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Explore stories inspired by the collections of writers and artists held at the Ransom Center, one of the leading humanities research libraries in the world.

Celebrate with us in 2023

By Harry Ransom Center

Tom Stoppard

Photographer Laura Wilson delves into the lives of writers with stunning portraits

By Harry Ransom Center

Early map of India

A childhood gift inspires a lifelong passion for India and map-collecting

By Aaron T. Pratt

Conservation

We provide a full range of preventive care and conservation treatments. Read stories about conservators and preservation technicians assessing and caring for collection materials.
Exhibition gallery

Women and the Making of Ulysses: A History in Ten Objects

By Harry Ransom Center

It is one thing for the Ransom Center to collect the papers of Nobel Laureates and another thing entirely to collect the papers of future Nobel Laureates.

Ransom Center Director Stephen Enniss on the archive of KAZUO ISHIGURO

In the galleries

One of the most celebrated objects in the history of photography, The Niépce Heliograph, is featured in a permanent exhibition just inside the main entrance to the Harry Ransom Center. The untitled photograph—the earliest known surviving photograph made with the aid of the camera obscura—was produced in 1827 by the French scientist and inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce using a process he called héliographie. Permanent exhibitions are never really “permanent,” however; objects may remain in place, but their meanings are always evolving, and exhibitions are periodically revised to reflect those advances.

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