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SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: July 2018

In July 2018, SMU Libraries uploaded 277 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections.

Highlights include:

Dallas : the commercial manufacturing center … : come to Dallas, the center of the agricultural district of Texas, ca. 1910, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

26 documents, ca. 1910-1936, in the Texas: Photographs, Manuscripts and Imprints digital collection as part of the TexTreasures FY2018 grant program, sponsored by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. These documents feature promotional literature from the early 20th century that supports both urban and rural development throughout Texas.

Cities featured include Abilene, Austin, Dallas, El Paso, Houston, and San Antonio. Literature promoting settlement and development in these locations focuses on industrial and agricultural development, and lists local businesses, services, and resources to prove the worthiness of the cities to prospective new residents. Several of these works were produced by local chambers of commerce, yet others were produced by businesses. The smaller cities of Almeda, Alpine, Memphis, Mercedes, and Rosenberg emphasize agriculture, climate, natural resources, and the availability of land. Rural cities were also promoted as tourist destinations, with promotional literature concerning them describing natural scenes, recreation activities, and cultural or historical points of interest.

[Jake and Nancy Hamon with Louis Armstrong at 1961 Silent Movies theme party], 1961, Bywaters Special Collections, SMU.

25 items were added to the Jake and Nancy Hamon Papers collection. These include 8 invitations to the Hamons’ famed theme parties, as well as

9 photographs of Jake and Nancy at the events.One photograph shows Jake and Nancy with prolific jazz musician Louis Armstrong. Also included are two color snapshots of Jake and Nancy from 1982, and

3 images of Nancy on the set of the 1943 film The Heat’s On.

One audio file of a Jackson lecture by Rabbi Levi Olan titled, “The Prophetic Faith in a Secular City – The Kingdom of God”, given on February 4, 1971 to the Perkins School of Theology digital collection.

[Johnny Cash on Stage], July 3, 1981, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

35 images taken by Andy Hanson from about 1960 through 1986, to the Collection of Photographs by Andy Hanson. These images feature musicians, actors, athletes, and political figures who visited the Dallas area, including Ron Howard, Jodie Foster, Clint Eastwood, Henry Kissinger, and James Brown, to name but a few. Among this set is an image Hanson captured of Johnny Cash on stage in Fort Worth, wearing his signature “Man in Black” outfit.

22 images to the Bridwell Library’s Fifteenth-Century Printed Books digital collection for a total of 1100 items in the collection. Each book in this collection was printed in Europe prior to 1501.

3 videos from the Hilltop Annual Videos. These videos, produced by the Student Media Company, document student and administrative life of the SMU campus from the years 1987-1990. Topics covered in these videos include fallout from the NCAA suspension, sorority and fraternity life, and the 1988 presidential election.

[Corner of Main and Akard], ca. 1910s, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

114 photographs, taken between the late 1800s to the early 1960s, from the George A. McAfee Photographs collection. Many of the images were taken by local photographer George A. McAfee, while some were by other photographers but in his personal collections. McAfee took many photographs of the streets of downtown Dallas, especially notable buildings and the streetcar system. The images also include Love Field Airport and train stations around DFW.

1 image from the World War I collection was added to Europe, Asia, and Australia- Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints. This German postcard features a soldier and a woman standing near an ocean with a submarine surfacing behind them.

6 stereographs, taken in 1867 by Alexander Gardner, from Across the continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division. These stereographs feature views along the route of the Union Pacific, Eastern Division, later the Kansas Pacific Railroad, and geological features in Missouri and Kansas.

Bosque de Chapultepec [No. 93], ca. 1880s-1890s, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

16 images, ca. 1880s to 1902, by Alfred Briquet, from [Collection of Alfred Briquet views of Mexico]. Briquet spent nearly 50 years photographing Mexico, and his subjects include churches, historical monuments, gold mines, Bosque de Chapultepec, and the Mexican Railway.

3 images, ca. 1890-1920, from Collection of African American Photographs, featuring images of African Americans in Texas and Oklahoma. Among these items is a family portrait depicting various members of the Porter family, who resided in Oklahoma.

8 lantern slides, ca. 1902-1935, from the Cullum & Boren Advertising Collection. The slides are advertisements from the Dallas sporting goods store Cullum & Boren, promoting cameras and film, bicycles, and an automobile tent.

15 stereographs, ca. 1880s-1890s, from the William Henry Jackson Stereographs. These images, taken by photographer W.H. Jackson, were taken in Mexico with a focus on churches, cityscapes, and landmarks.

12 stereographs, taken between 1896 and the 1940s, from the Collection of Texas Stereographs. These stereoviews are primarily from Keystone View Company. Most of the images are of rural Texas, including livestock, farm fields, and a cotton mill.

9 items, taken between 1868 and 1949, featuring the U.S. West. The items include 8 postcards depicting studio pictures of cowboys from the early 20th century and one stereograph by Alexander Gardner featuring Arapaho children.

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SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: June 2018

In June 2018, SMU Libraries uploaded 1,388 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections.

Highlights include:

60 documents, ca. 1909-1940s, into the Texas: Photographs, Manuscripts and Imprints digital collection as part of the TexTreasures FY2018 grant program, sponsored by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Where crops never fail, ca. 1918, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

These documents feature promotional literature from the early 20th century that encourages further settlement and development of Texas, focusing on both metropolitan and agricultural regions. Works promoting the smaller cities of Bonham, Floydada, Hamlin, Hereford, Mission, Pampa, Plainview, Port Isabel, Sherman, Spearman, Stamford, Three Rivers, and Yorktown focus on the availability of homes and land, the cities’ potential for growth, local industries, and local agricultural conditions and opportunities. Many of the promotional pamphlets published for these cities were issued by town site companies, municipal organizations, and chambers of commerce. Other cities highlighted include Amarillo, Austin, Boerne, Dallas, Edinburg, El Paso, Ft. Worth, Galveston, Hamlin, Houston, La Porte, Pampa, Paris, Plainview, Port Arthur, Throckmorton, Weslaco, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Of special note is The Lone Star State’s Door to the World, which explains why the federal government deepened the channel and harbor in Galveston; how these improvements reduced ocean rates, port charges, marine insurance, and railroad rates; the benefits of deepening the Galveston port to other states, especially in the West and Southwest; the expansion of wharves and wharf sheds to protect cargo; why Galveston commerce grew 882% as a result of deeper channels and harbors; the adaptability of the Galveston port for future expansion; the construction progress of the Causeway; the construction process of the seawall; and plans for a seaside hotel and resort.

Bridwell Library exterior, Bridwell Library Special Collections, SMU.

328 photographs and documents were added to The History of Bridwell Library collection spanning the 1950s-1990s. The collection includes photographs of the library after opening in 1951, the 1972-73 addition of the Bridwell Annex, the 1988-89 expansion and renovation, and noteworthy library events.

Gardenias and Velvet, Remodel No. 17, 1935, Bywaters Special Collections, SMU.

33 fashion design sketches (plus one front cover), 1930s-1940s, were uploaded into the new Jake and Nancy Hamon Papers digital collection. Beloved Dallas philanthropist Nancy Hamon was also a talented artist, designing and redesigning her own takes on women’s fashion and haute couture in the 1930s-1940s. Highlights of this sketchbook include several pages, like this one, featuring multiple unique designs.

29 engravings, ca. 1820-1820, from Reise nach Brasilien in den Jahren 1815 bis 1817. This volume includes  the prints from the German prince Prinz Maximilian von Weid’s travels through Brazil in 1815-1817. Prinz Maximilian extensively documented his travels, especially his interactions with the native peoples of the area. Thus, most of these engravings depict native peoples, their belongings, and the areas they inhabited.

5 photographic prints, ca. 1892-1936, from Oklahoma locations and oil production photographs. These images depict oil fields, mills, and cattle drives across Oklahoma.

[Dallas Police Officers and Demonstrator, March of Justice for Santos Rodriguez], July 28, 1973, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

39 images, taken by Andy Hanson on July 28, 1973, at the March of Justice for Santos Rodriguez. These images, which were primarily taken in downtown Dallas near City Hall, show the demonstrations which arose in the aftermath of the death of Santos Rodriguez, a 12 year-old boy who was shot in police custody in Dallas four days before the march. Many of the images are contact sheet strips, depicting scenes of demonstrators with protest signs, local press and spectators, and masses of demonstrators gathered outside of the Dallas Municipal Building. This set of items contains a number of noteworthy images; one particularly striking photograph shows a march participant standing amid a group of police officers.

Tajn [sic] voladores. 17 of 36, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

97 color slides, 1948 and 1963, were added to the Isabel T. Kelly Ethnographic Archive. Highlights include 15 images of people performing the “Los Negritos” traditional folk dance, and

37 images of the high-flying acrobats known as “voladores” performing at the Corpus Christi festival. The slides were taken on two separate trips, one in 1948 and one in 1963.

