January 20, 2011, Filed Under: Cataloging, ConservationRansom Center receives $10,000 grant to catalog collection of science materials The Ransom Center has received a $10,000 grant from the Friends of the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics to rehouse and rearrange its holdings of the Herschel family papers and to create an online finding aid. The Herschel family papers, acquired in 1960 with… read more
November 30, 2010, Filed Under: Conservation, FilmConservation work begins on "Gone With The Wind" dresses with study of stitching and construction “Great balls of fire!” Scarlett O’Hara declares in Gone With The Wind as she rips down the green velvet curtains, pole and all, and throws them over her shoulder. “I’m going to Atlanta for that three hundred dollars, and I’ve got to go looking like a queen.” Designed by Walter… read more
October 5, 2010, Filed Under: Conservation, PhotographyBefore and After: A Henry Peach Robinson photograph “Before and After” goes behind the scenes with the the Ransom Center’s conservation department. The most recent installment highlighted work that Head of Photograph Conservation Barbara Brown completed on the Henry Peach Robinson photograph “Bringing Home the May,” taken ca. 1862–1863. Some of Robinson’s work is on view in the… read more
