CUL Digital Collections: November 2011

['Philadelphia' locomotive and tender], 1838
[‘Philadelphia’ locomotive and tender], 1838

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

The Famous Blockade Runner 'Hornet.' Aransas Pass, Texas., ca. 1920s
The Famous Blockade Runner ‘Hornet.’ Aransas Pass, Texas., ca. 1920s

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.

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