25 postcards, ca. 1910-1920, from American border troops and the Mexican Revolution. The postcards were mostly taken on the Mexican-American border region from 1910-1920, depicting events from the Mexican Revolution and the Border War. Many of the postcards focus on rebel leader Pascual Orozco and the Battle of Ciudad Juarez.

770 issues of The Daily Campus, SMU’s student newspaper, from 1990, 1991, and 2010-2018. Highlights include articles on the groundbreaking and opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, centennial celebrations, and visits to campus by Katie Couric and Khaled Hosseini.

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CUL Digital Collections Update: May 2018

In May 2018, SMU’s Central University Libraries uploaded 554 items into CUL Digital Collections.

Highlights include:

Waco, in the heart of Texas, ca. 1936, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

27 documents, ca. 1885-1936, into the Texas: Photographs, Manuscripts and Imprints digital collection as part of the TexTreasures FY2018 grant program, sponsored by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Many chambers of commerce and trade organizations published the promotional literature featured in this upload into the collection. Cities and towns represented include Albany, Austin, Belton, Brownwood, Colorado City, Dalhart, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Houston, Jacksboro, Kemp, Kenedy, Marlin, Perryton, Plainview, Ranger, San Antonio, Santa Anna, Sweetwater, and Waco. Descriptions of commercial enterprises, municipal works, nearby natural resources, and leisure activities fill these works. Local advertisements are featured prominently. Pamphlets promoting Dallas, Houston, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Waco, and other larger cities contain reproductions of photographs of large buildings and other local points of interest. Promotional literature from smaller cities focuses on agriculture, land for sale, and the development of common buildings such as schools, post offices, churches, and banks.

[Port Blakely Mill, Locomotive 1, Erecting Card Drawing No. 6931], 1910, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

4 erecting card drawings, 1887-1920, from the Collection of Baldwin Locomotive Works Records, including a drawing for the Mexican National Railway, the Nevada California & Oregon Railroad, and two companies.

Voladores, postura al ”volar,” Corpus, 1963, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

101 color slides were added to the Isabel T. Kelly Ethnographic Archive.  These images, taken by Kelly and her friend and colleague, Bertha B. Harris, depict members of the Totonac people of Tajin, Veracruz, in traditional costume celebrating the feast of Corpus Christi. Many images feature the “voladores,” acrobats who “fly” high in the air over the crowd as they perform during these celebrations.

251 issues of The Daily Campus, SMU’s student newspaper, from 1988 and 1989. These issues include stories about fraternity house fires, police protests, and debates about the official language of the United States.

9 issues, 1952-1954, of the SMU News Digest, a periodic newsletter targeted toward parents of SMU students. Newsletter articles include stories about new acreage added to the SMU campus, Umphrey Lee’s retirement as president, and plans for new buildings being commissioned, including plans for Selecman Hall.

Watersmeet, The Cottage and Streams., ca. 1860-1870 by Francis Bedford, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

20 images, ca. 1860s-1880s, from the Jack and Beverly Wilgus History of Photography Collection. Taken in England, Ireland, and Wales, these photographs depict landmarks, cities, parks, and several homes, including Watersmeet House, now a national trust property in Devon, England. Also of note are images of quays, wharfs, and ports, including an image of a bustling Eden Quay in Dublin, Ireland.

7 items have been added to the The Record, Dallas Archaeological Society digital collection. Among the items are several early volumes of The Record from the 1940s, featuring hand-drawn illustrations of artifacts and burial sites found in Dallas and North Texas, and some more modern issues from the last 15 years, with photographs of discoveries and information in greater detail.

Sutler’s Store 20 cents (twenty cents) private scrip, 1862, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

34 obsolete or canceled notes, treasury warrants, and county, municipal, and private scrip circa 1862-1872 to the Rowe-Barr Collection of Texas Currency. The notes originate from the counties of Colorado, Gregg, Trinity, Tyler, Waller, Walker, Van Zandt, Upshur, and Uvalde, representing local currency from the cities of Canton, Gilmer, Gladewater, Huntsville, Uvalde, and Woodville. Among these cities are several small or vanished towns that were significant trading and industrial centers during the Civil War and late 1800s: Alleyton, the point of departure for wagons hauling cotton to Mexico; Jordan’s Saline, the predecessor of Grand Saline that was, likewise, founded on the salt trade, and Sumpter, a ghost town in Trinity County. The notes include the signatures of county clerks, chief justices, treasurers, and business owners. An especially unique note originates from a sutler’s store that operated near Camp Hebert during the Civil War.

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CUL Digital Collections Update: April 2018

In April 2018, SMU’s Central University Libraries uploaded 808 items into CUL Digital Collections.

Highlights include:

The story of the Highlands, ca. 1936, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

23 documents, ca. 1867-1936, into the Texas: Photographs, Manuscripts and Imprints digital collection as part of the TexTreasures FY2018 grant program, sponsored by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Two notable Texan writers are featured: Frank Reeves, Sr. was a journalist and photographer with an abiding interest in the cattle trade, agriculture, and in the American West. His writing has been published in several Texas newspapers, including The Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Reeves authored the short book, The Story of the Highlands, which contains his photographs as well as writing. William Gilliam Kingsbury, the Texas Commissioner of Immigration,  authored A Description of South-Western and Middle Texas…, published in London. The book, designed to attract British immigrants to Texas, contains advertisements for shipping companies and information about international travel and transportation.

Due Southwest : through fields of virgin soil : for the farmer and planter, stockman, lumberman and business man generally…, 1891, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

Other promotional materials contain information, illustrations, and photographs about Texas counties, towns, and citizens. Generally, they emphasize land values and purchasing or leasing opportunities; geographical attributes; crop production; railway facilities and travel; the size of populations; agricultural, soil, climate, irrigation, commerce, manufacturing, and employment conditions; banks and businesses; and schools and churches. Several booklets were sponsored by railroad companies whose main purpose was to attract passengers by highlighting the towns and counties along their train routes. One such document is the personalized bound volume, The Texas and southwestern railway guide and hand book for the State of Texas. Thirty-two railroads and routes with railroad schedules, the names of railroad officers, maps of railroad routes, and advertising are featured. Rail travel is frequently romanticized in these publications. Due Southwest : through fields of virgin soil : for the farmer and planter, stockman, lumberman and business man generally : a description of the country, traversed by the “Cotton Belt Route”…,1891, says, “We meet at Cairo, we voyagers by the Cotton Belt, but not by appointment, for we have not yet even scraped a passing acquaintance. We need not describe ourselves. We are typical Americans, intent on the business we have in hand, but not so absorbed by it that we are oblivious to our surroundings.”

Additional literature describing rail travel, the Texas coast, the Texas Short Line, and Texas in general originates from railroad companies, including: the Texas & Pacific Railway, Southern Pacific, the Memphis, El Paso, and Pacific Railroad Company, and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railway Company. These works include maps, summaries of local history, descriptions of the climate, lists of natural resources, and discussion of other points of interest in Texas.

Estatua de Cuahutemoc. [No. 163], ca. 1885-1889, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

22 photographs from the Collection of Abel Briquet views of Mexico. Highlights include three photographs of parks, two photographs of the statue of Cuauhtemoc, and a photograph of two men posed to fight, humorously titled “Un Pleito” (“A Lawsuit”).

1 photograph album, ca. 1923-1925, featuring images taken throughout Mexico. Areas appearing within the album include Mazatlan, Guanajuato, Morelia, and many more, and images show various landmarks, local residents and tourists, churches, and holidays, including Christmas and Palm Sunday.

1 city plan for the City of Brownsville, 1930-1931. This typewritten document features images of local landmarks and buildings, as well as geographic features, including the Rio Grande.

State of Texas $1.39 (one dollar and thirty nine cents) treasury warrant, 1865, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

1 diary kept by Sir Ellice Victor Elias Sassoon in 1929 to Sir Ellice Victor Elias Sassoon Papers and Photographs.

379 issues of The Daily Campus, SMU’s student newspaper, from 1985, 1986, and 1987. Included among the stories in these issues are reporting on the discovery of dinosaur bones in Texas, the completion of the Hughes-Trigg building, and commentary on continued parking shortages on campus.

58 obsolete and canceled notes and treasury warrants, ca. 1839-1865, to the Rowe-Barr Collection of Texas Currency. All notes were issued by the State of Texas in the city of Austin, with the majority dating to the U.S. Civil War. Most notes were authorized by Comptrollers Clement Reed Johns and Willis L. Robards, and the Texas State Treasurer, Cyrus Halbert Randolph. The notes list various payees as recipients of funds due for civil and military services.

