In December, SMU’s Central University Libraries uploaded 401 items into our CONTENTdm collections. CUL now has approximately 20,200 published items. Below are highlights:
– 57 issues of early SMU student newspapers
– 86 early Texas postcards digitized as part of the FY 2012 TexTreasures grant
– 56 currency notes in the Rowe-Barr Collection of Texas Currency
– 16 photographs from the Hamburg-Amerika line ships, ca. 1888-1894
– 30 glass and film negatives, mostly lithographs, from the Collection of Railroad Negatives
– 8 slides of the Gold Bird sculpture by Octavio Medellin
– 50 negatives, including 25 of mansions mainly in Palm Beach, Florida, ca. 1930-1934, by Robert Yarnall Richie
– 7 cartes de visite from the Civil War era
– 90 items were annotated and/or uploaded in the Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs collection, including 68 postcards.
Shown above left: Cartoon from the May 21, 1921, issue of The Campus, Student Newspaper of Southern Methodist University. Shown right: Mexia On Fire, Night of Jan. 14, 1922 was one of the early Texas postcards digitized in December.
I noticed with excitement that your Civil War cartes de visite are available to be used with the proper citation added. Thank you very much for making these images available to researchers and students of the Civil War. I’ll be bookmarking this site as a potential place to find images of Civil War generals who participated in the Siege of Petersburg.