April 3, 2014, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Cataloging, Digital Collections, Research + TeachingCollection of diplomat’s seventeenth-century newsletters reveal insights into early English history and statecraft I must thank you for the chocolate and snuff you intend to send me, if it be perfumed with anything but orange or jessamin [jasmine] flowers, I had rather have plain, for I find all musk etc. hurts my head. William Bridgeman, Clerk to the English Secretary of State, London,… read more
February 3, 2014, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Cataloging, Digital CollectionsLetter reveals lessons in seventeenth-century home economics in London According to Mary Evelyn, the wife of John Evelyn, a renowned English intellectual, diarist, and horticulturalist in the late seventeenth century, it cost £313 and 1 shilling to set up a proper upper-class household for eight people in London in 1675. In today’s dollars, the dishes, silver, glasses, linens, and… read more
February 7, 2013, Filed Under: Art, Cataloging, Research + TeachingFrank Reaugh project reveals new details of the artist’s process The Ransom Center is currently engaged in a one-year, grant-funded project to digitize, catalog, process and make the Frank Reaugh art collection available online, which will be the first complete collection of the Ransom Center’s new digital asset management system. The project is ongoing and is expected to be completed… read more
