In October 2012, SMU Central University Libraries uploaded 624 items into CUL Digital Collections. CUL now has approximately 28,300 published items.
Highlights include:
47 Texas-related oil negatives by Robert Yarnall Richie as part of the TexTreasures FY2013 grant
38 negatives by Robert Yarnall Richie, including aerial views of Palm Beach and other estates, as well as family photos
57 photographs and real photographic postcards from the Brehme Photographs of Mexico
32 aerial photographs from the Foscue Map Library’s Dallas Aerial Photographs, 1945 USDA Survey
27 photographs and sketches from the Belo Records, 1888-2007, including 22 portrait drawings of Belo executives and journalists, by artist John Knott
266 slides in Octavio Medellin: Works of Art and Artistic Processes
36 items from the Manning Texas and Mexico Collection, including five aerial photographs of Tampico and Veracruz by the Fairlchild Aerial Survey, and 31 postcards of Mexican volcanos, street scenes, and people.
114 early campus newspapers in the Southern Methodist University Student Newspapers collection
6 cartes de visite and stereoviews relating to the Civil War
Shown above right: [Sabine Transportation oil tanker, ”Brazos”], 1956, Port Arthur, TX, by Robert Yarnall Richie, was uploaded as part of the TexTreasures FY2013 grant. Shown left: Col. A.H. Belo, drawing by John Knott, 1944.