September 8, 2016, Filed Under: Digital Collections, Theatre + Performing ArtsNew digital collection of The Black Crook musical released The Harry Ransom Center is proud to announce that our collection of materials relating to the 1866 megamusical The Black Crook has been fully digitized in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the production. The collection is now publicly available through our online Digital Collections gallery.
December 15, 2015, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Meet the StaffMeet docent Carol Headrick—lifelong teacher, Texas native, and manuscript enthusiast Harry Ransom Center docents are volunteer guides who lead daily tours of the Center’s exhibitions. In the months leading up to exhibition openings, docents work closely with exhibition curators to gain a more complete understanding of exhibition items and content. The docent training process involves readings, discussion, and intense familiarization… read more
November 25, 2015, Filed Under: Art, Conservation, Exhibitions + EventsPreparing Frank Reaugh’s pastels for a new audience The works on view from the Ransom Center’s collection in Frank Reaugh: Landscapes of Texas and the American West have been at The University of Texas at Austin since before the Ransom Center was founded. Reaugh donated them to the University in 1937.
