February 27, 2017, Filed Under: Authors, Cataloging, Digital Collections, Research + TeachingGabriel García Márquez’s life in 100 pictures 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.
September 22, 2016, Filed Under: Digital Collections, Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsHoudini: Illusionist and collector This Halloween marks the ninetieth anniversary of the death of the great illusionist Harry Houdini. Born Ehrich Weisz in Budapest in 1874, he got his start as a trapeze artist before turning his attention to magic. He took the name Houdini after the popular French magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin. When Houdini… read more
November 8, 2013, Filed Under: Digital Collections, Theatre + Performing ArtsArtifact in Harry Houdini scrapbook collection highlights career of mind reader “The White Mahatma” The Ransom Center recently launched a new platform of digital collections on its website, which includes the Harry Houdini scrapbook collection. More than 50 items from that collection, including the scrapbook highlighted in this blog post, can be viewed on the new platform. American magician S. S. Baldwin (1848–1924),… read more
