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 portraits
– 37 photographs from Partridge’s Alaska photographs, 1887
– 18 items from the Locomotive builders’ photographs
– 39 prints from the Jerry Bywaters Collection on Art of the Southwest
– 186 items uploaded and/or annotated in the Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs collection
– 15 reproduction orders, including 8 photographs by Jack Kilby; a photo of Martin Luther King speaking at SMU in 1966; and 6 items from the Horton Foote collection.
– 20 aerial photographs from the 1930s, including Palm Beach and Long Island estates and the Empire State Building, by Robert Yarnall Richie
– 81 student newspapersfrom 1928
Shown above left: [General Sterling Price, Confederate States Army], watercolor, ca. 1860-1869. Above right: Cowboy Head, ca. 1940, by Jerry Bywaters.