Rosalind Iden’s gown and the character it plays
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Annual report reveals growth
The Ransom Center is pleased to share its annual report covering the 2014–2015 academic year. Ransom Center Director Stephen Enniss notes that “The Ransom Center reached new records in numerous categories, including the number of visitors to our exhibitions, the numbers of students we served, and the number of onsite researchers we… read more
Meet the Staff: Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa
Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa is Associate Director and Head of Preservation and Conservation at the Harry Ransom Center. She worked in the Ransom Center’s conservation lab early in her career, before taking a job as an archivist at
When $4, $40, and $400 all count the same
Like many undergraduate students, my first visit to the Harry Ransom Center was as an exhibition visitor. A friend and I, both fresh-faced freshmen, stumbled upon
Say it with flowers
Princess Marthe Bibesco was the quintessential Napoleonic cosmopolite—worldly, literary, political, and modern
Discovery of books from the library of Oscar Wilde
This post was written in collaboration with author and independent scholar Thomas Wright. Oscar Wilde was many things: dramatist, dandy, essayist, lecturer, novelist, poet—and he was very much a bibliophile.