In May 2012, CUL uploaded 608 items into our CONTENTdm collections. CUL now has approximately 23,150 published items. (Note: Items include individual pages in compound objects.) Below are highlights: 53 Texas photographs into the Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs collection as part of the Summerlee Texas History Grant 71 early Texas postcards digitized as…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections: May 2012
CUL Digital Collections: April 2012
In April 2012, CUL uploaded 527 items into our CONTENTdm collections. Below are highlights: Rancho Encinal, an album containing 48 pages of photographs of the DeGolyer estate at White Rock Lake 43 Texas photographs into the Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs collection as part of the Summerlee Texas History Grant 105 early Texas postcards…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections: April 2012
CUL Digital Collections: March 2012
CONTENTdm Collections In March, SMU Central University Libraries uploaded 677 items into our CONTENTdm collections. CUL now has approximately 22,013 published items. Below are highlights: A copy of the Texas Declaration of Independence 7 movies in the Tyler, Texas Black Film Collection 20 items from the LHL Eisenbahn-Technische Ausstellung “Seddin” album 124 Texas photographs into…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections: March 2012
CUL Digital Collections: February 2012
In February, CUL uploaded 686 items into our CONTENTdm collections. CUL now has approximately 21,336 published items. Below are highlights: 116 Texas photographs into the Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs collection as part of the Summerlee Texas History Grant 21 currency notes in the Rowe-Barr Collection of Texas Currency 10 items in the newly-created…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections: February 2012
Feldbahn-Uebung, Uelzen-Celle, 1892, Photographs
This Geman railroad portfolio from 1892, held by SMU’s DeGolyer Library, consists of 32 plates documenting the railroad and military operations along the route from the German towns of Uelzen to Celle. This was a Feldbahn narrow gauge military railway (built by specialists) from Uelzen to Celle via Hermannsburg, built to conduct maneuvers (Uebung) and…Continue Reading Feldbahn-Uebung, Uelzen-Celle, 1892, Photographs
CUL Digital Collections: January 2012
In January, CUL uploaded 457 items into our CONTENTdm collections. CUL now has approximately 20,650 published items. Below are highlights: – 215 early Texas postcards digitized as part of the FY 2012 TexTreasures grant – Views of Texas Photographed by S. B. Hill, ca. 1880s, uploaded into the Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs collection…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections: January 2012
CUL Digital Collections: December 2011
In December, SMU’s Central University Libraries uploaded 401 items into our CONTENTdm collections. CUL now has approximately 20,200 published items. Below are highlights: – 57 issues of early SMU student newspapers – 86 early Texas postcards digitized as part of the FY 2012 TexTreasures grant – 56 currency notes in the Rowe-Barr Collection of Texas…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections: December 2011
CUL Digital Collections: November 2011
In November, CUL uploaded 566 items into our CONTENTdm collections. Below are some highlights: – 29 items, mostly lithographs, from the Collection of Railroad Negatives –16 currency notes in the Rowe-Barr Collection of Texas Currency – 67 items in the McCord-Renshaw Performing Arts digital collection, including 31 photographs and 35 theater programs from the SMU Arden…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections: November 2011
CUL Digital Collections: October 2011
In October, SMU’s Central University Libraries uploaded 401 items into our CONTENTdm collections. CUL now has approximately 19,300 published items. Below are some highlights from October 2011: – 19 items from the Inaugural celebration of the Mexico, Cuernavaca & Pacific Railway – 20 locomotive builders’ cards from Baldwin Locomotive Works – 7 photographs of Monterey…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections: October 2011
CUL Digital Collections: September 2011
Southern Methodist University libraries added 477 items into our CONTENTdm collections in September. Central University Libraries now has approximately 19,000 published items. Below are some highlights from September: – 13 items from the Collection of Civil War and military cartes de visite and portraits – 6 items from the Alexander Gardner cartes de visite and…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections: September 2011