CUL Digital Collections Update: December 2015

In December 2015, SMU’s Central University Libraries uploaded 465 items into CUL Digital Collections. CUL now has approximately 50,647 published items.

Highlights include:

121 items from the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas Image Collection as part of the Texas Treasures FY2016 grant program, sponsored by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

The newly added items include many portrait photographs taken by Dallas photographers, such as Alfred Freeman, H.B. Hillyer and his son Charles, W. Wirt Williams, Clifton Church, Charles Henry Wisdom, and the Weatherington brothers, George and John. The portraits depict several prominent Dallas citizens, including John M. Young, Dallas County Surveyor for the years 1890-1892; Moses Iralson, Dallas businessman; Dr. Charles Hubert Sherman, Dallas physician; and William Adolph Mayer (as a child), taxidermist who stuffed and mounted the birds at the Dallas Natural History Museum. Additional photographs show Highland Park residences, businesses, and landmarks, as well as the SMU men’s dormitories fire of 1926. Also uploaded was Texas Nursery Company, Sherman, Texas, Photo Scenes, which acted as a promotional booklet for the Texas Nursery Company in Sherman, Texas. This album included 37 RPPCs of the workers in action at the nursery, as well as images of the various groves and plots located on the nursery, and examples of work done by the company.

92 stereoviews from Stereographs of Mexico, including items by Julio Michaud, the Kilburn Brothers, and J.F. Jarvis. Highlights include a series documenting the destruction caused by flooding in Guanajuato, images of prominent buildings in Mexico City, and panoramas of Mexican cities.

35 photographs from the Collection of Photographs of Mexico. Items include two panoramic postcards of Veracruz and Amecameca; a number of views of landmarks in city life depicting parks, fountains, and buildings; and photographs of people going about their daily lives. One photograph from the International News Service shows the scene of a catastrophic oil fire in 1921. A number of photographs were taken by Cox & Carmichael and Winfield Scott.

2 volumes, 1857, from the Report of the Ministry of Development, Colonization, Industry and Trade of the Mexican Republic.

26 items from the Hervey A. Priddy Collection of American Presidential and Political Memorabilia, including political and/or campaign-related items from elections spanning 1880-2005. Items include pin-back buttons, lapel studs and pins, and some ribbon and shell badges. Some unique items are a Kennedy for President campaign pencil, an “In Memoriam” button for William McKinley after he was assassinated, and a “Nobody Loves a Fat Man” campaign button, mocking William Taft.[/caption]

15 documents, ca. 1910s-1920s, from the Robert S. Hyer Papers. The documents comprise handwritten and typed speeches and writings by Hyer, who was the founder and president of Southern Methodist University from 1911-1920. The topics of the speeches are Southwestern University and the Dallas Proposition, ca. 1910; Upon What Basis and by Whom Shall Colleges of the First Class Be Determined in Texas? 1911; Purposes and Ideals of a University, 1912-1913; Presidential Address on Fraternities, ca. 1915; Considerations Favorable to the Success of Conducting a Real University by Our Denomination or Any Other of the Christian Church, ca. 1916; Ultimate Aim of Education, ca. 1916-1917; Why Texas Boys and Girls Should Be Educated in Texas, ca. 1916; Education Outside of Texas, ca. 1918-1919; Municipal University for Dallas: A Nucleus for a Group of Colleges, ca. 1910-1917; Influence of Universities, ca. 1920-1929; Adequate and Permanent Financial Support for Higher Educational Institutes, ca. 1910s-1920s; and Higher Education in a Democracy: An Analysis of Principles, ca. 1910s-1920s.

 

Captain Tick-Mouse and His Adventures with the Torch Bearers, 1918. This pamphlet comprises a series of stories written to get children involved in the war effort by acquiring Thrift Stamps during World War I.

150 issues of SMU’s student newspaper, The SMU Campus, 1967-1969.

El Tovar Hotel, Grand Canyon, 1906, by Louis Atkins. This chromolithograph shows the El Tovar Hotel, a destination resort for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad at the Grand Canyon, which was designed by Charles Whittlesey and opened in 1905.