the Archives
![[Electric Theater and JCPenney, Springfield, Missouri], 1943, DeGolyer Library, SMU.](https://blog.smu.edu/smulibraries/files/2024/10/jcp_433_large.jpg)
In September 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded 345 items in SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 73 photographs and illustrations, ca. 1920s-1980s, from the J. C. Penney Company Records. Highlights include a series of photographs taken to show where the Kirksville, MO, store location was being expanded, including two images of the construction, and a photograph…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: September 2024
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
![[John Wesley to Alexander Knox, 1776 December 5], Bridwell Library, SMU.](https://blog.smu.edu/smulibraries/files/2024/08/jwl_222_large.jpg)
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
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
![With Arthur Luckhaus in France, [Page 43], ca. 1910-1919, DeGolyer Library, SMU.](https://blog.smu.edu/smulibraries/files/2024/07/eaa_2751_large.jpg)
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
![[Railroad Standoff, No. 3450], ca. 1910-1920, DeGolyer Library, SMU.](https://blog.smu.edu/smulibraries/files/2024/06/pwl_2634_large.jpg)
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