April 7, 2014, Filed Under: PhotographyFrom the Outside In: Walker Evans’s Allie Mae Burroughs, 1936 The atria on the first floor of the Ransom Center are surrounded by windows featuring etched reproductions of images from the collections. The windows offer visitors a hint of the cultural treasures to be discovered inside. From the Outside In is a series that highlights some of these images and… read more
April 3, 2014, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Cataloging, Digital Collections, Research + TeachingCollection of diplomat’s seventeenth-century newsletters reveal insights into early English history and statecraft I must thank you for the chocolate and snuff you intend to send me, if it be perfumed with anything but orange or jessamin [jasmine] flowers, I had rather have plain, for I find all musk etc. hurts my head. William Bridgeman, Clerk to the English Secretary of State, London,… read more
March 31, 2014, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: How Polish poet Bolesław Leśmian’s manuscripts survived World War II and journeyed across three continents Dariusz Pachocki, an assistant professor in Polish studies at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin in Poland, worked in the Bolesław Leśmian papers at the Ransom Center in 2013. While here, he investigated the provenance of the collection and pieced together the long journey the papers took before their… read more
March 31, 2014, Filed Under: PhotographyFrom the Outside In: Fritz Henle’s Photograph, “Ruhr Miner,” 1967 The atria on the first floor of the Ransom Center are surrounded by windows featuring etched reproductions of images from the collections. The windows offer visitors a hint of the cultural treasures to be discovered inside. From the Outside In is a series that highlights some of these images and… read more
March 31, 2014, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, FilmRansom Center exhibits “Gone With The Wind” materials at TCM Classic Film Festival Turner Classic Movies (TCM), premier sponsor for the Harry Ransom Center’s upcoming exhibition The Making of Gone With The Wind, hosts its fifth annual TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood April 10–13. Within Club TCM, the gathering point for festival passholders in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, the Ransom Center will exhibit a… read more
March 28, 2014, Filed Under: Authors, Exhibitions + EventsQ&A With Julia Alvarez Acclaimed novelist, poet, and essayist Julia Alvarez speaks about her life and work with University of Texas at Austin professor Jennifer M. Wilks in a Harry Ransom Lecture this Monday, March 31 at 7 p.m. in Jessen Auditorium at Homer Rainey Hall. A book signing and reception follow at the… read more
