October 22, 2019, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsCelebrating 100 years of Doris Lessing Nobel Prize–winning author Doris Lessing was born one hundred years ago, on October 22, 1919.
October 15, 2019, Filed Under: ConservationPreserving one of the Center’s most celebrated objects In partnership with imaging specialists and conservation scientists across the country, in summer 2019, the Harry Ransom Center undertook a project to ensure the longterm preservation of The Niépce Heliograph, the earliest known surviving photograph made with the aid of the camera obscura.
September 26, 2019, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsWhy are some books collected and others merely read? During the latter half of the nineteenth century, cheap and shoddy reprints of Jane Austen’s novels brought her work to the general public.
