October 13, 2016, Filed Under: Digital CollectionsA young Lewis Carroll, “musing on milk” and “reasoning on rubbish” Through its digital collections portal, the Harry Ransom Center has made available a remarkable example of juvenilia from its Charles Lutwidge Dodgson collection.
October 11, 2016, Filed Under: Cataloging, Digital Collections, PhotographyNow online: Newly digitized E. O. Goldbeck collection A new digitization project provides access to 996 photographs from the E. O. (Eugene Omar) Goldbeck papers and photography collection, the largest photography collection in the Harry Ransom Center’s Texana holdings.
September 22, 2016, Filed Under: Digital Collections, Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsHoudini: Illusionist and collector This Halloween marks the ninetieth anniversary of the death of the great illusionist Harry Houdini. Born Ehrich Weisz in Budapest in 1874, he got his start as a trapeze artist before turning his attention to magic. He took the name Houdini after the popular French magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin. When Houdini… read more
