The city of Dallas has a long and tumultuous history with the Trinity River. Photographs now available online from SMU’s Edwin J. Foscue Map Library document a period when Dallas officials began the arduous process of trying to exert control over the river to prevent flooding and support development. The new Miscellaneous Aerial Views of…Continue Reading Trinity River Flood Control Depicted in Miscellaneous Aerial Views of Dallas, 1930s-1940s
Exhibit – Treasures of DeGolyer Library: 100 Years of Collecting
Travels in the Interior of North America … Karl Bodmer, artist Treasures of DeGolyer Library: 100 Years of Collecting Theodore de Bry (1528-1598) Americae Pars I-XIII Frankfurt, 1590-1634 The exhibition features rare treasures from DeGolyer Library’s major collecting areas of Western Americana, exploration and discovery, history of science, history of business, photography, transportation, and literary…Continue Reading Exhibit – Treasures of DeGolyer Library: 100 Years of Collecting
CUL Digital Collections Update: September 2013
In September 2013, CUL uploaded 1,086 items into our CONTENTdm collections. Highlights include: 60 photographs and prints in the newly-created Doris A. and Lawrence H. Budner Collection on Theodore Roosevelt. 410 slides in the Octavio Medellin: Works of Art and Artistic Processes collection, including new series for Reflections in Glass and Uplifting Force. 74 photographs…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections Update: September 2013