SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: May 2024

In May 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded or enhanced 225 items in SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include:

Entrance to Angels Flight, 1953, by Richard Steinheimer, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

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 Lisa Stone Collection on Mercedes, Texas. Highlights include a folding souvenir postcard featuring several images of Mercedes and a postcard of a group of women reading at an outdoor party.

16 imprints, 1875-1937, comprising 844 pages, were added to the Texas: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints collection. These items include a long form poem about the Texas panhandle by Loyal Hale, a book of expense classifications by the Railroad Commission of the state of Texas, and a directory of the tax payers of Dallas County. 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).

4 interviews were added to the SMU Oral History and Digital Humanities Student Projects collection. These interviews, with Dr. Alicia Booker, Saavni Desai, Matthew Esparza, and Amy Wong, are part of the Voices of SMU project.

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

96 postcards, ca. 1908-1924, by W. E. Hadsell and Manuel Ramos, from the Elmer and Diane Powell Collection on Mexico and the Mexican Revolution. Subjects include light shining into a prison cell in the Castle of San Juan de Ulúa and scenes from the American occupation of Veracruz.

3 postcards, ca. 1907-1915, from the American Border Troops and the Mexican Revolution. Subjects include a wrecked train engine and U.S. soldiers in trenches.

2 stereographs, ca. 1884, from the Henry A. Doerr Stereographs, showing a home in Mexico and the Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo in San Antonio, Texas.

Service. A Bulletin of Southern Methodist University. Volume 1, Number 4, 1921, Bridwell Library, SMU.

28 newsletters, 1920 to 1926, from Service Newsletters, part of the Perkins School of Theology Collection. This newsletter was both a means of communicating with current students and alumni and a way for SMU’s School of Theology to publish its programs throughout the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

1 postcard, ca. 1859-1870s, from the Early Texas Town Views, depicting what is likely the Convent of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament in Brownsville, Texas.

1 stereograph by E. L. Clement, from the Stereographs of Mexico, showing two people walking along train tracks.

1 stereograph, ca. 1923, by Underwood & Underwood, from the Collection of Stereographs of People, depicting suffragist leader Dr. Anna Howard Shaw.

2 erecting card drawings, 1905-1906, from the Collection of Baldwin Locomotive Works Records, for Arcata and Mad River Railroad and Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company.