1,000 Texas Railroad Negatives from SMU’s DeGolyer Library are available online

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  • September 30, 2015 at 11:49 pm #5539
    luisflierl26
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    I just received the below email – great online digital archive….enjoy…DH

    to archivist, membership

    I am writing to let the Missouri Pacific Historical Society know that 1,000 Texas Railroad Negatives from the Everett L. DeGolyer Jr. Collection of United States Railroad Photographs are now available online in the Railroads: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints digital collection.

    The railroads included are Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (ATSF), Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company (FWD), Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (MKT, Katy), Missouri Pacific Railroad Company (MOPAC), St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company (SLSF), St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company (SSW, Cotton Belt), Southern Pacific Company (SP), Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company (TNO), and Texas & Pacific Railway Company (T&P).

    You can read more about the eight major Texas railroads depicted in the project, thanks to the generous support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services through a grant to the Texas State Library and Archives Commission as part of the TexTreasures program.

    The freely accessible files can be used for many purposes, including the study of Texas railroads, economic development, and transportation history, as well as Texas history, in general.

    Attached is a .pdf card that provides more details of the project. I hope you and your colleagues will help us get the word out by sharing the card or the online link to the Texas Railroad Negatives project.

    Please don’t hesitate to let me know if you have any questions. Of course, if you are ever in Dallas, I would be delighted to give you a tour of the Norwick Center for Digital Services, where we are charged with digitizing, cataloging and uploading thousands of items from SMU Central University Libraries’ special collections into the CUL Digital Collections web site.

    Cindy Boeke

    Digital Collections Developer

    Norwick Center for Digital Services

    SMU Central University Libraries

    PO Box 750135

    Dallas, TX 75275

    phone: (214) 768-4361

    [email protected]
    http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/all/cul/browse.asp

    October 2, 2015 at 5:57 pm #7303
    peggyrothschild
    Participant

    Great photos; I just did a Missouri Pacific search..[attachment=0:3e17cdf8]GP74202DeGoylar.jpg[/attachment:3e17cdf8][attachment=1:3e17cdf8]GP18-485DeGoylar.jpg[/attachment:3e17cdf8]

    October 2, 2015 at 6:50 pm #7304
    James Pruitt
    Participant

    Charlie,

    How did you copy the photos and keep the sizes. I tried, but they copied all cropped and cut up.

    Brian

    October 2, 2015 at 8:27 pm #7305
    alexortiz25
    Participant

    The GP7 in Jenks blue looks freshly painted and still has its original 4-digit road number. I always thought that Jenks blue began being applied around the same time as the 1962 renumbering.

    October 3, 2015 at 3:01 pm #7307
    kenris
    Participant

    My search for “Missouri Pacific” yeilded about 150 images from the DeGolyer collection. Hope SMU continues to add images.

    October 3, 2015 at 9:06 pm #7309
    peggyrothschild
    Participant

    @SD40-2C wrote:

    Charlie,

    How did you copy the photos and keep the sizes. I tried, but they copied all cropped and cut up.

    Brian

    I did a screen copy (control, alt, screen print) and the opened Adobe Photoshop and did a “copy from the clipboard”. Then just saved it as a jpg.

    October 6, 2015 at 12:15 pm #7316
    luisflierl26
    Participant

    I just noticed the embedded links she sent me in the email did not transfer over to this forum.

    Here is the link to all digital railroad collections

    http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/all/cul/rwy/

    In addition to MP, there are many more T&P, IGN, MKT, Frisco, and other Texas lines, some of the photos dating back to the 1800’s. They also have Baldwin builder cards, maps, and some other interesting items.

    In the top right corner above the photo is a DOWNLOAD button – you can then save the images to your harddrive. However the online images are higher resolution and you can use the zoom tool to get great detail on these photos.

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