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Ransom Center experience leads to new challenge

What Monte Monreal will remember most about his time at the Harry Ransom Center isn’t so much the complexities of the Gutenberg Bible or Anne Sexton’s drafts for “Flee on Your Donkey,” although those items are two of his favorites in the collection. Instead, it’s the people. “Broadly, any time… read more 

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Making the Banned Accessible: Digitizing the Hall-Troubridge Archive 

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),… read more 

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.

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Q & A: Registrar 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… read more