CUL Digital Collections: New Items Added in January 2016 In January 2016, SMU’s Central University Libraries uploaded 363 items into CUL Digital Collections. CUL now has approximately 51,009 published items. Highlights include: 6 prints and 128 photographs from the Elmer and Diane Powell Collection on the Mexican Revolution. These prints include political cartoons regarding the…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections Update: January 2016
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…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections Update: December 2015
The travels of The Blood of Jesus
One of the most significant of the Tyler Race Films is The Blood of Jesus, written by and starring Spencer Williams. As with many of Williams’ films, this is a study of the continuing conflict between good and evil, holiness and godlessness, church and juke joint. Williams filmed it with a largely amateur cast and…Continue Reading The travels of The Blood of Jesus
CUL Digital Collections Update: November 2015
In November 2015, SMU’s Central University Libraries uploaded 536 items into CUL Digital Collections. CUL now has approximately 50,180 published items. Highlights include: 93 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…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections Update: November 2015
Octavio Medellin: Maya-Toltec Temples and Carvings, 1938 on display
Please stop by the second-floor gallery outside of Bywaters Special Collections and view how the portfolio XTOL by Octavio Medellin was researched by the artist in 1938 and later published in 1947 by the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, which preceded the Dallas Museum of Art. Work began in 1938 when Octavio Medellin spent six months…Continue Reading Octavio Medellin: Maya-Toltec Temples and Carvings, 1938 on display
CUL Digital Collections Update: October 2015
In October 2015, SMU’s Central University Libraries uploaded 564 items into CUL Digital Collections. CUL now has approximately 49,644 published items. Highlights include: 107 postcards of Dallas, 1904-1959, 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…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections Update: October 2015
Pictorial: Collecting the macabre, Part 2
Does Fondren have ghosts? Some say yes. As far as we know, the only entities haunting Hamon late at night are SMU students. Let’s get on with the second installment of Collecting the macabre….Continue Reading Pictorial: Collecting the macabre, Part 2
Pictorial: Collecting the macabre, Part 1
In the spirit of Halloween, we’ve gathered here some of the most macabre items from Central University Libraries’ special collections….Continue Reading Pictorial: Collecting the macabre, Part 1
Pressing Through Time: 150 Years of Printmaking in Taos
I just returned from Taos, New Mexico where I attended the symposium that was in conjunction with the exhibition Pressing Through Time – 150 Years of Printmaking in Taos co-curated by Dr. David Farmer, former director of DeGolyer Library, SMU. Two lithographs from Bywaters Special Collections are included in the exhibition – House in…Continue Reading Pressing Through Time: 150 Years of Printmaking in Taos
Division of Dance concert programs now online
Hamon Arts Library is excited to make the Division of Dance Concert Programs and Materials available online in the SMU Digital Collections. The library worked closely with the Division of Dance in the Meadows School of the Arts and the Digital Collections to bring this collection to a global audience. The programs illuminate the Division’s…Continue Reading Division of Dance concert programs now online