CONTENTdm Collections   We added 621 items into our CONTENTdm collections in June. CUL now has 12,462 published items. Below are some highlights from April: – 20 Texas currency notes in John N. Rowe III Collection of Texas Currency – DeForrest Judd’s Mexico Sketchbook (37 pages) and Caddo Sketchbook (92 pages) in Texas Artists: Paintings,…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections: June 2011

Robert Yarnall Richie was a corporate industrial photographer, whose main body of work spans the 1930s-1970s. We are constantly amazed by the ingenuity of his photography. We are adding many more items to the Robert Yarnall Richie Photographs digital collection. The latest uploads include a series of negatives for S.K.F. Bearing, a wonderful photo of…Continue Reading More photos from Robert Yarnall Richie

There are many photos of American Indians in CUL Digital Collections. We recently added 9 postcards of American Indians, including three of Quanah Parker, into the Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs. Quanah Parker was a well-known Comanche chief, whose Caucasian mother was captured at a young age and raised by the tribe. CUL Digital…Continue Reading New Postcards of American Indians

May was a very busy month at CUL Digital Collections. In May 2011, we uploaded 20 items into our Flickr: The Commons account, including 2 related to Cinco de Mayo, 4 related to VE Day, 6 on the Mexican Revolution, and 8 from the Lawrence T. Jones photography collection. Shown left: El cinco de Mayo…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections: May 2011

Most of the time, we know precisely what is in each collection of photographs. Sometimes, we are pleasantly surprised. The Robert Yarnall Richie photograph collection never fails us, in this regard. Robert Yarnall Richie (1908-1984) worked as a free-lance commercial and industrial photographer for many large corporations including those in the automobile, aviation, chemical, mining,…Continue Reading New photo of Jesse Owens

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Today is the 66th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (VE Day), which marks the end of Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. SMU’s Central University Libraries (CUL) has three collections pertaining to World War II: – Melvin C.  Shaffer World War II Photographs; – Frank J. Davis World War II Photographs; and –…Continue Reading VE Day Images

Today, we uploaded DeForrest Judd’s Big Bend, Hill Country, and Caddo Lake Sketchbook, comprising 124 pages of  images. DeForrest H. Judd, a native of Hartsgrove, Ohio, lived most of his life in Dallas working as an artist and teaching at Southern Methodist University. Judd’s keen observation of everyday life and nature influenced him to paint,…Continue Reading DeForrest Judd’s Big Bend, Hill Country, and Caddo Lake Sketchbook

This blog is designed to provide more information on the items that are uploaded into Southern Methodist University’s digital collections. I work for the Central University Libraries (CUL) as the digital collections developer. Each month, we upload hundreds of digitized photographs, works of art, manuscripts, imprints, and more that are held by our seven special…Continue Reading CUL: Digital Collections: April 2011