August 26, 2010, Filed Under: Conservation‘Every now and then you have to think outside the box’ Preservation Housings Manager Apryl Voskamp spends a lot of her time at the Ransom Center making boxes. Yet, she says, “every now and then you have to think outside the box.” That’s because the preservation lab is responsible for housing every type of item in the Ransom Center’s collections: from… read more
August 5, 2010, Filed Under: PhotographyWeb exhibition highlights world’s first photo Joseph Nicéphore Niépce captured the world’s first photograph in 1826 or 1827, but it took more than 125 years for it to be recognized as such. The photograph was rediscovered by photo historian Helmut Gernsheim, who found it lying forgotten in a trunk. “I held the foundation stone of photography… read more
August 3, 2010, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsSee full digitized version of the Gutenberg Bible Among the Ransom Center’s greatest treasures is the Gutenberg Bible, one of only five complete copies in the United States and only 21 complete copies in the world. The Ransom Center digitized the entire copy of its Gutenberg Bible in 2002, resulting in 1,300 images that reveal the text, large… read more