144 color slides, 1940s-1960s, rom the Isabel T. Kelly Ethnographic Archive, illustrating the rich history and daily activities of the Tajin Totonac. During Kelly’s ethnographic fieldwork she interacted with local residents.  Kelly’s photographs allow viewers a candid glimpse into the lives of the Totonac people in the mid-20th century as seen in the portrait of Modesto Gonzalez, and the portrait of the daughter of Basillio Gonzalez. Kelly’s fieldwork also included surveys of major sites of historical importance to the Tajin Totonac including the archeological site of the Prehispanic city of El Tajin.  Kelly and her friend and colleague Bertha B. Harris photographed masterpieces of Mesoamerican architecture, including the Pyramid of the Niches and details of El Tajin’s many ball courts.

Also added from the Isabel T. Kelly Ethnographic Archive were 121 negatives, contact sheets, and inventories, created between 1947 and 1949. These images, taken in Mexico, illustrate the lives and culture of the residents of Tajin and Papalanta, including the Totonac Indians, a group of indigenous people who reside in the area. Images in this collection feature religious festivals and holidays, the construction of homes and other buildings, pottery work and textile crafts, and the daily lives of this area’s inhabitants. Of particular note are images of flying dances, or Danza de los Voladores, a Mesoamerican ritual strongly associated with the Totonac people.

Untitled, by Jerry Bywaters, Bywaters Special Collections, SMU.

45 drawings, cutouts, and sketches from the Jerry Bywaters Collection on Art of the Southwest. Bywaters created most of the art; however, Henry Nash Smith, Bob Howe, and Martha Jane Reed also made contributions. Self-portraits of Jerry Bywaters or portraits of Jerry Bywaters by others comprise the majority of the items. Other content includes landscapes; buildings, homes, and towns; handwritten notes; people, some associates of Jerry Bywaters; and fruit. Of special note are two self-portraits that contrast negative and positive space. Another interesting self-portrait is Self-Portrait Sketch, Paris – Imperator which is a profile portrait with a cityscape of Paris in the background.

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CUL Digital Collections Update: March 2018

In March 2018, SMU’s Central University Libraries uploaded 321 items into CUL Digital Collections.

Highlights include:

All about Texas: a hand book of information for the home seeker, the capitalist, the prospector, the tourist, the health hunter., ca. 1888 by John Frank Elliot, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

17 documents, ca. 1879-1906, into the Texas: Photographs, Manuscripts and Imprints digital collection as part of the TexTreasures FY2018 grant program, sponsored by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Promotional material in this addition covers a broad geographic area spanning from El Paso to the Gulf Coast near Houston. Three railroad companies — The Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railroad Company, The St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company and The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company — published short works that served as guidebooks for travelers and sightseers and provided general information about the climate, natural resources, and agriculture in Texas.

Agricultural resources of the Texas Pan Handle: on the Line of the Denver, Texas & Ft. Worth Railroad, ”Pan Handle route.”, 1888 [?], DeGolyer Library, SMU.

Also of note are two pamphlets focusing exclusively on immigration. Both are examples of literature produced by Texas immigration societies. One pamphlet from the Wilbarger Immigration Association, ca. 1890, promotes the settlement of Vernon in Wilbarger County. The small city’s aspirations can be gleaned from the pamphlet’s text, which begins by emphasizing the drawbacks of cattle drives and the faults of cowboys, and the moves to focus on the development of Vernon as a community devoted to agriculture and trade. Likewise, the Waco Immigration society’s pamphlet,

The Immigrant’s Guide to Waco and McLennan County, Texas, ca. 1884, focuses on the development of Waco’s urban society and familiarizes potential immigrants with the city’s economy and local businesses. Other similar pamphlets describe the cities of Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Abilene, San Antonio, Houston, and the Panhandle region, and promote the settlement of the Llano Estacado region, including Midland, Marienfeld (now Stanton), Big Spring, and other areas west of Abilene.

28 Treasury warrants and 2 Treasury bond certificates, ca. 1840-1879, from the Rowe-Barr Collection of Texas Currency. The notes originate from Travis County and show the evolution of printed currency in Texas from the middle years of the Republic of Texas to 1879, almost a decade after Texas was readmitted to the United States following Reconstruction and the Civil War.

7 items have been added to the Alvin Colt Design Drawings, Photographs, and Other Materials for Neiman Marcus Fortnights collection. These items are design drawings and promotional materials for the 1971 “Fête des Fleurs” Fortnight, including a beautiful color illustration of the proposed design for the Estée Lauder toiletries department.

A Zuni Court, 1881, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

50 glass lantern slides, ca. 1900-1920, from Lantern Slides of Indians. Among this set of items is A Zuni Court, 1881, which was used in a report compiled by the Bureau of Ethnology and given to  the director of the Smithsonian (John Wesley) in 1886.  The image was taken by ethnologist Victor Mindeleff for use in his analysis of covered passages in relation to Tusayan and Cibola architecture. This report was later compiled with other ethnographic data and presented to the U.S. House of Representatives during the 1891-92 session.

1 photograph album, ca. 1860s, from the Album de la Collection du Duc de Massa, Colonel des Guides de l’Empereur Napoleon III, containing cartes de visite portraits of various nobility and dignitaries related to the Second French Intervention in Mexico, also known as the Maximilian Affair. Included among the portraits are images of Maximilian himself, several of his family members, as well as Mexican soldiers and politicians. The latter half of the album contains images taken by the Duke de Massa, a high-ranking official in the court of Napoleon III.

12 photographs, ca. 1880-1890, from the [Collection of Mexico City and other Mexican cities photographs] including  a photograph of an elaborate coachbelonging to Emperor Maximilian I and a photograph of the interior of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City.

Belgium, ca. 1890s, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

47 photomechanical and photographic prints, ca. 1870 to the early 20th century, from the Jack and Beverly Wilgus History of Photography Collection. Among these items are a series of photogravures taken in and around Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of William Shakespeare. Images include Shakespeare’s childhood home, the ruins of the nearby Kenilworth Castle, and many scenes featuring local residents and buildings. Also among the photographs are a series of images taken in Londonand Edinburgh, as well as waterfalls in upstate New York, and portraits of women in Belgium and the Netherlands.

124 issues of The Daily Campus, SMU’s student newspaper, from 1984. Included among the stories in these issues are The Daily Campus‘s reporting on the university’s response to the increase in the legal drinking age, reviews on movies and The Simarillion, and a story about senior year gifts given to the campus.

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Preservation Week: April 22-27, 2018

April 22-28, 2018 marks Preservation Week, a nation-wide effort to increase awareness of the need to preserve collections, focusing on individual, family, and community collections. To celebrate Preservation Week, the Norwick Center for Digital Solutions (nCDS) will be offering a series of mini-workshops that will help you develop some of the basic skills that you will need to preserve any type of collection for future use. These workshops will touch on how to properly digitize a variety of materials (with live demos!), how to describe and caption materials for improved accessibility, and how to preserve digital files so that they can be accessed in the future.

These workshops are open to all — no matter the background or level of expertise. We want to be able to assist you in saving your stuff whether it be research created while at SMU or personal items that you wish to pass down to the next generation!

Preservation Week Workshops and Demos description:

Basic Digital Preservation Tools & Concepts

Monday, April 23, 2018: 10:00am-11:30am

In the digital age, digital files are ubiquitous. They are on laptops, phones, hard drives, and cloud storage. But are they safe from becoming obsolete or inaccessible? The answer is no! As the digital landscape continually changes, the digital content we create becomes harder to maintain and access. This hands-on workshop will help you learn strategies for properly organizing, storing, and preserving digital files and highlight some of the tools that are used for proper digital preservation.

Register here!

Media Digitization Demo

Monday, April 23, 2018: 1:00pm-2:00pm

Ever wonder how to digitize different kinds of physical media?  Rob Walker will lead a demonstration of the equipment and software used by the Norwick Center for Digital Solutions to turn analog materials like films, photographs, video and audio recordings into high-quality digital files.  Rob will also demonstrate some low-cost options for storing these files in “the cloud”.

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Basic GIF Making Using Historical Material

Tuesday, April 24, 2018: 10:00am-11:30am

GIFs created from movies, TV shows, artwork, etc. are ubiquitous on the internet.  This workshop will instruct participants on how to use image editing tools to create 3 types of GIFs using material from archival repositories. The instructor will lay out the underlying techniques that go into creating these GIFs step by step. The first part of the workshop will facilitate the use of several still images of an object to create a 3D like model. The second part of the workshop will help participants work with digitized video to create a looping video. The third part of the workshop will train participants to animate a piece of artwork.

