News from the DeGolyer Library Southern Methodist University August 2021 Our Latest Exhibit Our latest exhibit is scheduled to open in Fondren Library’s Hillcrest Exhibit Hall on Thursday September 9, 2021: Engaged with Books: Photographs Over Time For our first exhibition since January 2020, we chose to celebrate reading and the written word by showcasing…Continue Reading News from the DeGolyer Library August 2021
HemisFair ’68
San Antonio was host to the World’s Fair from April to October in 1968, which was also the city’s 250th anniversary. Formal planning for this international event began in 1962, and the theme was “the confluence of civilizations in the Americas.” Major corporations, organizations and…Continue Reading HemisFair ’68
Summer in Miami…Texas
Summer in Miami…Texas You can spend your summer traveling to Paris (Texas), or Italy (Texas). But why not instead take a trip to Miami (Texas)? Miami, the county seat of Roberts County, is on U.S. Highway 60 between Canadian and Pampa in the southeastern part of the county. This photograph and scrap album, kept by…Continue Reading Summer in Miami…Texas
Scoring Precision
Few events are met with so much anticipation as the Olympic Games. The five interlocking rings; the unmistakable hymn; the torch relay arriving at the opening ceremony; the sportsmanship; records getting broken, and medals decided within hundreds of a second. Bar world wars or a pandemic, athletes, organizers and public come together every four years…Continue Reading Scoring Precision
News from the DeGolyer Library July 2021
News from the DeGolyer Library Southern Methodist University July 2021 News & Notes Folklore in the Archives Part 1: Friday, August 27, 2021 – 11:00am-1:30pm CST Part 2: Friday, September 3, 2021 – 11:00am-1:30pm CST Join archivists, researchers, and lore enthusiasts from around North America as they share their research and collections in a two-part…Continue Reading News from the DeGolyer Library July 2021
Time for a little Arts and Crafts…
The Dallas Federation of Women’s Clubs (DFWC), originally named the City Federation of Women’s Clubs, was created in 1898 as the consolidation of five existing women’s cultural and literary clubs. At the general meeting on November 3, 1931, the federation entertained a recommendation for the formation of the Three Arts Study Club, a new women’s…Continue Reading Time for a little Arts and Crafts…
Juneteenth National Independence Day
President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863. However, it was two and a half years later before Texas slaves got the message when Union Major General Gordon Granger issued the order in Galveston, “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United…Continue Reading Juneteenth National Independence Day
News from the DeGolyer Library June 2021
News from the DeGolyer Library Southern Methodist University June 2021 News & Notes Sam Holley-Kline, PhD, a Dean’s Postdoctoral Scholar at Florida State University, is using an image (left) held in the Isabel T. Kelly Ethnographic Archive for a forthcoming article in the journal Ethnohistory. Some years ago, while working on his dissertation at Stanford University, he…Continue Reading News from the DeGolyer Library June 2021
1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Anniversary
As we are now at the hundredth anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, people look back at the atrocity with questions even today. They wonder how such a thing could happen. The Tulsa massacre occurred when white mobs attacked the affluent Greenwood African American community. The complete devastation of the Greenwood neighborhood, known as…Continue Reading 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Anniversary
Swimsuit Season!
Despite the recent damp spring weather, we are looking forward to sunnier days ahead. Summer is fast approaching and with that barbeques, beach balls, and swimming. Browsing through the SMU digital collections of the Archives of Women of the Southwest, Kenda North’s photographs of sun bathers stood out. Some of the 1970s summer fashion featured…Continue Reading Swimsuit Season!