January 17, 2013, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsStella Adler scholar explores acting master’s interpretation of great American playwrights “Mommy, is that God?” a little girl once whispered to her mother as Stella Adler swept into a party in New York City. The girl’s mistake was understandable: Adler was known as a presence of divine proportions, a tall, glamorous woman whose grand gestures and dramatic one-liners captivated audiences both… read more
January 16, 2013, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFirst edition of “The Vampyre” reveals clues about history of book and its popularity Molly Miller is a graduate student in the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin. She is studying to become a teen services librarian, but has many other interests, including nineteenth-century British literature, vampires, rare books, and anything to do with the Victorian Era. As part… read more
January 11, 2013, Filed Under: Cataloging, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsSueltas feature cartoons by Spanish caricaturist Manuel Tovar Everybody loves cartoons. They proliferate in modern newspapers and on the Internet. From Peanuts to Doonesbury, cartoons provide commentary and amusement for the reader. The sueltas collection at the Harry Ransom Center, currently being cataloged under a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources, also features its own… read more
January 8, 2013, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Women behind the camera in and beyond the studio Margaret Denny received a Marlene Nathan Meyerson Photography Fellowship to conduct research in the Ransom Center’s Gernsheim collection. Below she shares some of her findings at the Ransom Center. During the past decade, I have conducted primary research on Victorian women in photography, an investigation that culminated in my dissertation From… read more
January 6, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsIn the Galleries: Norman Bel Geddes’s 1931 film of "Hamlet" production https://youtu.be/o_ud44hNLUE By the time Norman Bel Geddes began work on a contentious adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet in 1931, he was considered an established theatrical designer and a pioneer of the New Stagecraft movement in America. Collaborating with literary advisor Clayton Hamilton, Bel Geddes abridged the play in order to… read more
January 4, 2013, Filed Under: ConservationRansom Center seeks input on draft report about acquisition of born-digital materials In 2011, Ransom Center Digital Archivist Gabriela Redwine, with Assistant Director Megan Barnard, invited an international team of colleagues to engage in a series of conversations about how born-digital materials are acquired and transferred to archival repositories. Ten archivists and curators from the Beinecke Library at Yale University; the Bodleian… read more