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Scanning Lab

Wednesday, April 25, 2018: 10:00am-11:30am

Do you have a box of old photographs collecting dust in your closet?  Maybe some slides you’ve never been able to look at since you don’t have a projector? It’s time to scan them before they fade away. In this workshop, we will go over scanning basics as well as various ways to touch up the images in Photoshop.

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Closed Captioning

Thursday, April 26, 2018: 10:00am-11:00am

Learn how to use Youtube’s automatic closed captioning feature to help create accurate closed captions and transcripts of audio and video files.

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Large Format Photography

Friday, April 27, 2018: 10:00am-11:00am

Flatbed scanners can only accommodate up to a certain size object. So how do large format objects get digitized?  Participants will be shown what goes into capturing large format objects with high-end photography in a studio setting.  Feel free to bring an item (poster, map, photograph, etc.) of your own to be digitized!

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Cataloging Digital Objects

Friday, April 27, 2018: 1:00pm-2:30pm

Are you thinking about creating a digital collection or exhibit in Omeka? Do you have documents, images, audio/video files, or datasets you want to add to an online repository or YouTube? If so, the metadata you create will help more end users find your digital objects online. This metadata will also allow future generations to retrieve the items in a digital archive. In this workshop, you will learn basic best-practices for cataloging digital objects using Dublin Core metadata elements.

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CUL Digital Collections Update: February 2018

In February 2018, SMU’s Central University Libraries uploaded 460 items into CUL Digital Collections.

Highlights include:

“Galveston in a nutshell,”1904, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

34 documents, ca. 1875-1910, into the Texas: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints digital collection as part of the TexTreasures FY2018 grant program, sponsored by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Striving to attract immigrants to Texas, these promotional pamphlets, booklets, brochures, and maps usually describe soil and climate conditions, crop production, livestock, mineral resources, land prices, train routes, advertisements for local businesses, commerce, and industries. Some pamphlets refer to the Texas Constitution, specifically its Homestead Law, as a way to emphasize favorable land settlement conditions. Texas locations portrayed include Brazoria County, Cameron County, Dallas, Freeport, Galveston, Hemphill County, Lampasas, Lipscomb County, Pecos River Valley, Raywood, San Antonio, Texarkana, and Wichita Falls. Homes in Texas on the line of the International & Great Northern R.R., 1880-’81: International (Lone Star) Route is one of the most comprehensive guides, listing towns and parcels of land for sale or rent in 52 Texas counties. Published in 1904, “Galveston in a Nutshell,” delivers a rare window into historical photographs and written accounts about the rebuilding of the island city in the wake of the Great Storm in 1900. Many images and articles focus on various stages of the seawall’s construction and raising the city’s grade.

Health, beauty, prosperity: something of interest concerning Austin, the great capital of Texas, ca. 1890, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

Promotional material from Austin includes a souvenir album of images from the photographer Samuel B. Hill and a pamphlet from the Austin Board of Trade providing a summary of the city’s climate, businesses, and other features, ca. 1890. Similarly, many images from unknown photographers are featured in a pamphlet promoting the settlement of Dallas. This pamphlet was produced by Thomas William Field, an early citizen of Dallas. The photographs included feature the construction of Holy Trinity College, images of other early structures, and portraits of early citizens of Dallas, including former postmaster Charles H. Durgan and former mayor Dr. Sam B. Pryor. Munger Place, Dallas, Texas, ca. 1905, provides an interesting read for Dallasites or anyone wishing it was possible to invest in subdivision lots prior to the full development of East Dallas.

A couple of pamphlets focus on rhetorical and epistolary writing, and among these are a compilation of Horace Greely’s letters about Texas and the lower Mississippi region that he addressed to the farmers of Texas, and speeches Mr. Greely delivered in New York concerning the settlement of postbellum Texas. The latter pamphlet, entitled Through Texas, comprises a collection of writing that the journalist Walter Barlow Stevens published through the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. These letters appeared originally in the fall of 1892 in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and each “present a graphic picture of Texas, its social and industrial life blended into charming narrative.” Stevens’ writing is accompanied by ink illustrations on nearly every page, some of which depict events in Texas history and famous early Texans, including the infamous pirate Jean Lafitte.

Untitled [preliminary watercolor sketch on paper for The Surgeons], by Jerry Bywaters, Bywaters Special Collections, SMU.

96 sketches by Jerry Bywaters to the Jerry Bywaters Collection on Art of the Southwest. These sketches depict a wide variety of subjects, including landscapes of the U.S. Southwest, cities and towns, ranches, and people. The set contains a number of watercolors, including a preliminary watercolor sketch for Bywaters’s 1940 lithograph, The Surgeons.

314 issues of The Daily Campus, SMU’s student newspaper, from 1981, 1982, and 1983. Included among the stories in these issues are The Daily Campus‘s reporting on the appointment of the first female Supreme Court Justice, midterm elections in Texas, and coverage of a visit to SMU by Coretta Scott King.

[Arizona & New Mexico Tender Truck, Index No. 453-10], 1902, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

6 Baldwin Locomotive rosters from the Collection of Baldwin Locomotive Works Records. These rosters cover over 40,000 construction numbers, listing the company’s work from July 1910 through 1956.

1 detail drawing, 1902, from the Collection of Baldwin Locomotive Works Records for a tender truck for the Arizona & New Mexico Railway.

Emancipation Celebration. June 19- 1913, by George McCuistion, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

8 photographs, taken on June 19, 1913, by George McCuistion, from Collection of African American Photographs. These images depict Emancipation Day, or Juneteenth, celebrations in Corpus Christi in 1913. Many of the images feature men and women in horse-drawn carriages that were decorated for the celebration.

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CUL Digital Collections Update: January 2018

In January 2018, SMU’s Central University Libraries uploaded 196 items into CUL Digital Collections.

Highlights include:

Along the Rio Grande: scenes on the line of the Southern Pacific–Sunset Route in West Texas, ca. 1910s, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

47 documents, ca. 1878-1910, into the Texas: Photographs, Manuscripts and Imprints digital collection as part of the TexTreasuresFY2018 grant program, sponsored by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.  These pamphlets include promotional materials published by railroad companies, which feature scenic photography of Texas landmarks and notable features, such as the Rio Grande. Other promotional pamphlets advertise land and property, advertising regions throughout Texas, including the Panhandle and the Hill Country. The pamphlets describe and illustrate the most interesting and useful characteristics of each area, town, and city. Information about climate, soil quality, nearby bodies of water, and the range of agricultural possibilities available to settlers are usually included in these descriptions. One such pamphlet, The oasis of Texas, highlights the history of German immigration to central Texas, and the trials and tribulations settlers faced before discovering the area of the Hill Country Germans called “Little Germany.”

[Portrait of Mrs. Noble], by Ben Strauss, 1901, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

3 images, ca. 1840s-1901, from the Cockrell Family Papers. These images are: a salt print portrait photograph of Sarah Horton Cockrell, a cabinet card portrait photograph of Mrs. Cockrell with a short note from her son Frank on the verso, and a portrait photograph of a seated woman identified only as “Mrs. Noble.”

1 portrait photograph, ca.1980s-1990s, of Horton Foote has been added to the Horton Foote Photographs and Manuscripts collection. This headshot was taken by photographer David Spagnolo.

Rev. E.M. Griggs, B. Th., ca. 1903, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

57 images, ca. 1880s-1960s, from the Collection of African American Photographs. This collection features portraits of African American men, women, and children. Many of these images were taken at portrait studios throughout Texas, but others show their subjects in their homes, churches, or workplaces. Subjects range from children in baptismal outfits to soldiers in uniform to official portraits of clergymen, such as Rev. E.M. Griggs, District Secretary of the Southwestern District National Baptist Convention.

6 items from the SMU-in-Taos Records have been added to the Southern Methodist University Campus Memories collection. These include five brochures from the 1990s advertising the May term and summer session course offerings for SMU-in-Taos, and a flyer from the 1960s from the newly-opened Fort Burgwin Research Institute soliciting donations to support the center’s work.

Crimson Colt Football Issue, 1926, Bywaters Special Collections, SMU.

14 magazines, published between 1926 and 1935, from the Jerry Bywaters Collection on Art of the Southwest. Jerry Bywaters worked either as an editor or contributor to these publications, which cover a wide array of topics, but largely focus on the art and literature of the Southwest. Also among these periodicals are several issues of SMU’s student publication, The Crimson Colt, which Bywaters edited and illustrated.

The first Soviet steam-and-internal combustion locomotive, November 1939, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

11 images from the David Goodyear Collection of Foreign Railroad Photographs have been added to the Railroads: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints collection. These images of Soviet and pre-Soviet-era trains include a photograph of an armored train which was seized from the Bolsheviks, and a photograph of the Soviet streamlined locomotive, the “Joseph Stalin.”

