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Stop the presses: Benjamin C. Bradlee papers open for research

February 14, 2017 - Ancelyn Krivak

Ben Bradlee in his office at The Washington Post with Katharine Graham, Patrick Tyler, and Boisfeuillet Jones Jr., 1983.

The papers of Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee are now open for research at the Harry Ransom Center.

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Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: A Good life, acquisition, Acquisitions, Ben Bradlee, Ben Bradlee Papers, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, editor, Finding Aid, Harvard Grant Study, How to Read a Newspaper, John F. Kennedy, journalism, Katharine Graham, news, newspaper, newsroom, Newsweek, Pentagon Papers, reporter, The Washington Post, Washington, Watergate

Our year with J. Frank Dobie

September 25, 2015 - Joan Sibley

C. H. Dykeman, Photograph of J. Frank Dobie at his desk, 1959. Note the wooden roadrunner on his desk and the open file cabinet drawer showing folders of papers.

Thanks to support from the TexTreasures grant program of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the papers of Texas writer, folklorist, and educator J. Frank Dobie (1888–1964) are now [Read more…] about Our year with J. Frank Dobie

Filed Under: Authors, Cataloging Tagged With: archivist, Cataloging, Daniela Lozano, Dobie, Finding Aid, folklore, grant, Institute of Museum and Library Services, J. Frank Dobie, Joan Sibley, Life and Literature of the Southwest, southwest, Texas literature, Texas State Library and Archives Commission, TexTreasures

Paul Gottschalk: the German bookseller who anticipated a contentious Nazi-era elections legacy

September 3, 2015 - Robert Taylor

Paul Gottschalk. Unknown date and photographer.

The Ransom Center’s recently-processed archival collection titled “1932 German Elections Ephemera Collection” was assembled in the 1930s by the German-American book seller Paul Gottschalk. The sequence of events that the collection documents—that is, the rise of Adolf Hitler to [Read more…] about Paul Gottschalk: the German bookseller who anticipated a contentious Nazi-era elections legacy

Filed Under: Cataloging Tagged With: 1930s, 1932, antiquarian, Berlin, bookseller, collector, elections, ephemera, Finding Aid, German, Germany, Gottschalk, history, Hitler, Jews, Nazi, war, WWI

Preserving and Enhancing Access to Physicist Owen W. Richardson’s Papers

June 17, 2015 - Marlene Renz

O. W. Richardson. What the Nobel Prize has meant for me, October 8, 1933.

With the generous support of a grant from the History Programs, American Institute of Physics, the Ransom Center has created a new online finding aid for the papers of English physicist Owen W. Richardson (1879–1959). The papers were originally processed during the 1960s and described on more than 8,000 catalog cards. Enhanced collection housing was also part of the project, improving long-term preservation of the materials.

Recognized for his pioneering work on thermionics, Sir Owen Richardson was awarded the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for [Read more…] about Preserving and Enhancing Access to Physicist Owen W. Richardson’s Papers

Filed Under: Conservation, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Albert Einstein, American Institute of Physics, Charles Darwin, Finding Aid, grant, Herschel Family, history of science, Lewis Carroll, Nobel Prize, O.W. Richardson, Owen Richardson, Photoelectricity, physics, preservation, Quantum Theory, Radiation, Richardson’s Law, Thermionics

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