News from the DeGolyer Library June 2023

News from the DeGolyer Library

June 2023

News & Notes

This year, we’ve been lucky to have project archivist Krishna Shenoy join the staff of the DeGolyer Library. Krishna has been processing the Ebby Halliday papers, and recently published the finding aid for the collection, which is featured below.

Krishna is a librarian and archivist experienced in museums, libraries, archives and private collections. Along with her work at the DeGolyer Library, she works as an Assistant Archivist for a private collection in the field of journalism. She is a longtime member of the Society of Southwest Archivists and the Metroplex Archivists and serves as the Secretary on the Public Library Board for the City of Grapevine, TX. She graduated from University of North Texas in 2014 with a Master of Library Science degree.

In addition to processing the Ebby Halliday papers, Krishna has written numerous blog posts about the famous realtor, which you can read by clicking the images and links below:

Ebby and SMU

Ebby may not have been an SMU Mustang, but this post traces her numerous ties to the university, through friends, family, and her support for the school

Ebby and M.L.S. Enter the Computer Age

Learn about how Ebby embraced the multiple listing service (MLS) and other technical advances to grow her firm

The Charm Offensive

To promote Dallas as a business center, city leaders and Charm magazine featured Ebby and other female industry leaders with the feature “She Works in Dallas”

Modern Love

Learn about the love story of Ebby and her husband, a former FBI agent who once wrote, “you are the light of my life. The Supreme Being must have been most pleased when he sent you to me–I love you dearly”

Ebby’s Christmas Greetings

Cool off from the heat with memories of colder days, via Ebby’s Christmas cards, sent out by her and her husband Maurice Acers over their decades of marriage.

Happy Birthday, Ebby!

Ebby marked her birthdays with style and grandeur, including celebrating with Dirk Nowitzki, being serenaded by the Pointer Sisters, and ‘Cirque du Ebby’

Exhibits

“I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere”: Collecting the Multilingual Canon

May 26th-September 22nd

The enduring appeal of fiction’s greatest detective is explored through selections from DeGolyer Library’s Donald J. Hobbs Collection, which contains more than 8,000 volumes and translations of the Sherlock Holmes canon in 108 languages.

8:30am to 5:00pm

Monday – Friday

Hillcrest Foundation Exhibit Hall, Fondren Library

New Collections

Recently Accessioned

A2023.0025c – Pennsylvania Railroad Company telegraph office log books

A2023.0026c – Manuscript volume of popular and traditional songs compiled by Emma S. Hofheinz

A2023.0027 – Gerald Wood collection on Horton Foote

A2023.0028c – The Indian raid in Young County, Texas, October 13, 1864 : typescript manuscript

A2023.0029c – A review of Kennedy’s Texas by D.G. Burnet

A2023.0030 – Jerry Haynes papers

A2023.0031c – Woman’s Federal Oil Company of America stock certificate

A2023.0032 – Downtown Dallas Republican Women’s Club records

A2023.0033 – Nichols, Norris, and Plumb family papers

A2023.0034c – Henry L. Strickland letters from Mexico

A2023.0035 – Thomas M. DeFrank papers

A2023.0036c – Armenonville, Paris, France menu inscribed by Theodore Roosevelt to Max Barthou

A2023.0037c – Morris Emanuel letter to Milton Brown

A2023.0038c – Yale Business College invoice book, wholesale merchandising, practical department

A2023.0039c – John Bradley letter to A.W. Hoyt

A2023.0040 – Richard M. Hewitt collection on securities fraud

A2023.0041 – Flexible Computer Corporation records

New Finding Aids

Ebby Halliday papers

Ebby Halliday was an American realtor and businesswomen and founder of Ebby Halliday Realtors, Inc. Her papers document her business activities, civic contributions, and personal life. Materials comprise: speeches, scrapbooks, correspondence, biographical information, awards, magazines, newsletters, advertisements, clippings and articles, photographs, minutes and agendas, and research files.

Jerry Haynes papers

Jerry Haynes was an actor from Dallas, Texas who was known as Mr. Peppermint, the star of a children’s show on WFAA-TV that aired from 1961-1996. Haynes was a working actor who performed in local plays, television shows, and motion pictures. His papers include scripts, subject files, clippings, and photographs.