September 20, 2012, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsIn the Galleries: Norman Bel Geddes’s Costume Designs for "The Miracle" Perhaps best known as the innovative designer of the Futurama exhibition in the General Motors pavilion at the 1939–1940 New York World’s Fair, Norman Bel Geddes was also a noted theater designer, fabricating costumes, sets, lighting, and theaters. After beginning his career in Los Angeles, Bel Geddes moved to New… read more
September 18, 2012, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsDisplay highlights basketball photos in "Basketball: Power in Play" Basketball, which began as a game invented to occupy young, energetic boys within the confines of a gymnasium on rainy days, has come to be one of the most popular sports in American culture. Basketball: Power in Play, a display of sports photographs from the Harry Ransom Center’s New York… read more
September 13, 2012, Filed Under: Cataloging, Theatre + Performing ArtsIllustrating the Sueltas The Texas collection of comedias sueltas at the Ransom Center contains over 14,000 titles that provide valuable insight into Spanish literature from the second half of the seventeenth century through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Thanks to a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources, Cataloging Hidden… read more
