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Newspaper headline and photograph of a collapsed building

The Knickerbocker Theatre Collapse

Carl Van Vechten photograph of Billie Holiday

On the Record: Black Creators and the Jazz Age

Monte Monreal

Ransom Center experience leads to new challenge

Films represented in the Drawing the Motion Picture exhibition

Celebrate with us in 2023

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  • Photographer Laura Wilson delves into the lives of writers with stunning portraits
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  • Center Wins Archival Excellence Award
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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

For those fascinated by artists’ attempts to document live performance, the exhibition is a must.
—CHRISTINE GWILLIM Glasstire (March 18, 2023)

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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