In May 2025, SMU Libraries uploaded 224 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 94 film negatives, ca. 1936-1937, from the Robert Yarnall Richie Photographs collection. Highlights include a photograph of a man preparing to seal a keg at the Gulf Brewing Company in Houston and 20 photographs from the Imperial Sugar Company in Sugar Land, Texas,…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: May 2025
![Queen Mary & Normandie [No. 27], 1936, DeGolyer Library, SMU.](https://blog.smu.edu/smulibraries/files/2025/05/ryr_4383_large-1.jpg)
In April 2025, SMU Libraries uploaded 416 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 115 negatives, ca. 1936-1937, from the Robert Yarnall Richie Photographs collection. Highlights include 5 photographs from Merchants Distilling in Terre Haute, Indiana and a series of 32 images depicting the steamships RMS Queen Mary and SS Normandie, which were the…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: April 2025
In March 2025, SMU Libraries uploaded 322 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 18 programs, 1976-2007, from SMU’s annual literary festival were added to the SMU Campus Memories digital collection. These programs list a schedule of events and have short biographies of the many significant poets, novelists, and other literary figures who visited…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: March 2025
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…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: February 2025
![Minnie Tom, Cedar [No. 4], ca. 1929-1930s, DeGolyer Library, SMU.](https://blog.smu.edu/smulibraries/files/2025/02/itk_613_medium.jpg)
In January 2025, SMU Libraries uploaded 308 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 40 negatives, ca. 1955-1957, from the Richard Steinheimer Photograph Collection. Subjects include a trip to Arizona and aerial photographs of the Glendale and La Crescenta areas of Los Angeles County. 128 items, ca. 1850-1950s, from the Elmer and Diane Powell Collection on…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: January 2025
In December 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded 478 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 86 negatives, ca. 1930s, from the Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection. Highlights include a series of 19 aerial views of private school campuses in New England, including St. Mark’s School, St. George’s School, and Taft School. Two programs, 1946 and 1948, from…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: December 2024
SMU football fans are celebrating the team’s first ACC season with a playoff against Penn State University this week. The Mustangs and Nittany Lions have only met twice in their long history. The 1948 Cotton Bowl Classic ended in a tie, and Penn State won the 1978 game at home. SMU’s first football game…Continue Reading Pony Up! Over a century of SMU football
In November 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded 330 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 138 negatives, ca. 1930s, from the Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection. Highlights include a series of images of the American Radiator Building (today the Bryant Park Hotel) in New York City and images from the Texas State Fair in the centennial year of 1936….Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: November 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…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: October 2024
Annette Becker, director of the Texas Fashion Collection (TFC) at the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design, recently found photographs of interest within the collections at SMU’s DeGolyer Library. Housed within the library’s abundance of manuscripts, maps, photographs and rare documents are the Stanley Marcus Papers. The collection is comprised of…Continue Reading Dallas Fashion History in the Archives