CUL Digital Collections Update: November 2012

New additions to CUL Digital Collections in November 2012

In November 2012, CUL uploaded 640 items into our CONTENTdm collections. CUL now has approximately 28,940 published items.

Highlights include:

92 Texas-related oil negatives by Robert Yarnall Richie as part of the TexTreasures FY2013 grant

38 negatives by Robert Yarnall Richie, including 14 aerial views of mansions and other places in New York and 18 negatives of musicians in the Houston Symphony Orchestra from October 1940

The Cunard Express Steamer “Lusitania” pamphlet, 1906

57 early campus newspapers in the Southern Methodist University Student Newspapers collection

Photographic views of Sherman’s campaign, from negatives taken in the field, ca. 1864-1866, by George Barnard, containing 61 prints and an accompanying booklet.

33 photographs showing various scenes in Alaska and Canada during the Gold Rush of the late 1890s

Hunting journal, 1877, a 94-page document by Algernon Heber Percy and his wife

179 slides in Octavio Medellin: Works of Art and Artistic Processes

10 images from the El Paso, Texas and Paseo del Norte, Mexico photographs

59 documents in the Cantonment Burgwin Postings collection

10 cards from the Baldwin Locomotive Works builder’s cards

Shown above right: Bow view – ‘”Lusitania” from the The Cunard Express Steamer “Lusitania” booklet, 1906, uploaded this month. Shown above left: Watercolor from page 65 of Hunting Journal, 1877.