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Texas

Now online: Newly digitized E. O. Goldbeck collection

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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

Meet docent Carol Headrick—lifelong teacher, Texas native, and manuscript enthusiast

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Harry Ransom Center docents are volunteer guides who lead daily tours of the Center’s exhibitions. In the months leading up to exhibition openings, docents work closely with exhibition curators to gain a more complete understanding of exhibition items and content. The docent training process involves readings, discussion, and intense familiarization with the exhibition. [Read more…] about Meet docent Carol Headrick—lifelong teacher, Texas native, and manuscript enthusiast

“Sis and Jock’s Hot as Hell West Texas Tour!”: Docent takes a 1,318 mile road trip in Frank Reaugh’s footsteps

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Harry Ransom Center docents are volunteer guides that lead free daily tours of the Center’s exhibitions. In the months leading up to exhibition openings, docents work closely with curators to gain a more complete understanding of exhibition items and content. The docent training process involves readings, discussion, and intense familiarization with the exhibition.  [Read more…] about “Sis and Jock’s Hot as Hell West Texas Tour!”: Docent takes a 1,318 mile road trip in Frank Reaugh’s footsteps

Texas, el Estado que le robó el corazón al gigante de las letras Jorge Luis Borges

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En 2014 el Harry Ransom Center adquirió el archivo del Premio Nobel Gabriel García Márquez. Sin duda a García Márquez le habría encantado saber que su archivo residiría junto a una importante colección de documentos de Jorge Luis Borges. Borges, escritor argentino [Read more…] about Texas, el Estado que le robó el corazón al gigante de las letras Jorge Luis Borges

Texas, the state that stole the heart of literary giant Jorge Luis Borges

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In 2014 the Harry Ransom Center acquired the archive of Nobel Prize–winning author Gabriel García Márquez. García Márquez would surely enjoy knowing that his archive resides alongside an important collection of papers by Jorge Louis Borges. [Read more…] about Texas, the state that stole the heart of literary giant Jorge Luis Borges