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Living with Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird

October 3, 2021 - Tracy Bonfitto

Nickolas Muray seated in front of Frida Kahlo's self portrait

Imagine living every day alongside an important work of art. What if a painting today known and loved all over the world once served as the backdrop for your daily life, from family celebrations and milestone events to Sunday breakfasts and casual get-togethers with friends?

[Read more…] about Living with Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird

Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1 Tagged With: archive, Art, Frida, Frida Kahlo

The archivist’s archive: Visions of the future past

April 24, 2018 - Stephen Mielke

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.

[Read more…] about The archivist’s archive: Visions of the future past

Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching Tagged With: archive, Archivist's Archive, blueprint

“My mind was blown, and so it began.” New curator of early books and manuscripts is former network and systems engineer

May 23, 2017 - Marissa Kessenich

Aaron T. Pratt has joined the Ransom Center as our new Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts.

[Read more…] about “My mind was blown, and so it began.” New curator of early books and manuscripts is former network and systems engineer

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Meet the Staff Tagged With: Aaron T. Pratt, archive, Books, Curator, early books, Manuscripts, Ohio State, Pforzheimer, Pforzheimer curator, Pforzheimer Library, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, staff, Yale

What’s in the PEN archives?

March 27, 2017 - Harry Ransom Center

PEN. Membership card with information for Malcolm Muggeridge, 1955-1990.

The PEN records occupy 180 linear feet, span 1912 to 2008, and document the history and activities of the English PEN and PEN International, as well as the formation (and sometimes dissolution) of other PEN centers around the globe.

[Read more…] about What’s in the PEN archives?

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Cataloging, Digital Collections, Research + Teaching Tagged With: activism, archive, Arthur Miller, Catharine Amy Dawson Scott, collections, David Carver, digital archive, grant, Hermon Ould, human rights, John Galsworthy, PEN, PEN America, PEN International, politics, Storm Jameson

I shout for a flower

March 21, 2017 - Jullianne Ballou

Gabriel García Márquez autographing a wine barrel, 2005. Photographer unknown.

An undeniable source of pleasure in archives is the appearance of a writer’s doodles in the margins of books and manuscripts. As we’ve digitized García Márquez’s papers for his online archive [Read more…] about I shout for a flower

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Collections Tagged With: archive, autograph, CLIR, CLIR Garcia Marquez, Council on Library and Information Resources, digitized, doodle, drawings, flower, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jullianne Ballou, manuscript, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Plinio Mendoza, Sharing Gabo with the World

Gabriel García Márquez’s life in 100 pictures

February 27, 2017 - Ryan Blake

The author and his wife selecting the artwork for the cover of Crónica de una muerte anunciada; photographer and date unknown.

In August 2016, I joined the Ransom Center as a graduate student assistant from The University of Texas at Austin’s School of Information to digitize the Gabriel García Márquez papers. [Read more…] about Gabriel García Márquez’s life in 100 pictures

Filed Under: Authors, Cataloging, Digital Collections, Research + Teaching Tagged With: archive, author, Bill Clinton, Books, Carlos Slim, CLIR, CLIR Garcia Marquez, Colombia, Council on Library and Information Resources, digital archive, digitization, family photographs, Fidel Castro, Gabo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel García Márquez: A Life, GRA, grant, literature, Manuscripts, photo album, photographs, Ryan Blake, scrapbooks, Shakira, Sharing Gabo with the World

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