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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.

The science behind the Blaeu World Map

By RANDI RAGSDALE

miller papers open

Playwright Arthur Miller’s archive opens to researchers

By Harry Ransom Center

New digital resources launch online for study of human rights

By Harry Ransom Center

Doris Lessing

Celebrating 100 years of Doris Lessing

By Harry Ransom Center

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.

The science behind the Blaeu World Map

By RANDI RAGSDALE

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 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. Learn more

ink drawing by Aubrey Beardsley

Detecting forgeries of Aubrey Beardsley’s influential artworks

July 22, 2019 By Tracy Bonfitto

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