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
April 24, 2018, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingTeaching in the archives “Tell me why you think this is in the room,” I ask, pointing to a pair of delicately beaded moccasins on the lower shelf of the display case.
