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The Conservation of Daguerreotypes: Objects in Mirror are More Complex than They Appear

June 1, 2020 - Harry Ransom Center

One of many strengths in the Ransom Center’s collections is early photography. In addition to the earliest surviving photograph produced in a camera, The Niépce Heliograph, the Center holds many beautiful examples of daguerreotypes.

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Filed Under: Conservation, Featured1, Photography Tagged With: Albert Davis collection, archive, Conservation, Daguerreotype, Photography

Archive of photographer Fritz Henle comes to Texas

February 27, 2018 - Jennifer Tisdale

Nieves Orozco

Image: Fritz Henle (American, b. Germany, 1909–1993), [Nieves Orozco], 1943. Gelatin silver print (contact sheet). Fritz Henle Papers and Photography Collection © The Fritz Henle Estate

The Harry Ransom Center has acquired the Fritz Henle archive, containing about 180,000 black-and-white negatives, 10,000 color transparencies, 150 contact sheet books, 11 books of magazine clippings and tear sheets and thousands of work prints spanning the photographer’s six-decade career. The materials were donated by the Henle Archive Trust. [Read more…] about Archive of photographer Fritz Henle comes to Texas

Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: acquisition, Acquisitions, Fritz Henle, Photography, release, University of Texas Press

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.

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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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