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Grant-funded cataloging project creates greater access to performing arts collections

November 30, 2017 - Joan Sibley

With support from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Ransom Center has completed a one-year project to create online access to four of its Performing Arts collections.

[Read more…] about Grant-funded cataloging project creates greater access to performing arts collections

Filed Under: Featured1, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Eric Colleary, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, grant, Hillary Bell, John Gassner, Jule Styne, Wilson Barrett

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

Proposed NEA, NEH funding cuts will directly impact Austin

March 23, 2017 - Stephen Enniss

Stephen Enniss, Director of the Harry Ransom Center, shared his thoughts about the proposed elmination of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities in an opinion editorial in the Austin American-Statesman. Below is the piece that ran on March 10.

[Read more…] about Proposed NEA, NEH funding cuts will directly impact Austin

Filed Under: Meet the Staff Tagged With: culture, Drama, endowment, Exhibitions, grant, humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, NEA, NEH, Norman Bel Geddes, Steve Enniss

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

Austin Community Foundation grant assists forthcoming Mexico Modern exhibition

February 1, 2017 - Jennifer Tisdale

The Harry Ransom Center is pleased to share the news that we received a $17,930 grant from the Austin Community Foundation. [Read more…] about Austin Community Foundation grant assists forthcoming Mexico Modern exhibition

Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: Alfred A. Knopf, Austin Community Foundation, Georgia B. Lucas Foundation Fund, grant, Mexico Modern

Now online: Newly digitized E. O. Goldbeck collection

October 11, 2016 - Mary Alice Harper

Attributed to C. A. Stead (American, 1870-1932), QMC Personnel Working on Army Clothing at a Supply Depot, ca. 1919. Digital positive from nitrate negative, 20 x 50.4 cm. E. O. Goldbeck Papers and Photography Collection, 967:0068:0887

A new digitization project provides access to 996 photographs from the E. O. (Eugene Omar) Goldbeck papers and photography collection, the largest photography collection in the Harry Ransom Center’s Texana holdings.

[Read more…] about Now online: Newly digitized E. O. Goldbeck collection

Filed Under: Cataloging, Digital Collections, Photography Tagged With: Brooks Field, C. A. Stead, C. W. Archer, Camp Travis, digitization, digitized collection, E. O. Goldbeck, Eugene Omar Goldbeck, gelatin silver print, grant, Kelly Field, military, nitrate negative, photographer, Photography, San Antonio, Texana, Texas, twentieth century, W. W. Mitchell, World War One, WWI

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