New digital collections unveiled at Southern Methodist University's Central University Libraries

Southern Methodist University's Central University Libraries (CUL) recently unveiled five new digital collections. These new collections are part of CUL's ongoing effort to digitize and to make the university’s unique special collections available on the Web.

These online collections, which the Digital Services staff created using CONTENTdm Digital Collection Management Software, provide anyone around the world the ability to access a variety of text, videos and images.

CUL's new digital collections are in the areas of the University's history, corporate history and World War II. The five new digital collections include:

JCPenney Dynamo Newsletters - This collection contains samples of JCPenney's corporate magazine, which provided company news, inspirational messages and sales training from 1917-1932.

SMU Video Archive Series - Former SMU executives, administrators and academics recount times of great excitement, challenges and/or change at SMU in these video-based oral histories.

John N. Rowe III Collection of Texas Currency - A sample from DeGolyer Library's John N. Rowe III Collection of Texas Currency, which contains notes, scrip, bonds and other financial obligations, from the 1820s through 1935.

Sulphur Springs Collection of Pre-Nickelodeon Films - The Sulphur Springs Collection of Pre-Nickelodeon Films contains nine short movies: two comedies and seven films depicting the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Frank J. Davis World War II Photographs - Frank J. Davis' frontline photographs portray a medical photographer's life during World War II, including battlefield images from Italy, France, Germany and Saipan.

View all of CUL's Digital Collections

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