July 20, 2011, Filed Under: ConservationConservation efforts begin on five "Gone With The Wind" costumes Last summer, more than 600 Gone With The Wind enthusiasts from all over the world donated $30,000 to the Ransom Center to preserve five dresses from the film. When we last reported on this project in November 2010, Nicole Villarreal, a Textiles and Apparel Technology graduate student at The University of… read more
June 21, 2011, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, ConservationThe Immortal Hoax of William Henry Ireland “I’m happy that this book is stable enough for scholars to use,” said Inkyung Youm, a graduate intern in the Ransom Center’s Conservation Department, when asked about the most satisfying part of conserving a book of fabricated Shakespearian manuscripts. When Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments under the Hand and Seal… read more
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
