May 13, 2024, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Conservation, PhotographyConservation: The Clarkson Stanfield Album by ANDREA KNOWLTON Photographic albums are complex book structures with unique weaknesses and vulnerabilities. To make the Clarkson Stanfield Album, the photographs were adhered to individual leaves of paper, which were then hinged and nested together into sections that could be sewn together into a traditional book structure. Even with… read more
May 13, 2024, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellowships Awarded to 54 Scholars The Ransom Center has awarded 54 fellowships for the upcoming year to postdoctoral, dissertation and independent researchers studying a wide array of topics, from a women’s history of modernism told through clothing to the imprisoned writer in the international imagination and more. Since 1990, the Ransom Center Fellowship Program has… read more
May 9, 2024, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Conservation, PhotographyElegance and Ambition: Hill & Adamson’s Book of 100 Calotypes by JESSICA S. MCDONALD A superior volume of early photographs by the celebrated Scottish partnership of Hill & Adamson (active 1843–1847) is the subject of an unprecedented exhibition this spring. Formally titled 100 Calotypes by D. O. Hill, R.S.A., and R. Adamson, the volume is better known as the Clarkson… read more
