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, creating a substantial corpus of over 7,000 digital recordings accessible for the first time to researchers and the public in the Ransom Center’s reading and viewing room. [Read more…] about Unlocked voices of the arts and humanities
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. [Read more…] about Preserving one of the Center’s most celebrated objects
NEH helps to break the sound barrier
Rare sound recordings to be preserved and made accessible with grant
For the first time, sound recordings documenting the work and lives of notable cultural figures such as Julia Alvarez, Truman Capote, William Faulkner, Norman Bel Geddes, Norman Mailer, Anne Sexton, and Gloria Swanson will be publicly available for research. [Read more…] about NEH helps to break the sound barrier
