November 3, 2011, Filed Under: PhotographyRansom Center acquires collection of contemporary tintypes The Ransom Center recently acquired ten tintype images from photographer Robb Kendrick. Tintype printing is a historical photo technique that was used primarily during the nineteenth century. The tintypes acquired are each handmade and one-of-a-kind. The acquired tintypes vary in subject matter from portraits to landscapes to cacti. Several of… read more
November 1, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsIn the Galleries: An illustrated envelope from Frank Shay’s Bookshop Frank Shay’s shop at 4 Christopher Street in Greenwich Village was a bookstore, a community gathering place, a circulating library, and a tiny publishing house all at once. Shay published a newspaper, a magazine, and more than a dozen books from the shop during his time there: small, handcrafted editions… read more
October 31, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsCreepy, macabre, and bloody: Halloween assignment illustrates breadth of Ransom Center’s collections Bethany Johnsen is an undergraduate intern at the Ransom Center who has been working with Cline Curator of Literature Molly Schwartzburg to gather materials for students for a visit on Halloween. For the students in University of Texas at Austin English Professor Janine Barchas’s freshman honors seminar, a Ransom Center… read more
October 27, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsIn the Galleries: Propaganda poster protesting Nazi book burnings On May 10, 1933, a series of coordinated book burnings took place across Germany. In the academic sphere, the German Students Association’s staged burnings were an attempt to eliminate “un-German” works from university libraries. Addressing the students gathered in Berlin, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels encouraged them to “clean up the… read more
October 25, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsIn the Galleries: "The Harp Weaver" by Edna St. Vincent Millay In 1923, Edna St. Vincent Millay was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver (1921). That prize-winning book was an expanded commercial edition of the poems in this volume. The longer book was published by Harper and Brothers and contained these poems, another poem published… read more
October 24, 2011, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFleur’s Fleurs: "Flower Game" reveals friends and their favorite flowers The personal archive of publisher, author, and artist Fleur Cowles (1908–2009) has been donated to the Ransom Center. The materials will be accessible once processed and cataloged, but an initial assessment confirms that the archive is as dynamic as Cowles was herself. In 1983, Cowles celebrated the publication of The… read more
