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About Ellen Cunningham-Krupp

Cunningham-Kruppa is the Ransom Center’s Associate Director for Preservation and Conservation. She has been a practitioner, educator, and consultant in the field of cultural record preservation for over 30 years. In 2016 Ellen was awarded the American Library Association’s Paul Banks and Carolyn Harris Award in Preservation. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an MLIS from UT Austin, and is an affiliated assistant professor with the University of Delaware/Winterthur Program in Art Conservation. She received an Endorsement of Specialization in Administration of Preservation Programs from Columbia University’s School of Library Service. In 2019 The Legacy Press published her book Mooring a Field: Paul N. Banks and the Education of Library and Archives Conservators.

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Collaborating To Conserve

New initiative is designed to protect cultural collections across the The University of Texas at Austin In the 140 years since The University of Texas at Austin was founded, valuable collections of books, manuscripts, photographs, art, and much more have come to the university through generous gifts and purchased acquisitions.… read more 

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Unlocked voices of the arts and humanities

With generous funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Harry Ransom Center recently completed a two-year project to preserve through digitization more than 3,100 unique sound recordings covering a broad range of political, social, literary, and artistic topics. These recordings join another 4,000 previously digitized audio files,… read more 

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Preserving one of the Center’s most celebrated objects

In partnership with imaging specialists and conservation scientists across the country, in summer 2019, the Harry Ransom Center undertook a project to ensure the longterm preservation of The Niépce Heliograph, the earliest known surviving photograph made with the aid of the camera obscura.