1 map made by Jan Jansson in 1680, has been added to North America- Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints. This map shows the known world at that time, including parts of North and South America, and features an illustrated border with depictions of Roman gods, elements, seasons, and wonders of the world.

Stage Set for “Where the Dear Antelope Play,” by Jerry Bywaters, 1941, Bywaters Special Collections, SMU.

2 images from the Jerry Bywaters Collection on Art of the Southwest, including a portrait photograph of Barbara Maples and a black ink sketch by Jerry Bywaters of the stage set for “Where the Dear Antelope Play.”

9 photographs from the Alvin Colt Design Drawings and Photographs for Neiman Marcus Fortnights collection. These images are from the 1965 Austrian and 1966 French Fortnights.

1 drawing, 1911, from the Collection of Baldwin Locomotive Works Records. This erecting drawing is of a locomotive for Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad.

1 photograph from Collection of Photographs of Indians and the West. This photograph shows anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing and five members of the Zuni Indian tribe wearing full Zuni dress.

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CUL Digital Collections Update: December 2017

In December 2017, SMU’s Central University Libraries uploaded 196 items into CUL Digital Collections.

Highlights include:

The Texas Panhandle route.: From summerland to the American Alps…, 1892, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

24 documents, ca. 1890s-1930s, into the Texas: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints digital collection as part of the  TexTreasures FY2018 grant program, sponsored by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. These promotional pamphlets and booklets were written to inspire migration throughout the state of Texas, specifically aimed at potential land buyers. Texas counties included are Crosby, Dallam, Hartley, Goliad, Jackson, Kerr, Kenedy, and Sherman. Texas cities and regions include the Gulf Coast, San Antonio, and El Paso. Some pamphlets were sponsored by railroad companies as a method of marketing travel by rail. One example is The Texas Panhandle route.: From summerland to the American Alps… which includes a map of the Union Pacific Railroad Company’s train routes through states such as Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Oregon, Nevada, and California. A majority of these materials contain photographs of people living in the area, landscapes, crop production, and tourist and historical attractions in the towns and regions which are the focal point of that particular pamphlet or booklet. Testimonials from farmers and land owners are another common feature.

Kerrville and Kerr County Texas, 1905, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

Of special note is Kerrville and Kerr County Texas, published by J. E. (Jesse Edwards) Grinstead, owner and publisher of The Kerrville Mountain Sun. Mr. Grinstead was an American publisher, editor, writer, poet, and politician. Writing about 30 novels, as well as approximately 50 short stories and numerous articles, he became a popular Western fiction writer, with at least two of his stories becoming Hollywood films. In addition, his literary works were published internationally in Britain, Sweden, and Spain. His political career included a tenure as mayor of Kerrville and four years as their state representative to the Texas state legislature. At the time of his death, Mr. Grinstead reportedly left behind about 100 unpublished works, with three having been submitted for publication.

Room of the Mosaics, Mitla Ruins. [No. 650], 1904, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

54 photographs of Mexico, ca. 1904-1912, from the Album, Architectural Views of Mexico. These photographs are part of a travel album compiled by Myron Hunt. Highlights include

17 photographs by C.B. Waite, including three images of the elaborate carvings in the Mitla ruins.

Two photographs of Luther W. Clark, ca. 1901-1919, from Belo Records, 1842-2007. Clark was the editor-in-chief of The Dallas Morning News from 1900 until his death in 1919.

Along Bayou Teche, Bywaters Special Collections, SMU

76 sketches by Jerry Bywaters from the Jerry Bywaters Collection on Art of the Southwest. These images depict numerous settings throughout the southern United States, including mountains and ranches in the Southwest, buildings in Virginia and Ohio, and churches in various locales. Other images of note in this group of sketches are a number of pencil works of locations in Louisiana, including sketches of bayous, such as Bayou Teche, and of buildings and streets in New Orleans.

Panorama from Gray’s Peak. South West. [No. 1842], ca. 1892-1899, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

21 photographs, ca. 1892-1899, by William Henry Jackson from the Collection of William Henry Jackson Photographs. Highlights include

14 photographs of the mining boom town of Creede, Colorado, and a photograph of the surrounding area taken from Gray’s Peak, also in Colorado.

4 panoramas, ca. 1904-1911, by E.B. Downing y Cia, from the Giesecke Family Collection of Photographs and Panoramas of Mexico. Included among these images are three group portraits, two of which appear to have been taken in the same location on Reforma Avenue in Mexico City. The fourth panorama is an elevated view of San Luis Potosi taken from the governor’s mansion.

A Happy New Year, 1908, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

11 postcards from the Calvin Clyde, Jr. Collection of Postcards. These illustrated postcards, mailed between 1907 and 1925, primarily feature floral imagery or ‘’New Year’s babies’’ to illustrate their good wishes to the recipient.

3 blueprints, 1902, from Railroad Commission of Texas Interlocking Towers Records, 1902-1974. These blueprints relate to and illustrate various railroad engineering elements for railroads in Flatonia, Texas, including the blueprints for the intersection of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio and San Antonio & Aransas Pass railroads, manipulation charts for this intersection, and lock and dog sheets.

1 pamphlet, published in 1995 by James Early, discussing Robert Stewart Hyer’s tenure as president of SMU and his involvement with the design and construction of Dallas Hall.

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Happy Holidays from all of us at Southern Methodist University’ Central University Libraries!

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CUL Digital Collections Update: October 2017

In October 2017, SMU’s Central University Libraries uploaded 311 items into CUL Digital Collections.

Highlights include:

Mineral Wells, Texas, where America drinks it’s [sic] way to health., ca. 1930, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

37 pamphlets and broadsides, ca. 1880-1930, as part of the TexTreasures FY2018 grant program, sponsored by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The documents consist of printed ephemera promoting local businesses, Texas tourism, immigration to Texas, and the sale of land and real estate in Texas cities during the times of their founding and early expansion. The items include pamphlets promoting travel to cities large and small, including Memphis, Fredericksburg, Brownsville, El Paso, Corpus Christi, Laredo, Tulia, Amarillo, Plainview, Dalhart, Canyon, and San Antonio. More broadsides included in this addition advertise farms, ranches, and livestock for sale in rural areas across the state. Chambers of commerce, prominent citizens, local businesses, realtors, and land agents created these promotional materials to persuade prospective residents of Texas to immigrate.

A few items in this group represent specific and historically notable efforts at populating the state. One of these items is a pamphlet from the Franco-Texan Land Company, which was based in Weatherford and advertised in France. Other notable items include a pamphlet advertising home sites in Oak Cliff, which was created by the Dallas Land & Loan Company that founded the neighborhood; a broadside advertising Texas lands from the Ohio land agent, Henry H. Hannan; a promotional pamphlet for the city of Port Arthur, created by city founder, Arthur E. Stillwell, and published by his company, the Port Arthur Land Company; and a broadside promoting land in Kimble County printed on the stationery of Andrew Jackson Royal’s Texas Star Saloon in Junction City. Royal would later be elected sheriff of Fort Stockton, a career that culminated in his yet-unsolved assassination. Other notable figures include Knight Stith, a prominent citizen of Llano, and Judge Herman Henry Butz of Fort Stockton. Additional promotional materials include a pamphlet advertising the mineral-infused drinking water and health spas of Mineral Wells and broadsides featuring the prominent businesses of Del Rio and La Grange.

[Construction Site, El Cuije Dam], ca. 1900s, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

17 images, ca. 1883-1920s, from the Collection of Photographs of Mexico, primarily showing images in and around the Lequeitio estate in Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico. Included are the courtyard at the estate, a group portrait of estate staff, and interior views of a workshop and machinery. Also of interest are images of the construction of the dam at El Cuije and a hospital next to the Mexican Central Railway in 1883.

[Grand Basin, World’s Columbian Exposition], 1893, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

15 images, 1855-1909, from the Jack and Beverly Wilgus History of Photography Collection. Among these items are a number of portraits, including one of the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Of particular note is a salted paper print taken ofLieut. Col. Shadforth and Officers of the 57th., 1856, as well as several platinum prints of images taken at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893.

Copy of Report of Colonel Samuel Cooper…, June 14, 1851, a typescript copy of a report by Colonel Samuel Cooper, Assistant Adjutant General of the United States, of an inspection trip from Fort Graham, Texas, to the Indian villages near the Upper Fork of the Brazos River.

1 image, ca. 1880s, by Abel Briquet, from Collection of Abel Briquet Views of Mexico, of the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral.

