Selected Photographs from the DeGolyer Library provides a sample of the extensive photographic collections at the DeGolyer Library, which houses over 500,000 photographs. While collecting at the DeGolyer in general emphasizes the American West, the borderlands, and transportation, particularly the railroads, there are many unexpected images in the collection.
Included in the collection are views by many such well-known Western landscape photographers as: Andrew Russell, Alexander Gardner, William Henry Jackson, Charles Roscoe Savage, John Hillers, and Edward Curtis. In addition, there are images by Civil War photographers, including Timothy O’Sullivan, Barnard & Gibson and Russell.
The Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photography Collection, a new acquisition, is featured for the first time including rare and historic regional photographs, including 5,000 rare Texas images including portraits of Santa Anna, Sam Houston, Mexican American War and Civil War soldiers, frontier towns and views from throughout the state from the 1840s on and the only known portrait of Cynthia Ann Parker, who was captured as a girl by the Comanches and went on the become the mother of Comanche leader Quanah Parker.
Besides the wonderful 19th century material, works by such 20th century image-makers as Lynn Lennon, June Van Cleef and William K. Greiner are also included.
Photographs of Mexico by such masters as Abel Briquet, Hugo Brehme and Charles B. Waite are also represented. Also unique are the number of mid to late 19th century foreign made photographs from India, Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Included are examples of various formats: daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, stereographs, cartes de visite, photographically illustrated books, albumen and gelatin silver prints from ca. 1846 to 1999.
Usage: Some of the files in this collection are protected by copyright law. No commercial reproduction or distribution of these files is permitted without the written permission of Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries. All files may be freely used for educational purposes, provided they are not altered in any way, and Southern Methodist University is cited.
Contact Info: For more information about the Selected Photographs from the DeGolyer Library, please write to degolyer@smu.edu.