CUL Digital Collections Update: December 2014

In December 2014, SMU Central University Libraries uploaded 302 items into CUL Digital Collections. CUL now has approximately 41,766 published items.

Highlights include:

99 Texas railroad negatives from the Everett L. DeGolyer Jr. Collection of United States Railroad Photographs as part of the TexTreasures FY2015 grant depicting Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company locomotives and cars as well as Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad locomotives between 1937-1976. The images were taken by Everett L. (Everett Lee) DeGolyer, 1923-1977, William Oliver Gibson, James E. Bowie, Robert William Richardson, and Charles Shelly Van Winklein at various locations in Texas, including Childress, Wichita Falls, Cleburne, Temple, Texline, Hodges, Houston, Fort Worth, Dallas, Gainesville, and Amarillo.

13 negatives from the Linwood W. Moody photographs, ca. 1920-1935, of the Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad.

6 photographs of Southern Pacific Railroad locomotives and trains from the Everett L. DeGolyer Jr. collection of United States railroad photographs. Images include the “Daylight” trains, which ran during the daytime between San Francisco and Los Angeles beginning in 1937; the first passenger train to enter the new Arcade Station in Los Angeles in 1915; and the celebration of the 50th Anniversary in 1915 of the “Golden Spike” connecting the railroad between Los Angeles and San Francisco in Lang, CA.

42 photographs from the Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs, including 30 cartes de visite and tintypes from the John J. Haynes Family Album and 12 additional items.

1 pamphlet created by Teller Reservoir and Irrigation Company between 1909-1910 titled, Pueblo Gardens: Irrigated Farms, Sure Crops, Large Yields, Low Price, Easy Terms. The pamphlet advertised the benefits of farming in Pueblo Gardens, formerly Teller Pasture, because of irrigation that would be available when the nearby Teller Reservoir construction in Pueblo, Colorado, was completed.

138 shop drawings from Box 05 and Box 06 from the Potter Art Iron Studios Collection . Drawings consist of outdoor furniture, garden structures, gazebos, benches, chaise lounges, gliders, plant containers, flowerpots, stands, carts, chairs, sofas, seating, beds, tables, storage furniture, shelving, counters, bars, gates, doors, railings, fences, and grilles.

4 SMU Basketball programs, 1927-1941.