SMU’s CUL Digital Collections has made available the Texas Instruments Records digital collection, which contains hundreds of photographic images and documents from the Texas Instruments (TI) records archive held by SMU’s DeGolyer Libraryand/or TI headquarters. The Texas Instruments Records physical collection consists of over 1500 cubic feet of corporate records, photographs, and artifacts. The archive…Continue Reading Texas Instruments Records Digital Collection

In December, staff at SMU’s CUL Digital Collections created a new web page for and uploaded 218 files into the new Texas Instruments Records digital collection. This was a joint project with TI. We created a web page for, made fully public, and added 38 additional items into the Belo Records, 1842-2007 digital collection. Shown…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections Update: December 2012

New additions to CUL Digital Collections in November 2012 In November 2012, CUL uploaded 640 items into our CONTENTdm collections. CUL now has approximately 28,940 published items. Highlights include: 92 Texas-related oil negatives by Robert Yarnall Richie as part of the TexTreasures FY2013 grant 38 negatives by Robert Yarnall Richie, including 14 aerial views of…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections Update: November 2012

George N. Barnard was one of the most skilled and versatile cameramen of the Civil War, photographing in the Virginia area, Tennessee, Georgia, and South Carolina. He worked independently and for E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., Brady & Co. and Alexander Gardner. More mobile than many operators, in late 1863, Barnard was hired by…Continue Reading Photographic views of William T. Sherman’s campaign available online

SMU’s CUL Digital Collections has made available the Dallas Aerial Photographs, 1945 USDA  Survey. This online collection complements the Dallas Historic Aerial Photographs, 1930 Fairchild Survey. There are 16 pairs of images in the Dallas Aerial Photographs, USDA 1945 Survey digital collection that portray various locations in the Dallas metropolitan area as well as Irving,…Continue Reading Dallas Aerial Photographs, 1945 USDA Survey, Edwin J. Foscue Map Library

In October 2012, SMU Central University Libraries uploaded 624 items into CUL Digital Collections. CUL now has approximately 28,300 published items. Highlights include: 47 Texas-related oil negatives by Robert Yarnall Richie as part of the TexTreasures FY2013 grant 38 negatives by Robert Yarnall Richie, including aerial views of Palm Beach and other estates, as well…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections Update: October 2012

Selected items added to SMU CUL Digital Collections in October 2012…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections Spotlight: October 2012

Seventy-eight photographs and real photographic postcards by Hugo Brehme depicting the Mexican landscape between the years 1905 and 1920 are now available online. The images, held by SMU’s DeGolyer Library, are part of the Mexico: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints digital collection, one of more than 30 digital collections that form part of CUL Digital Collections. Ernst…Continue Reading SMU DeGolyer Library’s Brehme photographs of Mexico

  191 postcards that depict the oil boom in Texas are now available online in the Texas: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints digital collection, which is one of more than 30 digital collections that form part of CUL Digital Collections. The postcards are held by SMU’s DeGolyer Library. Many of the postcards show the rapid growth…Continue Reading The Texas Oil Industry Illustrated through Postcards

Highlights include: 114 images in the Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs collection, including 26 cased daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes 776 slides in Octavio Medellin: Works of Art and Artistic Processes, including Box 6 containing the series on Guatemala, Travels to Mexico, and The Adolescent 30 photographs of French and German locomotives from the David…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections: September 2012