This Saturday, visitors to The University of Texas at Austin campus will notice a lot of activity as students, parents, and alumni flood the forty acres for Explore UT day.
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Archive of photographer Fritz Henle comes to Texas
Image: Fritz Henle (American, b. Germany, 1909–1993), [Nieves Orozco], 1943. Gelatin silver print (contact sheet). Fritz Henle Papers and Photography Collection © The Fritz Henle Estate The Harry Ransom Center has acquired the Fritz Henle archive, containing about 180,000 black-and-white negatives, 10,000 color transparencies, 150 contact sheet books, 11 books… read more
Recent visiting researchers
Throughout the year, the Ransom Center hosts fellows who conduct in-depth research in the Ransom Center collections.
University’s foundational rare book collection acquired a century ago
Image: Curator Aaron Pratt is the early and rare book specialist on staff at the Ransom Center. The volumes in the Wrenn Library have multiple layers of research value, including by author, genre, and the way they were created and collected. Wrenn Library inspired journey that led to today’s Ransom Center… read more
Transnational sisterhood and solidarity in the Julia Alvarez archive
Image: Notecard card from Edgwidge Danticat to JuliaAlvarez; the image is titled Colored Girl. In 1999, five years after Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies was published, the United Nations General Assembly cited the novel as an important cultural text that helped to pass the resolution to designate… read more
Fellows Find: “Archipelago,” Jim Crace’s last novel that never was
Image: Jim Crace’s handwritten note on the “Archipelago” folder in his archive. When I came to the Harry Ransom Center in August 2017 to research in the Jim Crace papers, the materials I was most curious to view were those related to Crace’s unpublished novel Archipelago.