North America: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints

Washington Depot, with U. S.
Capitol in the Distance., 1872

A-Chippeway-Widow., 1842

Th: Jefferson, ca. 1835-1851

Cleveland Lighthouse on
Lake Erie., 1841

Illustration from Reconstruction
of Brooklyn Bridge: 1903.

About the Collection

Holding library: DeGolyer Library

Overview 

North America: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints digital collection provides a sampling of the holdings related to North America in SMU's DeGolyer Library. The accessions in this collection portray the United States, as a whole; the U.S. Northeast, Southeast, and Midwest; and/or Canada.

Holdings and Highlights

In the North America: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints digital collection, the DeGolyer Library has made available a growing number of its accessions:

• Act of incorporation and by-laws of the Suffolk Savings Bank for Seamen and Others, 1870
• [Collection of stereographs of people and animals]
• Columbian Naval Parade: The April 27, 1893, parade was held in conjunction with the World's Columbian Exposition, which commemorated Christopher Columbus' arrival in the in the New World 400 years earlier. The 48 images include ships from the U.S. Navy, as well as vessels from other countries. Also included are images of replicas of the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria. 
• Frank Modoc: A Modoc Indian and Minister of the Gospel of Christ, 1886, a 24-page pamphlet by the Indian Department of the Women's Foreign Mission Society of Friends of New England.
• History of the Indian tribes of North America, with biographical sketches and anecdotes of the principal chiefs, including History of the Indian tribes of North America, Volume 1 and History of the Indian tribes of North America, Volume 2, embellished with one hundred and twenty portraits, from the Indian gallery in the Department of War, at Washington. By Thomas L. M'Kenney and James Hall.
• Illustrations to Maximilian, prince of Wied's Travels in the interior of North America, 1844
• New York Bridge Drawings, 20 illustrated contract drawings, 1903-1909, for the Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Blackwell's Island Bridges.
• Photographic Views of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road, and Its Branches, from the Lakes to the Sea, a photographically illustrated book with views taken along the railroad line from Baltimore to Chicago showing Baltimore harbor, the U.S. Capitol, depots, bridges, viaducts, stations, roundhouses, mills, hotels, rivers, towns, cities, P & C RR [Pittsburgh & Connellsville Railroad], baths at Berkley Springs, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Chicago, Illinois.
• United States Presidents and Vice-Presidents, including steel engravings of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Also, a colored lithograph portrait of Andrew Jackson, the hero of New Orleans, and a portrait of George M. Dallas, the people's candidate for Vice-President, who ran on the Democratic ticket with James K. Polk, and a colored lithographic print of President Theodore Roosevelt, and William McKinley.