Meet the Staff is a Q&A series on Cultural Compass that highlights the work, experience, and lives of people at the Harry Ransom Center. Joan Sibley has filled a variety of roles during her 25 years at the Ransom Center. Now, as Senior Archivist, she is responsible for the completion… read more
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Paul Gottschalk: the German bookseller who anticipated a contentious Nazi-era elections legacy
The Ransom Center’s recently-processed archival collection titled “1932 German Elections Ephemera Collection” was assembled in the 1930s by the German-American book seller Paul Gottschalk. The sequence of events that the collection documents—that is, the rise of Adolf Hitler to
Letter in Sunwise Turn collection sheds light on forgotten artist/daredevil
![Final page of letter of June 10, 1913, in which Howard Kretz mentions his fear that the resort camp’s cows will be “insulted [by his mother’s new fence] and tear down the fence because they are not allowed to tread the tennis courts to pieces.” He closes with his signature and a sketch of two presumably insulted cows. The letters in this 1913–1916 group are all signed “Howard Col Kr” or “Howard C K,” so his practice of identifying himself as Howard Kretz Coluzzi was evidently still in the future.](https://sites.utexas.edu/ransomcentermagazine/files/2015/02/Sunwise_Turn_17_5_002_edited-1-768x932.jpg)
Among the papers of Mary Mowbray Clarke included in the Sunwise Turn archive is Ms. Mowbray Clarke’s personal correspondence. The major portion of these letters span the years 1905–1917, from about the time she married John Mowbray Clarke up to the opening of the Sunwise Turn bookshop in partnership with… read more