November 13, 2020, Filed Under: ConservationHands-on research designed to preserve the Center’s collections This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Our work in the Harry Ransom Center’s Preservation and Conservation Division focuses on caring for the Center’s vast and varied collections. Much like the interdisciplinary nature of today’s engineering and medical professions, science, technology, and craft underpin the work… read more
April 21, 2016, Filed Under: ConservationSay it with flowers Princess Marthe Bibesco was the quintessential Napoleonic cosmopolite—worldly, literary, political, and modern