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February 27, 2017, Filed Under: Authors, Cataloging, Digital Collections, Research + Teaching

Gabriel García Márquez’s life in 100 pictures

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.

September 22, 2016, Filed Under: Digital Collections, Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing Arts

Houdini: Illusionist and collector

Unidentified photographer, [Harry Houdini in chains and ball weights with police], ca. 1900. Gelatin silver print, 14 x 9.5 cm.

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 Arts

Artifact in Harry Houdini scrapbook collection highlights career of mind reader “The White Mahatma”

This page in the scrapbook highlights an engraved notice for S. S. Baldwin’s performances in Peking, China, in 1879, pasted above a review for an appearance at the Academy of Music (city and date unknown).

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 

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