Year: 2011

In November, CUL uploaded 566 items into our CONTENTdm collections. Below are some highlights: – 29 items, mostly lithographs, from the Collection of Railroad Negatives –16 currency notes in the Rowe-Barr Collection of Texas Currency – 67 items in the McCord-Renshaw Performing Arts digital collection, including 31 photographs and  35 theater programs from the SMU Arden…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections: November 2011

In October, SMU’s Central University Libraries uploaded 401 items into our CONTENTdm collections. CUL now has approximately 19,300 published items. Below are some highlights from October 2011: – 19 items from the Inaugural celebration of the Mexico, Cuernavaca & Pacific Railway – 20 locomotive builders’ cards from Baldwin Locomotive Works – 7 photographs of Monterey…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections: October 2011

Southern Methodist University libraries added 477 items into our CONTENTdm collections in September. Central University Libraries now has approximately 19,000 published items. Below are some highlights from September: – 13 items from the Collection of Civil War and military cartes de visite and portraits – 6 items from the Alexander Gardner cartes de visite and…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections: September 2011

SMU Central University Libraries and Bridwell Library added 716 items into our digital collections in August. Below are some highlights from August: – 61 items from the Photographs of Q.S.T.S. “Lusitania” – 73 postcards from the Collection of cowboy postcards – 105 stereographs from the Collection of Carleton E. Watkins western stereoscopic views – 6 card…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections: August 2011

CUL Digital Collections has recently uploaded two photograph albums of the Lusitania and Mauretania passenger ships, held by Southern Methodist University’s DeGolyer Library. Photos of the Lusitania are part of the Photographs of Q.S.T.S. “Lusitania”. This album contains 59 photographs of exterior and interior views of the Cunard Steamship Company ship, R.M.S. Lusitania. The Lusitania, the…Continue Reading Lusitania and Mauretania Photos

A record 5,700 items were uploaded in July. A major portion of the items were 70 sketchbooks comprising 4,604 pages that were added to the Otis Dozier Sketchbooks collection. All 130 sketchbooks have now been cataloged and uploaded. This collection is a cooperative project with the Dallas Museum of Art. Below are some highlights from…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections: July 2011

CONTENTdm Collections   We added 621 items into our CONTENTdm collections in June. CUL now has 12,462 published items. Below are some highlights from April: – 20 Texas currency notes in John N. Rowe III Collection of Texas Currency – DeForrest Judd’s Mexico Sketchbook (37 pages) and Caddo Sketchbook (92 pages) in Texas Artists: Paintings,…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections: June 2011

Robert Yarnall Richie was a corporate industrial photographer, whose main body of work spans the 1930s-1970s. We are constantly amazed by the ingenuity of his photography. We are adding many more items to the Robert Yarnall Richie Photographs digital collection. The latest uploads include a series of negatives for S.K.F. Bearing, a wonderful photo of…Continue Reading More photos from Robert Yarnall Richie

There are many photos of American Indians in CUL Digital Collections. We recently added 9 postcards of American Indians, including three of Quanah Parker, into the Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs. Quanah Parker was a well-known Comanche chief, whose Caucasian mother was captured at a young age and raised by the tribe. CUL Digital…Continue Reading New Postcards of American Indians

May was a very busy month at CUL Digital Collections. In May 2011, we uploaded 20 items into our Flickr: The Commons account, including 2 related to Cinco de Mayo, 4 related to VE Day, 6 on the Mexican Revolution, and 8 from the Lawrence T. Jones photography collection. Shown left: El cinco de Mayo…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections: May 2011