The closing of an exhibition is always bittersweet. The closing of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is particularly so for me. During the run of the exhibition we saw the galleries come alive with
Exhibitions
July 4, 1862: A Golden Afternoon with Alice and her Sisters
![Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), [Edith, Lorina, and Alice Liddell], 1858. Albumen print (cabinet card), 4 x 5.5 inches. Gernsheim Collection, Harry Ransom Center.](https://sites.utexas.edu/ransomcentermagazine/files/2015/06/P_DOD_GEN_002_300dpiEDIT-768x506.jpg)
Charles Dodgson began to tell the story of a little girl named Alice on an outing with Alice, Edith, and Lorina Liddell on July 4, 1862. He later recalled that “golden afternoon” in a poem that prefaces many editions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
From Austin to Venice Biennale: 5,614 miles of trucks, planes, and a ferry
The Harry Ransom Center supports an active program of loans from its collections, balancing the task of preparing and processing materials for loan with its own exhibition program. The loans, which share the Center’s collections with a wider audience, are considered on the basis of their merit and contribution to… read more