In October 2017, SMU’s Central University Libraries uploaded 311 items into CUL Digital Collections.
Highlights include:
![Mineral Wells, Texas, where America drinks it's [sic] way to health., ca. 1930, Texas: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints, DeGolyer Library, SMU](https://blog.smu.edu/offtheshelf/files/2017/11/mineral-e1509554694953.jpg)
Mineral Wells, Texas, where America drinks it’s [sic] way to health., ca. 1930, DeGolyer Library, SMU.
A few items in this group represent specific and historically notable efforts at populating the state. One of these items is a pamphlet from the Franco-Texan Land Company, which was based in Weatherford and advertised in France. Other notable items include a pamphlet advertising home sites in Oak Cliff, which was created by the Dallas Land & Loan Company that founded the neighborhood; a broadside advertising Texas lands from the Ohio land agent, Henry H. Hannan; a promotional pamphlet for the city of Port Arthur, created by city founder, Arthur E. Stillwell, and published by his company, the Port Arthur Land Company; and a broadside promoting land in Kimble County printed on the stationery of Andrew Jackson Royal’s Texas Star Saloon in Junction City. Royal would later be elected sheriff of Fort Stockton, a career that culminated in his yet-unsolved assassination. Other notable figures include Knight Stith, a prominent citizen of Llano, and Judge Herman Henry Butz of Fort Stockton. Additional promotional materials include a pamphlet advertising the mineral-infused drinking water and health spas of Mineral Wells and broadsides featuring the prominent businesses of Del Rio and La Grange.
![[Construction Site, El Cuije Dam], ca. 1900s, DeGolyer Library, SMU](https://blog.smu.edu/offtheshelf/files/2017/10/Construction_Site_El_Cuije_Dam-e1507128487906.jpg)
[Construction Site, El Cuije Dam], ca. 1900s, DeGolyer Library, SMU.
![[Grand Basin, World's Columbian Exposition], 1893, DeGolyer Library, SMU](https://blog.smu.edu/offtheshelf/files/2017/10/Grand_Basin_Worlds_Columbian_Exposition-e1508949103603.jpg)
[Grand Basin, World’s Columbian Exposition], 1893, DeGolyer Library, SMU.
Copy of Report of Colonel Samuel Cooper…, June 14, 1851, a typescript copy of a report by Colonel Samuel Cooper, Assistant Adjutant General of the United States, of an inspection trip from Fort Graham, Texas, to the Indian villages near the Upper Fork of the Brazos River.
1 image, ca. 1880s, by Abel Briquet, from Collection of Abel Briquet Views of Mexico, of the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral.

Puerto de Mazatlan. ”Las Olas Altas.” Cerro del Vigia, el Creston, ca. 1860s, DeGolyer Library, SMU.
40 stereographs, ca. 1860s-1870s, from the Elmer and Diane Powell Collection on Mexico and the Mexican Revolution, of many locations throughout Mexico. Of particular interest is a stereograph of Creston Hill, the highest point and southernmost hill in Mazatlan, Mexico, and an elevated view of the city of Guanajuato taken from the nearby hill of San Miguel.
![[Floor Display Design Sketch for Australian Fortnight], 1986, DeGolyer Library, SMU](https://blog.smu.edu/offtheshelf/files/2017/10/Floor_Display_Design_Sketch_for_Australian_Fortnight-e1508945370774.jpg)
[Floor Display Design Sketch for Australian Fortnight], 1986, DeGolyer Library, SMU.
24 documents from Sir Ellice Victor Elias Sassoon Papers and Photographs, ca. 1931-1961. Included among these are letters written by Sir Victor to his sister-in-law, Giulia Ottoboni, and other friends and family. Sir Victor writes about the construction of his home in China, parties and gatherings he attended, and of the political turmoil in India during this time period. Also of note are several speeches given by Sir Victor, the memorial address given in Bombay after his death, and letters from his sisters congratulating him upon the occasion of his engagement.
![[Alan Alda and Roger Ebert, Audience Discussion, USA Film Festival, SMU], April 3, 1981, DeGolyer Library, SMU](https://blog.smu.edu/offtheshelf/files/2017/10/Alan_Alda_and_Roger_Ebert_Audience_Discussion_USA_Film_Festival_SMU-e1509365038442.jpg)
[Alan Alda and Roger Ebert, Audience Discussion, USA Film Festival, SMU], April 3, 1981, DeGolyer Library, SMU.
![[Striped Armchair], ca. 1941, DeGolyer Library, SMU](https://blog.smu.edu/offtheshelf/files/2017/10/Striped_Armchair-e1509131618407.jpg)
[Striped Armchair], ca. 1941, DeGolyer Library, SMU.
7 volumes have been added to the Southern Methodist University Rotunda Yearbooks collection. These yearbooks span the years 2006 through 2012.
1 lithograph, 1912, by Thomas Moran, featuring an image of the Grand Canyon in Arizona.