The papers of Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee are now open for research at the Harry Ransom Center.
Books + Manuscripts
“Hasty and exuberant” decoration in the Ransom Center’s Gutenberg Bible
The Ransom Center’s two-volume Gutenberg Bible is on permanent display. Every few months the Center’s staff changes the opening, allowing visitors to see different pages and to protect the volumes from overexposure to light.
Ransom Center conservator treats preliminary layouts for Ed Ruscha’s Hard Light
The Edward Ruscha Papers and Art Collection at the Harry Ransom Center includes preliminary layout sheets for Hard Light, a collaborative artist’s book published by Ruscha and Lawrence Weiner in 1978.