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Making the Banned Accessible: Digitizing the Hall-Troubridge Archive 

April 28, 2022 - Harry Ransom Center

Technician digitizing collection materials

by VEGA SHAH

The Ransom Center is home to the collection and papers of British author Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943) and her partner, Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge (1887-1963), a sculptor and translator. The couple, being openly lesbian partners, are remembered as LGBTQ pioneers, with Hall’s novel, The Well of Loneliness (1928), making lesbianism more visible in English society, despite the banning of the novel in England.

The Hall-Troubridge papers have been digitized and are accessible online in a new digital collection. Explore more than 40,000 images of Hall and Troubridge’s papers, letters, and photos, that provide insight into their personal correspondence, as well as topics such as gender, politics, and spirituality.

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Filed Under: Authors, Digital Collections, Featured1, Meet the Staff, Research + Teaching

ABOUT VEGA SHAH

Vega Shah is an undergraduate intern at the Harry Ransom Center and a senior at the University of Texas at Austin pursuing a B.A in Anthropology, a minor in Art History, and certificates in Liberal Arts Honors and Museum Studies. Her research interests include Islamic and contemporary art and equity in museum education and curation.

Q & A: Registrar Ester Harrison

October 12, 2021 - RANDI RAGSDALE

Ester Harrison

When you see a favorite work of art on display in a traveling exhibition, do you ever wonder about its journey to that point? Under ideal conditions, it is a lengthy process involving museum staff and vendors from around the world. However, during a global pandemic, the role of a well-seasoned registrar proves to be more critical than ever when it comes to putting one of Frida Kahlo’s most iconic paintings on view.

In this Q & A, Harry Ransom Center Registrar Ester Harrison gives us a behind-the-scenes look at her integral role in the care and stewardship of Kahlo’s 1940 Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird.

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Filed Under: Art, Featured1, Meet the Staff

A word from our new Head of Membership, Monte Monreal

August 23, 2021 - Monte Monreal

Monte Monreal


Dear Friend,

Hello, my name is Monte Monreal, and I’m thrilled to introduce myself as the new Head of Membership at the Harry Ransom Center. [Read more…] about A word from our new Head of Membership, Monte Monreal

Filed Under: Featured1, Meet the Staff Tagged With: members, Membership

Many Years Later: Three Readings of One Hundred Years of Solitude

June 5, 2020 - Monte Monreal

With equal parts clarity and gilded nostalgia, I recall the first time I read the opening line of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” Often cited on lists of literature’s great first lines, the unusual configuration of words came tearing off the page. Who begins a story with, “Many years later”? [Read more…] about Many Years Later: Three Readings of One Hundred Years of Solitude

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Meet the Staff Tagged With: literature

Meet the Staff: Pforzheimer project digitization specialist Cassandra Chen

January 31, 2019 - Jared Neuharth

Cassandra Chen was recently appointed the Pforzheimer project digitization specialist. Four years ago, she came to the University of Texas at Austin via Taiwan. [Read more…] about Meet the Staff: Pforzheimer project digitization specialist Cassandra Chen

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Meet the Staff Tagged With: digitization, Meet the Staff, Pforzheimer

A day in my life as a preservation and conservation intern

November 14, 2018 - Alicia Bush

As an English student at Florida A&M University, I was attracted to this internship because it granted me an opportunity to really explore an archival library. [Read more…] about A day in my life as a preservation and conservation intern

Filed Under: Conservation, Meet the Staff Tagged With: intern

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