January 29, 2018, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, Theatre + Performing ArtsExhibition shares the story of vaudeville Above: Unidentified photographer, [Adele and Fred Astaire], ca. 1914. Gelatin silver print, 21.8 x 19.8 cm. Dance Collection, Harry Ransom Center. The Harry Ransom Center draws on its extensive performing arts holdings to tell the story of one of American theatre’s most popular forms of entertainment in the exhibition Vaudeville!
January 23, 2018, Filed Under: Conservation, PhotographyPreserving Arnold Newman’s photography slides The Ransom Center’s Arnold Newman papers and photography collection, acquired in 2006, includes more than 25,000 prints, original sitting books, early sketchbooks, photographic albums, and video recordings of interviews and lectures. Newman, who lived from 1918 to 2006, was a prolific artist known for his “environmental portraiture,” a style which… read more
January 18, 2018, Filed Under: Film, Research + TeachingDecades of movie poster history go online Explore the Harry Ransom Center, search digital collections, or plan your visit. It is difficult to envision the sheer volume of the Movie Poster Collection at the Harry Ransom Center. The collection encompasses upwards of 10,000 posters and spans decades: from when the film industry was just beginning to compete… read more
January 16, 2018, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, FilmIn the galleries: Dressing for success in Mad Men’s Season 6 The Ransom Center’s Stories to Tell exhibition features a rotating selection from the Ransom Center’s holdings.
January 11, 2018, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingViewing the twentieth century via the PEN archive Recently I was lucky enough to spend four months digging through the PEN (Poets Essayists and Novelists Club) archive at the Harry Ransom Center.
January 9, 2018, Filed Under: Featured1, Theatre + Performing ArtsPlaywright Arthur Miller’s archive comes to the Harry Ransom Center The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the archive of American playwright Arthur Miller (1915–2005). Obtained from the Arthur Miller Trust, the archive spans Miller’s career.
