Guided by a preoccupation with the subjectivity of facts, Elizabeth Moran uses photography, text, sound, and other forms of recorded documentation to examine the reliability of information and how evidence is often far from evident. Against the Best Possible Sources is part of an ongoing project including extensive research of the TIME, Inc. corporate archive…Continue Reading Hawn Gallery presents Elizabeth Moran: Against the Best Possible Sources opening Sept. 6
On view: Dan Wingren: The Image and Magic, August 19, 2019 – May 31, 2021
Dan C. Wingren, Jr. was born in Dallas, Texas in 1923. His family moved to a small farm outside of Irving, Texas in the 1930s during his second year in grade school; Wingren graduated from Irving High School in 1940. During World War II, he served in the army and was stationed in the South…Continue Reading On view: Dan Wingren: The Image and Magic, August 19, 2019 – May 31, 2021
Today I went to school…
When I was little I kept a diary. It was a small black diary with pictures of popcorn, candy, and admit one movie tickets on it. It had a little gold key that you used to open it (although if you lost the key, a paperclip could do the same). I’ve tried many times in…Continue Reading Today I went to school…
Maximum Marginalia
One of my favorite parts of working in a Special Collections library is finding books featuring marginalia—the notes and drawings that readers leave in the margins of books they’re reading. I’ve come across pristine handwriting and illegible scribbles, thoughtful commentary and brief notes, and drawings that ran the gamut from cute to comical to crude….Continue Reading Maximum Marginalia
SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: July 2019
In July 2019, SMU Libraries uploaded 684 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 233 national bank notes, ca. 1884-1929, added to the Rowe-Barr Collection of Texas Currency as part of the TexTreasures FY2019 grant program, sponsored by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: July 2019
News from the DeGolyer Library August 2019
News from the DeGolyer Library August 2019 Southern Methodist University Visit our Website New Exhibit “All Goes Onward and Outward” Walt Whitman at 200 Opening Soon The DeGolyer Library and renowned collector Robert Harris are marking the bicentennial of Walt Whitman’s birth with “All Goes Onward and Outward”: Walt Whitman at 200 . Mr. Harris has selected…Continue Reading News from the DeGolyer Library August 2019