Puerto de Mazatlan. ”Las Olas Altas.” Cerro del Vigia, el Creston, ca. 1860s, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

40 stereographs, ca. 1860s-1870s, from the Elmer and Diane Powell Collection on Mexico and the Mexican Revolution, of many locations throughout Mexico. Of particular interest is a stereograph of Creston Hill, the highest point and southernmost hill in Mazatlan, Mexico, and an elevated view of the city of Guanajuato taken from the nearby hill of San Miguel.

[Floor Display Design Sketch for Australian Fortnight], 1986, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

79 images have been added to the Alvin Colt Design Drawings, Photographs, and Other Materials for Neiman Marcus Fortnights collection. These include posters and advertising materials, photographs of floor displays from a wide range of years, and one design sketch from the 1986 Australian Fortnight.

24 documents from Sir Ellice Victor Elias Sassoon Papers and Photographs, ca. 1931-1961. Included among these are letters written by Sir Victor to his sister-in-law, Giulia Ottoboni, and other friends and family. Sir Victor writes about the construction of his home in China, parties and gatherings he attended, and of the political turmoil in India during this time period. Also of note are several speeches given by Sir Victor, the memorial address given in Bombay after his death, and letters from his sisters congratulating him upon the occasion of his engagement.

[Alan Alda and Roger Ebert, Audience Discussion, USA Film Festival, SMU], April 3, 1981, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

53 photographs from Andy Hanson Photographs, ca. 1960s-1980s. Celebrity photographs include Alan Alda, Jane Alexander, Michael Nesmith, Muhammad Ali, Marty Allen and Steve Rossi, Ed Ames, Lynn Anderson, Ann-Margret and Roger Smith, Ed Asner, Chet Atkins, Frankie Avalon, Richard Avedon, Michael and Pat York, Lauren Bacall, Paul Bartel, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Richard Benjamin, Tony Bennett, Jack Benny, and Milton Berle. Of special note is [Alan Alda and Roger Ebert, Audience Discussion, USA Film Festival, SMU], highlighting the renowned Dallas film festival that began in 1971 with the participation of SMU film professor Bill Jones.

[Striped Armchair], ca. 1941, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

36 letters, photographs, design drawings, and blueprints from the Stanley Marcus Papers. These materials relate to the renovation and redesign of the second floor of the downtown flagship Neiman Marcus store, which took place in 1940-41. Of interest are photographs of chairs and a settee which were custom-designed for the store by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings.

7 volumes have been added to the Southern Methodist University Rotunda Yearbooks collection. These yearbooks span the years 2006 through 2012.

1 lithograph, 1912, by Thomas Moran, featuring an image of the Grand Canyon in Arizona.

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View of Square, Garland, Tex.

This is a postcard of Garland Square, by Harrington and Cherry, ca. 1907-1915. It is part of the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas image collection, held by the DeGolyer Library.

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CUL Digital Collections Update: September 2017

In September 2017, SMU’s Central University Libraries uploaded 120 items into CUL Digital Collections.

Highlights include:

[Barack Obama and Joe Biden Jugate Inaugural Medal], 2013, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

6 presidential inaugural medals in the Hervey A. Priddy Collection of Presidential and Political Memorabilia, which depict each  president from President George H. W. Bush through President Barak Obama. The set includes the Barack Obama and Joe Biden Jugate Inaugural Medal which was designed in 2013.

Untitled (Silhouette of Jerry Bywaters), 1933, by Hariett Phillips Grandstaff, Bywaters Special Collections, SMU.

16 works of art in the Texas Artists – Paintings, Sculpture, and Works on Paper collection, including pencil works, relief prints, serigraphs, a lithograph in watercolor, a silhouette, a tempera painting, a charcoal drawing, and an aquatint. The majority of items were created by women artists. Among the items are studies of maguey plants, still lifes, people, and works which either portray an artist or artists at work. Of special note is Octavio Medellin at Work, Villita Art Gallery and Untitled (Silhouette of Jerry Bywaters).

1 booklet from the Doris A. and Lawrence H. Budner Collection on Theodore Roosevelt, showing the grounds and facilities of Jack Cooper’s training camp, a physical fitness center in Connecticut that President Roosevelt visited after his presidency.

Guide Map of Yellowstone National Park, 1939, a map that provides information to motorists visiting Yellowstone National Park, including lodging, rules and regulations, and a number of attractions.

Map of the Yellowstone National Park, 1886, a map and informational guide featuring a narrative written from the perspective of Lewis Carroll’s Alice from Alice in Wonderland. The guide was published by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company to promote their route to the Pacific Coast.

1 negative from Collection of Dallas Morning News Negatives and Copy Photographs showing the exterior of a woman’s college in Dallas.

City of Austin 12-1/2 cents (twelve and one half cents) municipal scrip, February 10, 1849, DeGolyer Library, SMU

50 obsolete and canceled scrip, notes, audited drafts, and treasury warrants, ca. 1836-1869, from the Rowe-Barr Collection of Texas Currency held by DeGolyer Library. Uploaded were notes and other forms of currency dating from the establishment of the Provisional Government of Texas in 1836 to the Reconstruction era after 1865. Municipal scrip originate from Washington-on-the-Brazos and the city of Austin. County scrip originate from Wharton, Williamson, Wilson, and Wood counties. Audited drafts originate from Austin, Washington-on-the-Brazos, and the Provisional Government of Texas. Also included is a treasury bond certificate from Austin, treasury warrants from Austin and Washington-on-the-Brazos, and city land scrip from Washington-on-the-Brazos. Several of these notes, scrips, drafts, and warrants were issued to pay participants in the Texas Revolution and U.S. Civil War for military service and supplies. Private scrip also originate from the Corporation of the City of Washington in Washington-on-the-Brazos and from the companies of W.C. Wilson & Co., Bailey, Gay & Co., R.C. Martin, and Bishop Blythe & Co.

The locomotive Commodore, built by the New Jersey Locomotive Works, derailed by the Confederate cavalry on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, in the fall of 1863,  DeGolyer Library, SMU

4 Baldwin Locomotive rosters from the Collection of Baldwin Locomotive Works records. The rosters each cover 5,000 construction numbers, and these four volumes list the company’s work for the years 1889 through 1907.

8 photographs relating to the Orange and Alexandria Railroad used by the Union Army. Of particular interest is a photograph of the aftermath of the derailment of the “Commodore” locomotive by the Confederate army after the Battle of Second Manassas.

5 items from the Lucy Pier Stevens Papers, including the diary Lucy Pier Stevens kept between 1865 and 1867. Among the items uploaded are ephemera including newspaper clippings with various items of trivia, a cloth list, and a note to Lucy from a family member.

[Unknown (Proposal), Erecting Card Drawing No. 1744], 1902, DeGolyer Library, SMU

4 drawings from the Collection of Baldwin Locomotive Worksrecords. These drawings, from  the years 1902 to 1909, include a proposal for an unknown railroad client

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Early Aviation Album: Photographs of Early Flights and Aeronautical Pioneers

    Now available online are 316 images, ca. 1910-1916, by Captain Harry A. Erickson of the United States Air Service. The photographs, which are part of an album held by the DeGolyer Library, depict early planes and aviation pioneers. The images show early air shows, the testing and successful flight of seaplanes and floatplanes, and activities on North Island, San Diego, where the aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss had a flying school until the breakout of World War I. Curtiss biplanes, seaplanes, and floatplanes feature prominently throughout the album, as do Wright aircraft, Antoinette monoplanes, and Martin aircraft. Notable early aviators, many of whom belonged to the group known as the Early Birds of Aviation, also make appearances in this album. Among them are Farnum Fish, Roy Knabenshue, Lincoln Beachey, Archibald Hoxsey, Charles Hamilton, Victor Herbster, Theodore Ellyson, Julia Clark (one of the first female pilots), among many more.

Miss Julia Clark, Aviatress., ca. 1911, DeGolyer Library, SMU. 

     Early flight was a risky venture. The album shows airplane accidents, crashes, and mishaps. Notable among these are images of the last flight of Archibald Hoxsey, who set an altitude record of 11,474 feet in his Wright Model B on December 26, 1910. Hoxsey was killed five days later while attempting to break his own altitude record at an airshow in Los Angeles. The Wright Brothers, who had employed Hoxsey, personally paid for his funeral. Other aeronautical accidents include Victor Herbster’s crash of his Wright B seaplane, which occurred in March 1912. Herbster was a member of the first Naval Aviation unit, which was training on North Island with Glenn Curtiss at the time of the crash.

Hoxey [sic] Reading Barograph, 1911., DeGolyer Library, SMU.

    North Island was the site of many flying firsts, including one of the first flights of heavier-than-air seacraft off of water. This flight was performed in a modified Curtiss pusher, which took off from San Diego Bay in 1911 and was piloted by Glenn Curtiss himself. Other images of seaplane and floatplane flights show Curtiss flight school students and pilot instructors in dual-control Curtiss floatplanes, early Curtiss F seaplanes in flight over San Diego Bay, and Glenn Curtiss piloting an early floatplane to the shore where a crowd of spectators gathered to view it.

