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Ann-Christe Galloway G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n s  

The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries 
has received one of five grants from the 
Texas State Library and Archives Commission 
for the digitalization of special and unique 
collections of photographs, newspapers, 
interviews and other historical documents, 
making them more accessible to the general 
public. The UNT Libraries received a $24,637 
TexTreasures grant for its project, “Early 
Texas Newspapers: 1829–1861.” Partnering 
with the Center for American History at the 
University of Texas­Austin, the UNT Libraries’ 
Digital Projects Unit will microfilm and digi­
tize Texas newspapers that are currently the 
property of the Center for American History, 
and place these newspapers on the Portal to 
Texas History. The portal, administered by the 
Digital Projects Unit, provides students and 
others with a digital gateway to collections in 
Texas libraries, museums, archives, historical 
societies and private collections and contains 
primary source materials, including maps, 
books, manuscripts, diaries, photographs 
and letters. 

Acquisitions 

One of the earliest publications to use 
artificial, magnesium lighting in the photog­
raphy of a building’s interior, Camille Silvy’s 
Album de la Chapelle Royale Saint Louis, à 
Dreux, Eure et Loir (London: Rolandi, 1867), 
has been acquired by the Avery Architectural 
and Fine Arts Library. This publication consists 
of a letterpress pamphlet and ten albumen­
print cabinet cards (a frontispiece, three views 
of the chapel exterior, and six of monuments 
inside), as well as the original mailer, ad­
dressed to a printer and photographer in 
Silvy’s hometown of Nogent­le­Rotrou, France. 

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The royal mausoleum at Dreux is included in 
the defi nitive survey Neoclassical and 19th 
Century Architecture (1980), coauthored by 
Columbia University Professor Emeritus Robin 
Middleton and David Watkin. They describe 
it as a “fanciful Gothic cloche,” one of King 
Louis­Philippe’s “handful of maverick com­
missions” reviving medieval style. Executed in 
1842 according to designs by Pierre­Bernard 
Lefranc, the Gothic structure encased a Doric 
temple form built between 1816 and 1822 
by Charles­Philippe Cramail for the Duchess 
of Orleans. Silvy’s experiments with artifi cial 
lighting date back to at least 1865, when he 
presented trial prints of the six interior subjects 
included in Avery’s 1867 publication to the 
Société Française de Photographie. 

More than 70 years’ worth of photography 
providing a panoramic, insider’s look at the 
people and products involved in the rise of 
the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company is 
being donated to the University of Akron 
by the rubber industry giant. The collection, 
valued at more than $1.1 million, features 
more than 83,000 individual photos covering 
the period from 1912 to 1984. The collec­
tion provides historic, social, and industrial 
documentation, featuring images of prod­
ucts, workshop and factory scenes, facilities, 
company events, company­sponsored celeb­
rities and the development of the Goodyear 
Blimp. Among the highlights of the photo 
collection are the first home for Goodyear on 
the banks of the Little Cuyahoga River; con­
struction of the blimp hangar; baseball leg­
end Babe Ruth on the Goodyear Blimp; and 
images of other notable fi gures, including 
President Herbert Hoover, President Richard 
Nixon, President Dwight Eisenhower, Arnold 
Palmer, and Jack Nicklaus. The collection, 
which reflects the work of several photog­
raphers, was started in 1912 by Goodyear 
founder Frank Seiberling and stands as one 
of the fi rst corporate photograph collections 
to be established. 

October 2008  577 C&RL News 

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