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The Harry Ransom Center, known as the Humanities Research Center until 1983, is an archive, library, and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in the collection of literary and cultural artifacts from the Americas and Europe for the purpose of advancing the study of the arts and humanities.
Ransom served on the National Commission for Libraries appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. [5] The Harry Ransom Center, on the University of Texas at Austin campus, Austin, Texas, United States. Ransom was the only son of Harry Huntt and Marion Goodwin (Cunningham) Ransom. He was married in Galveston on August 11, 1951, to Hazel Louise ...
Thomas Staley, who led the University of Texas Harry Ransom Center cultural archive for 25 years and oversaw its growth into one of the world's leading literary and humanities research ...
Harry Ransom Center, Austin Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird ( Autorretrato con Collar de Espinas ) is a 1940 self-portrait by Mexican painter Frida Kahlo which also includes a black cat, a monkey, and two dragonflies.
Austin hosts several sizable history and literary museums — LBJ Presidential Library, Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, Harry Ransom Center, Briscoe Center for American History, Capitol ...
The largest collection of Maxwell Anderson's papers – over sixty boxes – is housed at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin and includes published and unpublished manuscript materials for plays, poems, and essays, as well as over 2,000 letters, diaries, financial papers, nearly 1,500 family photographs, and personal ...
The Harry Ransom Center mounted The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door: A Portal to Bohemia, 1920–1925 exhibition from September 6, 2011, until January 22, 2012. [10] The exhibition marked the first and thus far only public show to include the bookshop door, with curation headed by Molly Schwartzburg. [7]
By 1972, a portion of the museum's collection was housed at the Harry Ransom Humanities Center, including the collection of paintings donated by James Michener and his wife, Mari Yoriko Sabusawa, and the Battle Collection of Plaster Casts, [6] reproductions of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture. The print study room and temporary exhibition ...