[Crowd Gathered Around Floatplane], ca. 1911, DeGolyer Library, SMU. 

    Shortly before the beginning of World War I, the U.S. Army established a flight school on the south end of North Island. Here Army officers received flight instructions from Glenn Curtiss and a number of other pilots, including Doc Wildman. Among the officers under instruction in the 1914-1915 time period was Walter Taliaferro, for whom Camp Taliaferro, a World War I flight training center in Fort Worth, Texas, was named. Also on North Island at the time was Katherine Stinson, an early female pilot who is credited as being the first woman to fly over London and the first to fly at night. Stinson was a member of the Stinson family, a prominent aviation family from San Antonio, Texas, who founded the Stinson Aircraft Company.

Hallett, Morris, Catherine [sic] Stinson, Lt Sutton, Lt Morrow, Lt Bowen and Lt Taliaferro., ca. 1914, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

    This fascinating album offers a glimpse into the early days of aviation in the United States, and showcases the wide array of aviation events and activities occurring during the period before World War I. The images contained within the album depict not only early airplanes, but also their development over the course of a number of years, and portray some of the early versions of the more well-known aircraft, such as the Curtiss J-N “Jenny,” which was used throughout World War I. Images of these early planes, as well as the men and women who flew them, give important insight into the early days of flight in the United States.

Sources:

Ralph Cooper, “Victor D. Herbster, 1885-1946,” Early Birds of Aviation, Inc., http://www.earlyaviators.com/eherbste.htm

“Hoxsey’s Winnings for His Mother,” New York Times, January 2, 1911, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/01/02/104852875.html?pageNumber=1

Dee Wedemeyer, “Katherine Stinson Otero, 86, Dies; Pioneer Aviator and Stunt Flier,” New York Times, July 11, 1977, http://www.nytimes.com/1977/07/11/archives/katherine-stinson-otero-86-dies-pioneer-aviator-and-stunt-flier.html

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CUL Digital Collections Update: July 2017

In July 2017, SMU’s Central University Libraries uploaded 326 items into CUL Digital Collections.

Highlights include:

Fort Bliss, Tex. ca. 1910-1919,  George W. Cook Dallas/Texas Image Collection, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

149 real photographic postcards, ca. 1900-1923, from the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas Image Collection, as part of the TexTreasuresFY2017 grant program, sponsored by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Photographers include Marcus Black, Francis King Duncan and Margaret Louise Duncan, William W. Monteith, Roy Jernigan, Charles and Luisa Flanders, Earl Shipman, Zeva B. Edworthy, Albion Morgner Windhorst, Walter H. Horne, H.J. Brauning, Rufus Frank L. Wiseman, and others. Several photographs focus on military activities and former frontier forts. Among these are a view of the building Robert E. Lee occupied in Fort Ringgold before the Civil War, a street scene in Rio Grande City with a banner welcoming the 16th Cavalry, a view of the Kansas City, Mexico, the Orient railroad station in Fort Stockton, a scene of everyday life in Fort Davis, and a historic photograph of Fort Bliss.

Mosquito Fleet, 1915, Galveston, George W. Cook Dallas/Texas Image Collection, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

Tarrant County is another focal point. Photographs show the city of Polytechnic before it was incorporated into Fort Worth, construction and flooding, and scenes of Lake Worth. Galveston and Fredericksburg are also represented. Photographs of Galveston feature the Hurricane of 1915, Texas Heroes Monument, the interior of the city’s Union Depot station, the sea wall, ships, beach-goers, and the city’s Electric Park, an amusement park located near the beach. One notable image of this park is Electric Park at Night. Galveston, which illustrates the magnificence of electricity, a relatively new invention at the time. Photography of Fredericksburg shows the historic Nimitz Hotel, scenes of city life and local buildings, a local band, an Independence Day parade, the Gillespie County Courthouse, and bird’s eye views of the town.

Lake Eyrie Power Plant, ca. 1908-1910, George W. Cook Dallas/Texas Image Collection, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

Businesses and industries depicted include the Lake Erie Power Plant in Handley (now incorporated into Fort Worth); workers in Grand Saline’s salt mining industry; a harvest of melons in Hempstead; cotton gins in Gonzales, Groesbeck, and Hearne; a storefront in Harrisburg; the Hot Well and Sanatarium in Hubbard; the Hico Roller Mills Elevator building during a flood; people gathered on the shore of the Rio Grande near a U.S. Customs House; and construction workers in Grand Prairie. Other noteworthy scenes include photographs of automobile races in Granger, a Fourth of July parade in Hidalgo, saloons in Hondo, the town of Hico covered in snow, and churches in Grand Prairie, Grandview, Hubbard, and Hearne. Still more photographs show street views, scenes of everyday life, and buildings in Forney, Friona, Frost, Fulshear, Gainesville, Garland, Gay Hill, Giddings, Glen Rose, Goliad, and Gonzales.

Three panoramas from the Giesecke Family Collection of Photographs and Panoramas of Mexico, taken by E.B. Downing and Kurt P. Giesecke. These images include mining operations in rural Mexico, featuring miners’ dwellings and industrial buildings. Also among the panoramas is a scene taken at the Columna de la Independencia in Mexico City during the Mexican Centennial celebrations.

Beef Takes the Presidential Chair, 1885, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

18 items, created between 1833 and 1920, from the Hervey A. Priddy Collection of American Presidential and Political Memorabilia, including images of badges, buttons, tokens, and medals relating to several presidential campaigns and inaugurations. Of particular interest is Beef Takes the Presidential Chair, a medalet which satirizes the size and policies of President Grover Cleveland on the occasion of his first inauguration. The medalet features a bison, which references Buffalo, New York, where Grover Cleveland had been mayor, and a harpy meant to represent his opponent, James Blaine.

1 photograph of a French Military light railway train from World War 1 was added to Europe, Asia, and Australia- Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints.

3 photographs from the Mexican Revolution era were added to the American Border Troops and the Mexican Revolution series in the Mexico: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints collection, including a photograph of Santiago Pescador,which he dedicated to his cousins “with affection” in a handwritten note on the verso.

Hockaday School Groundbreaking, Summer 1960, by Kurt W. Boris, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

1 photograph of the groundbreaking ceremony for the Hockaday School, featuring Stanley Marcus, J. Erik Jonsson, and Robert L. Thornton, who was then the mayor of Dallas, was added to the Stanley Marcus Papers.

1 stereograph of a building in a field by Louis de Planque and 1 photograph of a street, possibly in El Paso, by Francis Parker were added to the Texas: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints collection.

2 stereographs by W. Henry Brown depicting Santa Fe, New Mexico and 2 stereographs by Alexander Gardner which show the areas near Union Pacific Railway lines in Kansas were added to the U.S. West: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints collection.

Machine Gun Truck, ca. 1910-1918, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

28 postcards and photographs by Abel Briquet, Walter Horne, C.B. Waite, Sanchez Cruz, and Yanez y Guillen from the Elmer and Diane Powell Collection on Mexico and the Mexican Revolution. These images depict scenes on the border during the Mexican Revolution, including photographs of Camp Stewart and U.S. forces in the area at the time. Also included are images from Abel Briquet’s Tipos Mexicanos series, which attempt to depict ordinary life in Mexico at the time the photographer was working there. Among these scenes are Indian water carriers and a huacalero, or a hen coop carrier.

Yegar [sic] a Mexico, ca. 1910-1916, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

117 photographs and postcards, ca. 1910-1924, from the Elmer and Diane Powell Collection on Mexico and the Mexican Revolution,featuring images of the Convention of Aguascalientes and the Decena Tragica, a ten-day event during which President Francisco Madero and Vice President Jose Maria Pino Suarez were assassinated in a coup. The album was owned by General Agustin Maciel, who appears in several of the photographs. Noteworthy images include photographs of Francisco Madero and Jose Maria Pino Suarez taken a few days before their assassinations, as well as a number of images of Victoriano Huerta, who organized the coup against Madero and became president of Mexico following Madero’s death. One image shows Huerta arriving in Mexico City with a group of women and children, possibly his family.

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CUL Digital Collections Update: June 2017

In June 2017, SMU’s Central University Libraries uploaded 631 items into CUL Digital Collections.

