May 4, 2018, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsInterview with Ian McEwan The Harry Ransom Center spoke with Ian McEwan in 2014 about archives, contemporary British fiction, science and the humanities, and where to find paradise on earth. McEwan’s archive is accessible at the Ransom Center.
April 24, 2018, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingThe archivist’s archive: Visions of the future past Building plans from the 1960s show concepts for office and classroom arrangements for housing the Rare Books Collection, the foundation of the Harry Ransom Center.
April 24, 2018, Filed Under: Conservation, Theatre + Performing ArtsLife on the circuit seen through poster repairs Make-do repairs helped preserve the history of vaudeville Collection items that have been selected for exhibition frequently come to the paper lab for repair and stabilization before they are prepared for exhibition. Recently, conservators Kimberley Kwan (above) and Jane Boyd repaired several late nineteenth-century lithographic posters for inclusion in the… read more
