November 8, 2013, Filed Under: Art, Cataloging, Digital Collections, Research + TeachingDigitized access to Frank Reaugh art collection allows viewers to peer beneath the frames A new digitization project provides unprecedented access to the entire Frank Reaugh art collection at the Ransom Center. A one-year, grant-funded project to digitize, catalog, and process the collection is complete, and the collection is accessible via the Center’s new digital collections website. The online resource includes images of the… read more
April 5, 2011, Filed Under: Digital CollectionsFinal report published as part of Mellon-funded project on computer forensics and born-digital cultural heritage Computer storage media have begun to arrive in archival collections with increasing frequency over the last 20 years. Approximately 50 of the Ransom Center’s holdings contain floppy disks, CDs, or personal computers. Faced with the daunting task of capturing files from these media and making them available to researchers, archivists… read more
January 31, 2011, Filed Under: Digital Collections, PhotographyDigital collection highlights photos taken in Corpus Christi during Great Depression The Ransom Center has made available online the digital collection “The Itinerant Photographer: Photographs of Corpus Christi Businesses in the 1930s.” The collection highlights photographs taken of businesses in Corpus Christi during the Great Depression. The project to make these materials accessible online was funded by a TexTreasures grant from… read more