Highlights include:

Mary Allen Seminary, ca. 1906, George W. Cook Dallas/Texas Image Collection, DeGolyer Library, SMU

150 real photographic postcards, ca. 1900-1920, from the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas Image Collection as part of the TexTreasures FY2017 grant program, sponsored by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Highlights include Jackson Elvis “Jack” Hendricks’s photographs showing repairs underway on the M.K.&T line near Denison after a 1908 flood and Marcus Black’s photograph of Texas’s first college for African-American women, the Mary Allen Seminary. Also included are photographs by Walter H. Horne, Frank T. Jones, John Bethel Lasater, Karl Sloan Swafford, and many others. These images capture scenes from early 20th century Texas spanning the state from the beaches of Aransas Pass to the plains of Amarillo. Typical scenes are views of daily life and street views of cities showing homes, courthouses, churches, saloons, schools, railroad depots, and more. Outdoor scenes show city parks, caves, rivers, lakes, and bridges.

First Court, Colorado County, Republic [of] Texas, 1837, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

Other notable scenes include the 13th Cavalry on parade in El Paso, a street view of Electra showing the Texas Company Building prior to the company’s name change to Texaco Inc., and historic buildings such as the Paso Del Norte building, the Princess Louise Hotel, and the courthouses of Matagorda and Nueces counties. Two unique items are Wheat Harvest Time showing a crowd of men, horses, and wagons gathered on the main street of Canadian, Texas; and of historical significance is First Court, Colorado County, Republic [of] Texas, 1837, picturing the large oak tree used as the first courthouse west of the Brazos River. Towns and cities depicted in this month’s upload of postcards include Abilene, Albany, Alvarado, Alvin, Amarillo, Anna, Atlanta, Aransas Pass, Arlington, Austin, Bartlett, Bastrop, Beeville, Bellville, Bend, Big Creek, Big Springs/Big Spring, Blessing, Blooming Grove, Bloomington, Bracketville, Brady, Brenham, Briggs, Brownwood, Burnet, Byers, Cameron, Canadian, Carmine, Carrollton, Celeste, Christine, Cisco, Clifton, Coleman, Colorado, Columbus, Comfort, Como, Conway, Copperas Cove, Corpus Christi, Crockett, Crowley, Cuero, Dalhart, Dayton, Del Rio, Denison, Eagle Lake, Edna, El Campo, Electra, Elgin, Eliasville, El Paso, Farmersville, Ferris, Fluvanna, Follett, and Hillsboro.

Untitled (self-portrait), ca. 1937, by Mary Elizabeth Beasley Nye. Gift of Mr. Eric Beasley Nye, Bywaters Special Collections, SMU.

6 prints, including four by Mary Elizabeth Beasley Nye and two by William Elliot, ca. 1930s-1940s. Included among the prints are a self-portrait of Nye and images of various buildings, Cripple Creek, Colorado, and an African-American man.

11 photographs, ca. 1880-1925, featuring images of locomotives, railroad workers, and other scenes relating to the Union Pacific Railroad Company. Noteworthy photographs include an image of a Union Pacific locomotive on the Devil’s Gate Bridge in Georgetown, Colorado, and a baggage car that was destroyed during a robbery.

Untitled, Tempera Painting of Davy Crockett for 1936 Texas Centennial by Jerry Bywaters, Bywaters Special Collections, SMU.

142 works on paper by Jerry Bywaters, featuring sketches, watercolors, painting studies, and relief prints of various locations, objects, and people throughout Texas and the greater Southwest. Of particular interest are poster designs, two of which feature Davy Crockett, which Bywaters created for the Texas Centennial celebration in 1936. Also featured are a number of sketches and studies Bywaters created in preparation for finished paintings, including sketches created while designing “Loading Cotton,” a mural which was painted for the Houston Parcel Post Building.

Seven mugshots of the gangster Machine Gun Kelly and his gang of associates, taken in Oklahoma City after the group was arrested for the kidnapping of the oilman Charles F. Urschel in 1933. Included in this group is Machine Gun Kelly’s wife, Kathryn and her mother, Ora Shannon.

[Curtiss F-Boat on Water], ca. 1910-1914, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

315 images attributed to Captain Harry A. Erickson from the Early Aviation and Northrop Aircraft Corporation Albums, featuring images of early planes, aviation pioneers, and the early days of the United States Signal Corps Aviation School. Notable images include photographs of Julia Clark and Katherine Stinson, two of the earliest female pilots. Other pilots shown in the album are Lincoln Beachey, Walter Taliaferro, Farnum Fish, Theodore Ellyson, Glenn Curtiss, Doc Wildman, Archibald Hoxsey (including images of his fatal final flight), Art Smith, and many others. Also featured in this album are early versions of floatplanes and seaplanes, including images of some of the first ever flights off of water, taken at North Island, San Diego, California.

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CUL Digital Collections: May 2017

In May 2017, SMU’s Central University Libraries uploaded 1,000 items into CUL Digital Collections.

Highlights include:

[Anson Jones Letter to Mary Jones, 1841 December 22], George W. Cook Dallas/Texas Image Collection, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

207 items from the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas Image Collection as part of the TexTreasures FY2017 grant program, sponsored by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Highlights include 22 documents, including letters by Robert Gaston, a Confederate soldier;letters and a certificate from the papers of Anson Jones, the last president of the Republic of Texas; documents relating to the Peters Colony, which was formed by a grant made in 1841 by the Republic of Texas to William S. Peters and his associates; and souvenirs from the State Fair of Texas from 1886 and 1888.

Also added to the Cook Collection are 185 real photographic postcards, including portraits of people from the early 20th century who lived in Dallas; homes and places in various Dallas neighborhoods; the U. S. Army participating in maneuvers at the 1915 State Fair of Texas; musical groups such as the Lester Harris Orchestra making an appearance at the Hotel Adolphus; and Art Smith, a young aviator, test pilot and instructor during World War I, who died in 1926 (the second overnight mail service pilot to die on the job). Also included are photographs by Charles Wanner, an amateur photographer who documented his life in Dallas in the 1910s .

Night of January 16th, March 29, 1937, Little Theatre of Dallas, Bywaters Special Collections, SMU. The play was written by Ayn Rand; cover art by E. Roland Wilkinson.

39 programs, 1930s, from the Little Theatre of Dallas Collection. Productions include works by Alexandre Dumas, Anatole France, W. Somerset Maugham,  George Bernard Shaw, Ayn Rand, Henrik Ibsen, Noel Coward, Thornton Wilder, and Eugene O’Neill. Of note is the playbill for “Autumn Crocus” by Dodie Smith, best known as the author of The One Hundred and One Dalmatians. On the playbill, Smith uses her pen name, C. L. Anthony.

7 stereographs, ca. 1875-1889, by Abel Briquet from Vistas Mexicanas, showing Ferrocarril Mexicano railway bridges in various states of construction, completion, and use in the Mexican state of Veracruz. Also shown are the locales of Orizaba, Maltrata, Atoyac, and Barranca Infiernilla, or the “Little Hell” canyon, showing the development of rail travel in Veracruz ca. 1875.

[Velma Davis Dozier and Esther Webb Houseman Working on Metal Pieces], ca. 1940, Bywaters Special Collections, SMU.

47 photographs and ephemera, mostly ca. 1930s-1940s, from the Esther Webb Houseman Art Work and Papers collection, featuring images of Houseman’s metalwork; the interior and workroom of the Dallas School of Creative Arts, which Houseman established in 1935 and maintained with fellow artist Velma Davis Dozier; various advertisements for Houseman and Dozier’s artwork and metalsmithing services; and personal images of events, parties, and gatherings. Together, Houseman and Dozier were known as the Lady Blacksmiths, a name which features prominently in many of their advertisements and catalogs.

700 issues of The Daily Campus, SMU’s student newspaper, from 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, and 1981. Highlights from each year include:

The Daily Campus, Volume 64, Number 30, October 18, 1978, SMU Archives.

1976: 120 issues of The Daily Campus, including coverage of administrative shakeups and controversies, the rising cost of tuition, and the formal recognition of sororities and fraternities as student organizations.

1977: 125 issues of The Daily Campus, including extensive reporting on the university budget deficit. Also featured is an article about the fight for wage equality among SMU faculty members, with quotes from current SMU English Professor Bonnie Wheeler.

1978: 133 issues of The Daily Campus, including coverage of a visit to SMU’s campus by the Brazilian football player Pele, who had Q&A with students in Dallas Hall in October.

1979: 128 issues of The Daily Campus, including reporting on Gloria Steinem’s visit to campus in September, when she gave a talk about various topics relating to feminism.

1980: 128 issues of The Daily Campus, including interviews with students about who they think shot J.R. in the TV series, Dallas, and a visit by Henry and Jane Fonda to the Bob Hope Theatre for the play, “The Oldest Living Graduate,” where Henry Fonda was under contract for playing a major role. The play was televised locally.

1981: 66 issues of The Daily Campus, with reporting on the return of 20 American hostages immediately following Ronald Reagan’s inauguration.

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