SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: October 2024

In October 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded 306 items in SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include:

116 prints and transparencies, most ca. 1930s-1950s, from the Robert Yarnall Richie Photographs. Highlights include three photographs of men working at Dugan Bakeries as well as 80 images of oil facilities and daily life on oil refinery compounds, which were taken for the Bahrain Petroleum Company in Bahrain and Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia.

20 oral history transcript excerpts, 1985-1992, from the Ronald L. Davis Oral History Collection. The interviewees are from all branches of the performing arts, but the emphasis is on motion pictures and popular music. Many interviewees give detailed accounts of personal experience and reflections from their professional career. Highlights include excerpts from interviews with Arthur Lubin, Jay Sandrich, Ronald Neame, William Greaves, and Duane C. Bogie.

1 interview was added to the SMU Oral History and Digital Humanities Student Projects collection. The interview, with Adam Czarnik, is part of the Voices of SMU project.

44 photographs, concept drawings, and other items, ca. 1920s-1980s, from the JCPenney Records. Highlights include a map and four color illustrations of the Danbury Fair mall and six photographs of a scale model of Woodfield Mall, both of which had JCPenney as an anchor store.

32 items, ca. 1890s-1988, by various creators, from the Collection of African American Photographs. Subjects include an integrated classroom from 1915.

6 erecting card drawings, 1898-1927, from the Collection of Baldwin Locomotive Works Records, for Danville and Western Railway Company; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company; Hawaiian Sugar Company; and Minera de Peñoles.

11 stereographs, ca. 1861-1879, from the Collection of Civil War Era Stereographs. Subjects include stereoviews of John Rogers statuettes.

7 real photographic postcards, ca. 1907-1940s, from the Collection of Real Photographic Postcards of Texas. Subjects include a postcard depicting two oil workers at a well.

30 historic Texas cookbooks, ca. 1900-1967, comprising 1,533 pages, were added to the DeGolyer Library Cookbook Collection. The cookbooks include Cooking Recipes of the Pioneers, Recipes for Young Moderns, and Theta’s Party Book, 1967. The cookbooks reflect a diversity of recipe sources, including companies like Kellogg’s, church groups, and sororities. 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‐256843‐OLS‐24).

16 real photographic postcards, 1 halftone photomechanical print, and 12 photographic prints, ca. 1913-1916, from the Elmer and Diane Powell Collection on Mexico and the Mexican Revolution. These items depict scenes of the U.S. Atlantic fleet’s soldiers, ships, and civilian and commercial transport ships dating to approximately the time of the 1914 occupation of Veracruz. Also included are further scenes from the occupation, including photographs of soldiers and sailors boarding and disembarking ships, soldiers marching with weapons, scenes of refugees fleeing Veracruz and seeking shelter within the city, ruined buildings, and graphic depictions of the casualties of war.

2 photographs, ca. 1912-1930s, from the Collection of Texas Photographs. [Full Parking Lot], by Perry Studio, depicts a small parking lot of both trucks and personal vehicles. Cotton Palace Parade, by an unknown creator, depicts the front of the parade as onlookers watch from the sidewalk and nearby buildings.

4 items, ca. 1900s-1940s, from Foreign Photograph Views and Albums. Subjects include a view of São Paulo taken from the Luz Station clock tower.

2 photomechanical postcards, ca. 1930s-1940s, by various creators, from the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas Image Collection, depicting the Navarro Hotel in Corsicana, Texas.

“Santa Fe Depot”, ca. 1920, from the Everett L. DeGoyler Jr. Collection of United States Railroad Photographs, depicting the exterior of the ATSF depot in Amarillo, Texas, which is now a museum and local attraction.

“[J. E. Mayberry General Merchandise]”, ca. 1930s, from the Collection of Photographs of People and the Vicinity of Dallas, Texas. It depicts a general store with gasoline service stations in front of it.