CUL Digital Collections Update: May 2013

In May 2013, CUL uploaded 468 items into our CONTENTdm collections.

Highlights include:

[Two women, possibly sisters], ambrotype, ca. 1855-165
[Two women, possibly sisters], ambrotype, ca. 1855-165

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

35 negatives by Robert Yarnall Richie that are not related to Texas oil.

4 Civil War-era photographs and cased images

San Francisco album: photographs of the most beautiful views and public buildings of San Francisco, 1856, by G.R. Fardon

Union Pacific Railroad illustrations, 1869, by Andrew J. Russell

Costilla Estates Development Company, San Luis, Colorado Photographs, April, 1909

20 photographs of New Mexico and Arizona, including the Grand Canyon by William Henry Jackson and 31 photographs of San Antonio by Mary Jacobson from the Album of views of Arizona, New Mexico and the southwest, 1892

7 photographs by Carleton Watkins of Photographs of Weber Canon and Echo City, Utah

10 stereoviews from the Collection of Civil War era stereographs

Train at the Devil's Slide, 1873, by Carleton E. Watkins
Train at the Devil’s Slide, 1873, by Carleton E. Watkins

6 Panama Canal photographs from the David Goodyear Collection of Foreign Railroad Photographs

30 letters, documents, and photographs from the George Albert Converse Papers and Photographs, 1861-1897

6 photographs from the American border troops and the Mexican Revolution

2 Fred Harvey-related booklets on the company’s Indian and Mexican building.

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