May 4, 2020, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingFellowships awarded to 56 scholars The Ransom Center has awarded 56 fellowships for the upcoming year to postdoctoral, dissertation and independent researchers from around the world. The 2020-2021 fellows reflect the global stature of the Center’s collections, representing 15 U.S. states and eight countries, with more than half traveling from abroad.
April 28, 2020, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1Gutenberg’s Blanks Even with a print run of fewer than 200 copies, the Gutenberg Bible was a major undertaking. A complete copy, like the Ransom Center’s, includes 1,277 large pages that have text printed on them. Each full page required that approximately 2,500 individual pieces of metal type be set by hand,… read more
April 27, 2020, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Featured1Flash Fiction Collection established at the Ransom Center More than 250 books and journals were recently donated to establish a Flash Fiction Collection at the Harry Ransom Center. The collection includes anthologies, journals, chapbooks, single-author collections, and books about the writing of flash fiction.
April 7, 2020, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1For the Walls of America: Prints from Associated American Artists In 1934, publicist Reeves Lewenthal called together a group of 23 American artists to discuss his innovative plan for distributing art to the American public.
March 19, 2020, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, Research + TeachingPicturing the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries The Ransom Center’s Spring 2020 Stories to Tell exhibition features some of the earliest printed examples of illustrated English plays.
March 4, 2020, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Conservation, Featured1Conservators painstakingly remove glue that binds Kress Paper Conservation Fellow Emily Farek, working with paper conservators Ken Grant and Jane Boyd, describes the painstaking work of removing modern adhesive from the back of this very large (10′ x 7′) 1648 Dutch map titled, Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula, commonly known as the Blaeu World Map.
