CUL Digital Collections Update: September 2013

In September 2013, CUL uploaded 1,086 items into our CONTENTdm collections.

Highlights include:

60 photographs and prints in the newly-created Doris A. and Lawrence H. Budner Collection on Theodore Roosevelt.

410 slides in the Octavio Medellin: Works of Art and Artistic Processes collection, including new series for Reflections in Glass and Uplifting Force.

74 photographs from
Photographs of Western India. Costumes and Characters. Volume I, ca. 1855-1862, by William Johnson et al.

5 photographs of locomotives and historic railway advertisements from the 1860s-1890s, including three relating to the Texas & Pacific Railroad.

38 stereographs of Texas in the Banks McLaurin, Jr. Stereograph Collection.

4 card photographs from the Alexander Gardner cartes de visite and portraits.

Manhattan Bridge, 1903, part of the New York Bridge Contract Drawings

5 photographic prints of Missouri River ferries, ca. 1870, attributed to John Carbutt, which also include images of railroad cars

204 issues of the Southern Methodist University Student Newspapers, including:

• The Campus — Volume 23 (September 1937 – May 1938)
• The Semi-Weekly Campus — Volumes 24 – 25 (September 1938 – May 1940)
• The Campus — Volume 26 (September 1940 – May 1941)
• Semi-Weekly Campus — Volumes 27 – 28 (September 1941 – May 1943)
• Campus — Volumes 29–30 (July 1943 – June 1945).

8 leaflets from the Collection of Fred Harvey’s La Fonda Inn materials, 1926-1957, which is part of the Fred Harvey Co. Materials from the DeGolyer Library subset within the U.S. West: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints digital collection.

2 postcards, ca. 1910-1917, from the Collection of Walter H. Horne photographs were added to the Mexico: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints collection and 3 postcards, ca. 1916, from the Collection of Walter H. Horne photographs were added to the U.S. West: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints digital collection.

2 photographs showing the Fundicion de Sinaloa, (Foundry of Sinaloa), Mazatlan, Mexico.

153 photographic prints, or the first three volumes, of the Les Travaux Publics de la France:

• Les Travaux Publics de la France, Tome Premier: Routes et Ponts
• Les Travaux Publics de la France, Tome Deuxieme: Chemins de Fer
• Les Travaux Publics de la France, Tome Troisieme: Rivieres et Canaux, Eaux des Villes – Irrigation et Assainissement des Terres