June 5, 2024

SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: May 2024

Publication date June 5, 2024
Categories: Digital Collections
Categories: TexTreasures2024

[Railroad Standoff, No. 3450], ca. 1910-1920, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

In May 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded or enhanced 225 items in SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 48 negatives, ca. 1950-1954, by Richard Steinheimer, from the Richard Steinheimer Photograph Collection. Subjects include the entrance to Angels Flight Railway in Los Angeles, California, and Southern Pacific train no. 3672 at night. 46 postcards, ca. 1906-1960, from the…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: May 2024

Early Yosemite Photographs

Publication date June 5, 2024
Categories: Rees-Jones Library of the American West, Special Collections

Carleton Watkins photograph of El Capitan, Yosemite Valley (1861)

Yosemite: The Manchester Album The Rees-Jones Collection expands its holdings in masterworks by pioneering photographers of the American West with the recent acquisition of Yosemite: The Manchester Album. The unique compilation of 25 mammoth-plate images, captured by Carleton Watkins between 1861 and 1867, includes beautifully composed views of Half Dome, Cathedral Rocks, El Capitan and…Continue Reading Early Yosemite Photographs