SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: March 2024

In March 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded 236 items in SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include:

23 documents and imprints, 1872-1950, comprising 1505 pages, were added to the Texas: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints digital collection. The items include three volumes of the History of the Dallas Federation of Women’s Clubs, and a 1950 city directory of Borger in two parts. This project was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services and Texas State Library and Archives Commission (Grant Number LS-253655-OLS-23).

45 negatives, ca. 1949-1956, from the Richard Steinheimer Photograph Collection. Subjects include Maureen “Little Mo” Connolly playing tennis, ca. 1953, at La Jolla.

7 drawings, 1905-1924, from the Collection of Baldwin Locomotive Works Records, including detail and erecting card drawings W.G. Irwin & Co.; Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway; Atlantic Coast Line, and Pontiac; Oxford & Northern.

78 items, ca. 1878-1950s, by W. H. and R. F. Wiseman, from the Rufus Frank Wiseman Photographs collection. Subjects include a variety of family photographs and the 1908 Hico flood.

5 interviews were added to the SMU Oral History and Digital Humanities Student Projects collection. These interviews, with Ruth Demissie, Ace Gardner, Hannah Grant, Alan Gudiel, and Ian Perkins-Smith, are part of the Voices of SMU project.

75 postcards, 1907-1973, from the Lisa Stone Collection on Mercedes, Texas, were added to the Texas: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints collection. Highlights include a number of items related to the citrus fruit industry, which was prominent in the area, and several images of local churches.

1 photograph, ca. 1890-1895, by Thomas J. Cockrell, from Texas and Mexican Views, depicting a barrilero, or cooper (barrel maker).