![Queen Mary & Normandie [No. 27], 1936, DeGolyer Library, SMU.](https://blog.smu.edu/smulibraries/files/2025/05/ryr_4383_large-1.jpg)
In April 2025, SMU Libraries uploaded 416 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 115 negatives, ca. 1936-1937, from the Robert Yarnall Richie Photographs collection. Highlights include 5 photographs from Merchants Distilling in Terre Haute, Indiana and a series of 32 images depicting the steamships RMS Queen Mary and SS Normandie, which were the…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: April 2025
In March 2025, SMU Libraries uploaded 322 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 18 programs, 1976-2007, from SMU’s annual literary festival were added to the SMU Campus Memories digital collection. These programs list a schedule of events and have short biographies of the many significant poets, novelists, and other literary figures who visited…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: March 2025
In February 2025, SMU Libraries uploaded 250 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: The new Rees-Jones Collection Highlights digital collection, which includes: 5 color aquatints, 1839-1841, from Karl Bodmer’s Travels in the Interior of North America, showing landscape scenes and imagery often relating to Indigenous peoples. 3 color lithographs, 1851, by Carl Nebel…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: February 2025
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
![[Electric Theater and JCPenney, Springfield, Missouri], 1943, DeGolyer Library, SMU.](https://blog.smu.edu/smulibraries/files/2024/10/jcp_433_large.jpg)
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