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Considered one of the world's finest cultural archives, the Harry Ransom Center houses 30 million literary manuscripts, 1 million rare books, 5 million photographs, and over 100,000 visual artworks. Highlights include the Gutenberg Bible and the world's first photograph. The Center is used extensively for research and presents numerous exhibitions and events each year showcasing its collections.

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    Harry Ransom Center

    300 West 21st Street
    Austin, 78712

    Phone: (512)471-8944   |   Fax: (512)471-9646   |   Official Website

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    02/17/12	Culinary Preview at Ransom Center's The King James Bible: Its History and Influence Culinary Preview at Ransom Center's The King James Bible: Its History and Influence Presented by Harry Ransom Center February 17, 2012 Enjoy a culinary preview of the exhibition The King James Bible: Its History and Influence with the Ransom Center and the Central Market (CM) Cooking School. Join us for a seventeenth-century-inspired-cooking class on Friday, February 17, at 6:30 p.m. at the Central Market on North Lamar. Enjoy dinner, wine, and cooking demonstrations by Central Market Cooking School Chef Louis Ortiz as he recreates and interprets dishes from the era of Shakespeare and King James. The menu...
    02/22/12	Poetry on the Plaza: Translation Harry Ransom Center Poetry on the Plaza: Translation Presented by Harry Ransom Center at Harry Ransom Center February 22, 2012 The Harry Ransom Center and Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies (TILTS) present the Poetry on the Plaza event Translation on Wednesday, February 22, at noon. Visiting poets and scholars read their favorite poems in translation as TILTS kicks off its spring symposium, Poets & Scholars: Creative, Cultural and Critical Crossings. Readers include poets Cyrus Cassells, Marilyn Hacker, Fady Joudah, Eileen Myles, Urayoán Noel, and Valerie Martinez as...
    02/28/12- 07/29/12	“The King James Bible: Its History and Influence” Harry Ransom Center “The King James Bible: Its History and Influence” Presented by Harry Ransom Center at Harry Ransom Center February 28-July 29, 2012 “Kings & Creators” Opening Reception on March 2 Four hundred years after its first printing, the King James translation of the Bible remains a vital work whose language permeates contemporary music, literature, and everyday speech. The exhibition tells the little-known story of one of the most widely read and printed books in the history of the English language. Materials from the Ransom Center and Folger Shakespeare Library combine to provide a compelling...
    03/02/12	“KINGS & CREATORS” AT THE HARRY RANSOM CENTER Harry Ransom Center “KINGS & CREATORS” AT THE HARRY RANSOM CENTER Presented by Harry Ransom Center at Harry Ransom Center March 2, 2012 Eat, drink, and be merry (Luke 12:19) at this opening reception for the exhibition The King James Bible: Its History and Influence on Friday, March 2. Enjoy a royal photo booth, screenings in the theater curated by filmmaker Tommy Swenson, light bites, seventeenth-century English music performed by musicians from The University of Texas at Austin's Butler School of Music, and more. Guests will be eligible to win a "King for a Day" prize and will learn about the...

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    02/17/12	Culinary Preview at Ransom Center's The King James Bible: Its History and Influence Culinary Preview at Ransom Center's The King James Bible: Its History and Influence Presented by Harry Ransom Center February 17, 2012 Enjoy a culinary preview of the exhibition The King James Bible: Its History and Influence with the Ransom Center and the Central Market (CM) Cooking School. Join us for a seventeenth-century-inspired-cooking class on Friday, February 17, at 6:30 p.m. at the Central Market on North Lamar. Enjoy dinner, wine, and cooking demonstrations by Central Market Cooking School Chef Louis Ortiz as he recreates and interprets dishes from the era of Shakespeare and King James. The menu...
    02/22/12	Poetry on the Plaza: Translation Harry Ransom Center Poetry on the Plaza: Translation Presented by Harry Ransom Center at Harry Ransom Center February 22, 2012 The Harry Ransom Center and Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies (TILTS) present the Poetry on the Plaza event Translation on Wednesday, February 22, at noon. Visiting poets and scholars read their favorite poems in translation as TILTS kicks off its spring symposium, Poets & Scholars: Creative, Cultural and Critical Crossings. Readers include poets Cyrus Cassells, Marilyn Hacker, Fady Joudah, Eileen Myles, Urayoán Noel, and Valerie Martinez as...
