In the Media There was no summer break for the Jones Collection, as we continued our preservation efforts far below the Greer Garson Theatre. During these dog days of summer, keeping a cool 50 degrees in our temperature-controlled vault, we mined away into the deepest recesses of our archive and uncovered some truly…Continue Reading Jones Collection Summer 2019 Updates
In September 2019, SMU Libraries uploaded 563 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 31 photographs and real photographic postcards, ca. 1910-1920, from the American Border Troops at the Mexican Revolution collection, featuring images of American soldiers in camps around Texas and Mexico. These photographs portray the life soldiers experienced while on base at…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: September 2019
News from the DeGolyer Library October 2019 Southern Methodist University Visit our Website October is American Archives Month! Created by the Society of American Archivists in 2006, it gives archivists the chance to tell people about the work we do. Each October, we celebrate the value of historical records, and aim to increase public awareness…Continue Reading News from the DeGolyer Library October 2019
October can represent many things to different people. It can mean pumpkin spice flavored everything for those die-hard fans of the Starbucks PSL. It can mean watching scary movies, dressing in costumes and eating tons of candy for the Halloween enthusiasts. It is the start of cooler temperatures (hopefully) and the holiday season. But for…Continue Reading In October We Wear Pink…
Mary Vernon, professor emerita of art, SMU, was a colleague of Dan Wingren. As such, she contributes this blog piece on the artist and further commentary in the exhibition, Dan Wingren: The Image and Magic, on view at the Hamon Arts Library, 2nd floor, until May 31, 2021. “My head is somewhere near the…Continue Reading Dan Wingren: The Wizard
In August 2019, SMU Libraries uploaded 469 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. 7 oral history interviews from the Southern Methodist University Oral History Interviews and Digital Humanities Student Projects collection. These interviews, with Brittany Dickey, Christian Lanier, Dr. Klyne Smith, Diana Aguirre, Dr. Ruben Arellano, Dr. Evelyn Parker, and Peyton Woodson Cooper are part of…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: August 2019
News from the DeGolyer Library September 2019 Southern Methodist University Visit our Website Recent Events Opening Reception for “All Goes Onward and Outward” On Thursday, September 12th, we celebrated our latest exhibit, “All Goes Onward and Outward”: Walt Whitman at 200 . The exhibit is curated by Robert O. Harris, with items from his private collection. After…Continue Reading News from the DeGolyer Library September 2019
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
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
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…