December 20, 2019, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Conservation, Featured1, Research + TeachingThe conservation behind the Blaeu World Map In an earlier blog post, we shared the science behind the Blaeu World Map. This week, Kress Paper Conservation Fellow Emily Farek dives into the treatment taking place to help extend the life of this unique 371-year-old wall map created by Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu in 1648.
December 11, 2019, Filed Under: Conservation, Featured1, Research + TeachingThe science behind the Blaeu World Map Explore the Harry Ransom Center, search digital collections, or plan your visit. A one-of-a-kind 17th-century map housed at the Ransom Center for decades, currently too fragile to display, is now the subject of an intensive research and conservation project that will utilize scientific analysis to reveal the hidden story behind… read more
March 5, 2019, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingThe word on the streets During the modernist era, writers experimented with the language of the street in their works. Brooks Hefner’s The Word on the Streets explores how multiple writers of different genres used street slang to emphasize classism through dialect. At the Ransom Center, Hefner consulted the archives of influential detective fiction writers… read more