    02/28/12- 07/29/12	“The King James Bible: Its History and Influence” Harry Ransom Center “The King James Bible: Its History and Influence” Presented by Harry Ransom Center at Harry Ransom Center February 28-July 29, 2012 “Kings & Creators” Opening Reception on March 2 Four hundred years after its first printing, the King James translation of the Bible remains a vital work whose language permeates contemporary music, literature, and everyday speech. The exhibition tells the little-known story of one of the most widely read and printed books in the history of the English language. Materials from the Ransom Center and Folger Shakespeare Library combine to provide a compelling...
    03/02/12	“KINGS & CREATORS” AT THE HARRY RANSOM CENTER Harry Ransom Center “KINGS & CREATORS” AT THE HARRY RANSOM CENTER Presented by Harry Ransom Center at Harry Ransom Center March 2, 2012 Eat, drink, and be merry (Luke 12:19) at this opening reception for the exhibition The King James Bible: Its History and Influence on Friday, March 2. Enjoy a royal photo booth, screenings in the theater curated by filmmaker Tommy Swenson, light bites, seventeenth-century English music performed by musicians from The University of Texas at Austin's Butler School of Music, and more. Guests will be eligible to win a "King for a Day" prize and will learn about the...

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    02/01/12	Poetry on the Plaza: Love Harry Ransom Center
    12/07/11	The Encyclopedia Show: Censorship ND at 501 Studios
    12/01/11	Curator's Tour: Banned, Burned, Seized, and Censored Harry Ransom Center
    11/30/11	Poetry on the Plaza: Winter Harry Ransom Center
    11/21/11	Music from the Collections: Façade Harry Ransom Center
    11/17/11	The Future of Independent Bookselling: The View from Austin Harry Ransom Center
    11/03/11	A “Smut” Sampler: A Light-Hearted Reading of Selections from Some Notorious Banned Books Harry Ransom Center
    11/02/11	Poetry on the Plaza: Bohemian Rhapsodies: Poems of Greenwich Village Harry Ransom Center
    10/27/11	Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird Harry Ransom Center
    10/13/11	Ulysses "Seen" Harry Ransom Center
    10/06/11	Curator's Tour: The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door: A Portal to Bohemia, 1920–1925 Harry Ransom Center
    09/30/11	Central Market Cooking Class Central Market Cafe - Central
    09/29/11	“The Importance of Being Morris L. Ernst—The Man Who Took on the Censors and Freed 'Ulysses'” Harry Ransom Center
    09/28/11	Poetry on the Plaza: "Actors from the London Stage" Harry Ransom Center
    09/27/11	Curator's tour: "Banned, Burned, Seized, and Censored" Harry Ransom Center
    09/25/11	Austin Museum Day Harry Ransom Center
    09/22/11	Harry Ransom Lecture: Elliott Erwitt Jessen Auditorium in Homer Rainey Hall
    09/20/11	Harry Ransom Lecture: Nicole Krauss Jessen Auditorium in Homer Rainey Hall
    09/15/11	"African American Poetry: Past, Present, and Future" Harry Ransom Center
    09/14/11	Poetry on the Plaza: Harry Ransom Center
    09/09/11	Uncensored Harry Ransom Center
    09/06/11- 01/22/12	The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door: Browsing in Bohemia, 1920–1925 Harry Ransom Center
    09/06/11- 01/22/12	Banned, Burned, Seized, and Censored Harry Ransom Center
    07/21/11	Tennessee Williams Film Series: Sweet Bird of Youth Harry Ransom Center
    07/07/11	Tennessee Williams Film Series: Baby Doll Harry Ransom Center
    06/23/11	Tennessee Williams Film Series: Cat on Hot Tin Roof Harry Ransom Center
    06/09/11	Tennessee Williams Film Series: A Streetcar Named Desire Harry Ransom Center
    05/13/11	Postcards from America Jessen Auditorium in Homer Rainey Hall
    05/04/11	Poetry on the Plaza: Singers and Songwriters Harry Ransom Center
