April 25, 2013, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: John Steinbeck’s “ideal woman” Heidi Kim is an assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She visited the Ransom Center in December 2012 on a travel fellowship to research her monograph in progress, Invisible Subjects: Asian America in Postwar American Literature. Some archival trips, like… read more
April 23, 2013, Filed Under: Conservation, Theatre + Performing ArtsConservators repair Bel Geddes poster for 1926 Macy’s parade For Macy’s third annual parade in 1926, Norman Bel Geddes produced seven posters that now reside in the Ransom Center’s archive. Learn about the efforts of Ransom Center conservators to repair and frame one of the posters for the exhibition I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America.… read more
April 23, 2013, Filed Under: ConservationConservator preserves stitched manuscript for Elizabeth Barret Browning poem Paper Conservator Jane Boyd recently completed a treatment of the 1819 manuscript for Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem “The Battle of Marathon,” which was recently digitized. Browning’s method of revising involved sewing pieces of paper containing handwritten notes directly into the manuscript, which had to be removed and preserved during the… read more
April 22, 2013, Filed Under: PhotographyFrom the Outside In: "Migrant Mother," Dorothea Lange, 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 18, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Exhibitions + Events"America’s Best Magazine?: Commentary in the 1960s" In conjunction with tonight’s lecture by author Morris Dickstein, an accompanying display case in the Ransom Center’s lobby features items from the Center’s Commentary magazine archive. Dickstein’s lecture, titled “America’s Best Magazine?: Commentary in the 1960s,” takes place tonight at 7 p.m. in the Prothro Theater. The Commentary magazine archive… read more
April 18, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts"Write for readers like yourself": James Salter’s Novels Note: This post originally appeared on April 18, 2013. James Salter’s All That Is (Knopf), his first new novel since 1979, is a reflective work, a reconsideration of many of the themes he has explored in his earlier fiction. Looking back at Salter’s prior novels through his archive at the… read more
