November 11, 2013, Filed Under: Digital Collections, Research + TeachingDigital collection features more than 8,000 items The Ransom Center has launched a new platform of freely available digitized images of collection materials on its website. The new site contains more than 8,000 items and will continue to grow as newly digitized images are added on a regular basis. Presently the collection includes photographs by Lewis Carroll,… read more
November 8, 2013, Filed Under: Art, Digital Collections, PhotographyFor his most famous child portrait, Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) drew inspiration from an eighteenth-century painting The Ransom Center recently launched a new platform of digital collections on its website, which includes the Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) photography collection. More than 50 items from that collection, including the portraits highlighted in this blog post, can be viewed on the new platform. Posing for the… read more
November 8, 2013, Filed Under: Digital Collections, Theatre + Performing ArtsArtifact in Harry Houdini scrapbook collection highlights career of mind reader “The White Mahatma” The Ransom Center recently launched a new platform of digital collections on its website, which includes the Harry Houdini scrapbook collection. More than 50 items from that collection, including the scrapbook highlighted in this blog post, can be viewed on the new platform. American magician S. S. Baldwin (1848–1924),… read more
November 8, 2013, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Cataloging, Digital Collections, Research + TeachingNew inventory of manuscript collection reveals unprecedented level of detail for scholars of British history The Ransom Center recently published a new finding aid for one of its richest collections of early manuscripts: the Carl H. Pforzheimer collection of English manuscripts. The bulk of the manuscripts were acquired in 1986, along with 1,100 other rare early printed editions of English literature that form the Pforzheimer… read more
November 8, 2013, Filed Under: Digital Collections, Film, Research + TeachingNew digital collection highlights work of early special effects creator Norman Dawn The Ransom Center recently launched a new platform of digital collections on its website, which includes the Norman O. Dawn collection. More than 240 items from that collection, including the cards highlighted in this blog post, can be viewed on the new platform. Leslie Delassus worked as a graduate… read more
November 8, 2013, Filed Under: Art, Cataloging, Digital Collections, Research + TeachingDigitized access to Frank Reaugh art collection allows viewers to peer beneath the frames A new digitization project provides unprecedented access to the entire Frank Reaugh art collection at the Ransom Center. A one-year, grant-funded project to digitize, catalog, and process the collection is complete, and the collection is accessible via the Center’s new digital collections website. The online resource includes images of the… read more
