In January, CUL uploaded 457 items into our CONTENTdm collections. CUL now has approximately 20,650 published items.
Below are highlights:
– 215 early Texas postcards digitized as part of the FY 2012 TexTreasures grant
– Views of Texas Photographed by S. B. Hill, ca. 1880s, uploaded into the Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs collection as part of the Summerlee Grant
– 64 currency notes in the Rowe-Barr Collection of Texas Currency
– 33 photographs from the Feldbahn-Uebung, Uelzen-Celle, 1892 portfolio
– 34 glass and film negatives, mostly lithographs, from the Collection of Railroad Negatives and 3 German locomotives from Hannoversche Maschinenbau-Actien-Gesellschaft locomotives
– 30 letters in the newly restructured Cantonment Burgwin Postings collection
– 7 cartes de visite from the Civil War era
– Homecoming 1950, a 17 minute video, into Southern Methodist University Campus Memories
– Mexican Mining & Smelting Company album, 1902, comprising 34 pages.
Shown above right: Henry Ward Beecher, ca. 1870s. Shown left: C. D. Cosner & Co. 10 cents (ten cents) private scrip, 1865, from Marion County.