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 Club
– 96 photographs of the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco
– 12 Civil War cartes de visite
– 92 students newspapers from 1922-1923
– 6 sketches by Jerry Bywaters
– 39 aerial photographs, including Palm Beach, FL; Sandy Point, Long Island; and other estates, ca. 1930-1934, by Robert Yarnall Richie
– 209 early Texas postcards from the Eric Steinfeldt collection of maritime views digitized as part of the FY 2012 TexTreasures grant
Shown above left: [‘Philadelphia’ locomotive and tender, 1838, by Hermann Engel. Shown left: The Famous Blockade Runner “Hornet.” Aransas Pass, Texas, ca. 1920s.