March 6, 2017, Filed Under: Film, Theatre + Performing ArtsPapers of actors Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson acquired The Ransom Center has acquired the papers of actors, and husband and wife, Eli Wallach (1915–2014) and Anne Jackson (1925–2016).
November 3, 2016, Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsFellows Find: Seeing “the Indian” in vaudeville The bottom half of this postcard—one of many images in the Harry Ransom Center’s Tony Pastor collection—reveals a lot about the early days of vaudeville.
November 1, 2016, Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsFellows find: Letters of St. John Ervine, playwright for a tumultuous Ireland I visited the Harry Ransom Center for two weeks to access the collection of St. John Ervine (1883–1971), an enigmatic, occasionally-forgotten figure who nonetheless casts a spell over a select band of Irish scholars and historians. His personal story fuses both the culture and politics of his Ireland.