    04/25/11	Harry Ransom Lecture: United States Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin Harry Ransom Center
    04/16/11	Screening of All the President's Men
    04/15/11	Celebrate the release of David Foster Wallace's The Pale King Jessen Auditorium in Homer Rainey Hall
    04/07/11	“Tennessee Transforming: Endings for Summer and Smoke” Harry Ransom Center
    03/31/11	“Humanists with Dirty Fingers: Correctors in the Renaissance Printing House” Harry Ransom Center
    03/26/11	Gallery Tours: Take a Tour to Celebrate Tennessee Williams’s 100th Birthday Harry Ransom Center
    03/24/11	Curator's Tour: Becoming Tennessee Williams Harry Ransom Center
    03/03/11	"Tennessee Williams and the Out-Crying Heart”
    03/02/11	Poetry on the Plaza: Culture Unbound Harry Ransom Center
    02/24/11	"The Thrill of the Chase" Harry Ransom Center
    02/15/11	Curator's Tour of Culture Unbound: "Collecting in the Twenty-First Century" Harry Ransom Center
    02/10/11	Curator's Tour: "Becoming Tennessee Williams" Harry Ransom Center
    02/04/11	Harry Ransom Center hosts "Wild at Heart" Harry Ransom Center
    02/02/11	Poetry on the Plaza: "Tennessee Williams" Harry Ransom Center
    02/01/11- 07/31/11	Becoming Tennessee Williams Harry Ransom Center
    02/01/11- 07/31/11	Culture Unbound: Collecting in the Twenty-First Century Harry Ransom Center
    12/07/10	Curator's Tour of Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection Harry Ransom Center
    12/02/10	“Winston Churchill’s Public Library” Harry Ransom Center
    12/01/10	Poetry on the Plaza: Harmonica Bob: The Poetry of Bob Dylan Harry Ransom Center
    11/11/10	“Proust, Paintings, and the Making of À la recherche du temps perdu” Harry Ransom Center
    11/04/10	"Early Inventors of Photography" Harry Ransom Center
    10/28/10	“Civility in a Fractured Society” Harry Ransom Center
    10/19/10	"The Lives and Work of Helmut and Alison Gernsheim" Harry Ransom Center
    10/14/10	A Conversation with Charles R. Larson Harry Ransom Center
    09/29/10	Poetry on the Plaza: "Actors from the London Stage: Greece is the Word" Harry Ransom Center
    09/16/10	Curator's Tour of "Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection" Harry Ransom Center
    09/14/10	Consider the Archive: An Evening of David Foster Wallace Harry Ransom Center
    09/10/10	Picture Perfect Evening Harry Ransom Center
    09/07/10- 01/02/11	Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection Harry Ransom Center
    07/22/10	Making Movies Film Series:Casino Harry Ransom Center
    07/15/10	Making Movies Film Series:Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Harry Ransom Center
    07/08/10	Making Movies Film Series:Detour Harry Ransom Center
    06/24/10	Making Movies Film Series:North by Northwest Harry Ransom Center
    06/17/10	Making Movies Film Series:Black Narcissus Harry Ransom Center
    06/10/10	Making Movies Film Series:Duel in the Sun Harry Ransom Center
    05/06/10- 05/27/10	Mexican Revolution Films of 70s Harry Ransom Center
    05/05/10	Poetry on the Plaza: Cinco de Mayo Harry Ransom Center
    04/29/10	Film: Another Glorious Day Harry Ransom Center
    04/27/10	Reading:Peter Carey Harry Ransom Center
    04/21/10	Poetry on the Plaza: Water, Air, Earth, and Fire Harry Ransom Center
    04/20/10	Reading: Angella Nazarian Harry Ransom Center
    04/12/10	Film: Peter Matthiessen Harry Ransom Center
    04/08/10	Reading: Ian Sinclair Harry Ransom Center
    04/07/10	Poetry on the Plaza: Spring into Love Harry Ransom Center
    03/25/10	Curator's Tour of Making Movies Harry Ransom Center
    03/04/10	Lecture: Patrick Keating Harry Ransom Center
    03/03/10	Poetry on the Plaza: The Poetry of Africa Harry Ransom Center
    03/02/10	Reading: John Banville Harry Ransom Center
