In February 2025, SMU Libraries uploaded 250 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include:
The new Rees-Jones Collection Highlights digital collection, which includes:
5 color aquatints, 1839-1841, from Karl Bodmer’s Travels in the Interior of North America, showing landscape scenes and imagery often relating to Indigenous peoples.
3 color lithographs, 1851, by Carl Nebel from The War between the United States and Mexico illustrated…, depicting various battles during the conflict.
5 color lithographs, 1847, from Daniel Whiting’s Army Portfolio, showing scenes during the Mexican-American War.
8 color lithographs, ca. 1848, by Henry Walke, from Naval Portfolio: Naval Scenes in the Mexican War, which depict different scenes from the Mexican-American War.
9 color lithographs, ca. 1844, from Catlin’s North American Indian portfolio: Hunting Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies of America, which show the culture and day to day life of Indigenous people George Catlin encountered on his travels.
10 salt paper prints, 1857-1858, from [Blackmore’s Ethnology Album]. The portrait photographs, taken at the James E. McClees Studio, show various Native American and tribal leaders during their delegation visit to Washington, D.C.
1 map and 6 color lithographs from Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, depicting settlements and natural locations along Henry Warre’s travels to the West.
4 color lithographs, ca. 1852, by John Woodhouse Audubon, from Illustrated Notes of an Expedition through Mexico and California, which depict natural locations and camp sites from the expedition’s travels.
Panorama der Stadt Neu – Braunfels in Texas, 1847, a panoramic view showing the town of New Braunfels, Texas, from a hill south of town.
7 color lithographs, ca. 1876, by F.V. Hayden and Thomas Moran from The Yellowstone National Park, and the Mountain Regions of Portions of Idaho, Nevada, Colorado and Utah, depicting natural scenes in and around the Yellowstone area.
10 portrait photographs, 1872, by Alexander Gardner, from the Photographs of Indian Delegations, consisting of Red Cloud and his Braves. The photographs were taken during an 1872 visit by leading members of the Sioux Nation.
16 color lithographs, ca. 1869, from The New and Heretofore Unfigured Species of the Birds of North America, depicting a wide variety of species of bird from across the North American continent.
25 color lithographs, 1845, from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, showing a variety of mammals in their native habitats.
A number of items were uploaded to other digital collections:
54 WFAA newsfilms from April and May 1972. The videos are enhanced with annotations researched and written by staff at the G. William Jones Film and Video Collection. The annotations provide detailed descriptions of each shot based on time-code, making the newsfilms easy to search and retrieve, as well as providing information on the people, places, and events that are depicted.
14 historic Texas cookbooks, 1912-1967, comprising 1,574 pages, were added to the DeGolyer Library Cookbook Collection, including cookbooks from the Ladies Auxiliary of the Comal County Sheriffs Posse and the Parent Teachers Association of Lone Oak. 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).
23 photographs, press releases, and other documents and correspondence from the Stanley Marcus Papers, 1940s-1980s. Highlights include a color photograph taken at the first meeting of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Urban Institute, of which Stanley Marcus was a founding member, and a photograph of the DeGolyer Medal, presented by SMU Libraries to Stanley Marcus in 1987 for his “distinguished contributions to the world of books.”
30 photographs, ca. 1913-1914, from the Elmer and Diane Powell Collection on Mexico and the Mexican Revolution, including scenes of the 1914 American occupation of Veracruz, including views of Veracruz harbor, San Juan de Ulua, and scenes from within the city of Veracruz. Photographs show sailors at leisure in Mexico, a Mexican sugarcane processing factory, and parades of and memorials for the U.S. soldiers involved in the occupation. The images include U.S. forces landing, Mexicans fighting in defense of the Veracruz customs house, the U.S.S. Chester in Veracruz harbor, and the effects of the Chester’s shelling after the battle.
7 erecting card drawings, 1905-1926, from the Collection of Baldwin Locomotive Works Records, for Southern Railway, Great Western Railway, Crosbyton-Southplains, Harris-Lipsitz Lumber Company, Louisiana Saw Mill, and Norfolk and Western.