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
CUL Digital Collections: August 2011
SMU Central University Libraries and Bridwell Library added 716 items into our digital collections in August. Below are some highlights from August: – 61 items from the Photographs of Q.S.T.S. “Lusitania” – 73 postcards from the Collection of cowboy postcards – 105 stereographs from the Collection of Carleton E. Watkins western stereoscopic views – 6 card…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections: August 2011
Lusitania and Mauretania Photos
CUL Digital Collections has recently uploaded two photograph albums of the Lusitania and Mauretania passenger ships, held by Southern Methodist University’s DeGolyer Library. Photos of the Lusitania are part of the Photographs of Q.S.T.S. “Lusitania”. This album contains 59 photographs of exterior and interior views of the Cunard Steamship Company ship, R.M.S. Lusitania. The Lusitania, the…Continue Reading Lusitania and Mauretania Photos
CUL Digital Collections: July 2011
A record 5,700 items were uploaded in July. A major portion of the items were 70 sketchbooks comprising 4,604 pages that were added to the Otis Dozier Sketchbooks collection. All 130 sketchbooks have now been cataloged and uploaded. This collection is a cooperative project with the Dallas Museum of Art. Below are some highlights from…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections: July 2011