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Central University Libraries (CUL) Digital Collections includes the online digital collections from the six Central University Libraries. Our ongoing projects include the creation of digital collections of SMU oral and photographic histories, politics, Southwestern art, Texas currency notes, specialized film collections, and more.

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CUL’s Norwick Center for Digital Services (nCDS) provides a full range of digitization and digital library services. NCDS works with CUL to scan, transfer and capture digital files for many types of original source formats; create web display and playback files for video, audio, image, and text; and develop metadata schema for digital collections and their related archives.

For more details about the extensible framework we have created to build digital collections using ContentDM, read our “SMU ContentDM Guide: Framework for Building a Collection.”

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Horton Foote: Photographs and Manuscripts

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Horton Foote's "The Midnight Caller"Horton Foote: Photographs and Manuscripts provides a sample of the photographs, images, albums, and more, relating to American author and playwright Horton Foote that are held by SMU's DeGolyer Library. These items depict Horton Foote's life and career.

SMU's Horton Foote papers, circa 1900-2001, comprises close to 200 boxes of material documenting the career of the Academy Award winning screenwriter and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright. The collection includes manuscripts, scrapbooks, handwritten drafts of screenplays, diaries, letters, photographs, and family memorabilia of the Wharton, Texas native who spent over 60 years in film, stage, and television.

The digital collection contains a variety of images and photographs of Horton Foote, his family, and his career. Some images are only available on campus at SMU due to copyright restraints.

Usage: Unless otherwise noted, these files may be used for educational and research purposes. Please cite Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library when using these image files. A high-quality version of these files may be obtained for a fee by contacting degolyer@smu.edu.

Contact Info: For more information about Horton Foote: Photographs and Manuscripts, please write to degolyer@smu.edu.