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In December 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded 478 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 86 negatives, ca. 1930s, from the Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection. Highlights include a series of 19 aerial views of private school campuses in New England, including St. Mark’s School, St. George’s School, and Taft School. Two programs, 1946 and 1948, from…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: December 2024

In November 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded 330 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 138 negatives, ca.  1930s, from the Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection. Highlights include a series of images of the American Radiator Building (today the Bryant Park Hotel) in New York City and images from the Texas State Fair in the centennial year of 1936….Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: November 2024

In October 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded 306 items in SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 116 prints and transparencies, most ca. 1930s-1950s, from the Robert Yarnall Richie Photographs. Highlights include three photographs of men working at Dugan Bakeries as well as 80 images of oil facilities and daily life on oil refinery compounds, which were taken for…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: October 2024

In September 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded 403 items in SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 73 photographs and illustrations, ca. 1920s-1980s, from the J. C. Penney Company Records. Highlights include a series of photographs taken to show where the Kirksville, MO, store location was being expanded, including two images of the construction, and a photograph…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: September 2024

In August 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded or enhanced 270 items in SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 12 promotional brochures, 1925-1989, were added to the Southern Methodist University Campus Memories collection. These items, spanning the 1920s to the 1980s, feature facts about and images of SMU’s campus and student life. 20 oral history transcript excerpts,…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: August 2024