    02/26/10	A Tribute to J. D. Salinger Harry Ransom Center
    02/25/10	Lecture: Sarah Greenough Harry Ransom Center
    02/22/10	Bill Hobby Harry Ransom Center
    02/18/10	Music from the Collections: Michael Schneider Harry Ransom Center
    02/16/10	Curator's Tour of Making Movies Harry Ransom Center
    02/12/10	Making Movies Red Carpet Event Harry Ransom Center
    02/11/10	Discussion with Charles R. Larson Harry Ransom Center
    02/09/10- 08/01/10	¡Viva! Mexico's Independence Harry Ransom Center
    02/09/10- 08/01/10	Making Movies Harry Ransom Center
    02/03/10	Poetry on the Plaza: A Poet Walks into a Movie Harry Ransom Center
    12/10/09	Curators' Tour of From Out That Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe Harry Ransom Center
    12/07/09	Other Worlds Film Series: Stardust Harry Ransom Center
    12/03/09	Making Sense of Hard Times Harry Ransom Center
    11/23/09	Other Worlds Film Series: Forbidden Planet Harry Ransom Center
    11/12/09	Harry Ransom Lecture: James Fenton Harry Ransom Center
    11/09/09	Other Worlds Film Series: A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune) Harry Ransom Center
    11/05/09	Frances Kiernan on Biography: One Biographer and Two Very Different Women Harry Ransom Center
    11/05/09	Other Worlds Tour: Rare Astronomical Works Harry Ransom Center
    11/04/09	Poetry on the Plaza: Harry Ransom Center
    10/31/09	Texas Book Festival Texas Capitol
    10/29/09	Music from the Collections: Can You Tell a Joke with Music? Jessen Auditorium in Homer Rainey Hall
    10/29/09	Harry Ransom Performance Harry Ransom Center
    10/26/09	Poe Film Series: Spirits of the Dead Harry Ransom Center
    10/22/09	From Out That Shadow Curators Tour: The Life and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe Harry Ransom Center
    10/22/09	Harry Ransom Tour Harry Ransom Center
    10/15/09	The Tell Tale Heart Harry Ransom Center
    10/15/09	Harry Ransom Performance: Lucien Douglas Harry Ransom Center
    10/10/09	Poe Family Mystery Tour Harry Ransom Center
    10/08/09	Harry Ransom Lecture: Alan Furst Harry Ransom Center
    10/07/09	Poetry on the Plaza: Edgar Allen Poe Harry Ransom Center
    10/05/09- 10/19/09	Ransom Center: Poe Film Series Harry Ransom Center
    09/30/09	Poetry on the Plaza: The Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy Harry Ransom Center
    09/28/09	Poe Film Series: The Fall of the House of Usher La Chute de la Maison Usher Harry Ransom Center
    09/24/09	Edgar Allan Poe: Poet and Storyteller Jessen Auditorium in Homer Rainey Hall
    09/17/09	From Out That Shadow: Curator's Tour Harry Ransom Center
    09/08/09- 01/03/10	From Out That Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe Harry Ransom Center
    09/08/09- 01/03/10	Other Worlds: Rare Astronomical Works Harry Ransom Center
    07/23/09	Orientalist Silents Film Series: The Adventures of Prince Achmed Harry Ransom Center
    06/25/09	Orientalist Silents Film Series: The Thief of Bagdad Harry Ransom Center
    06/18/09	Hayden Herrera on Frida Kahlo: Her Art and Life: Harry Ransom Center
    06/11/09	Orientalist Silents Film Series: The Sheik Harry Ransom Center
    05/06/09	Poetry on the Plaza: Surrealism in Latin America Harry Ransom Center
    05/05/09- 01/03/10	Frida Kahlo's Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird Harry Ransom Center
    04/28/09	Rubáiyát Film Series: The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam Harry Ransom Center
    04/23/09	Did Shakespeare Revise? And Why We Should Care Harry Ransom Center
    04/22/09	Poetry on the Plaza: Marathon reading of Shakes-peares Sonnets Harry Ransom Center
    04/16/09	Focus on Photography: Peter Feldstein Harry Ransom Center
    04/09/09	Music From the Collections: The Rubáiyát Songbook Harry Ransom Center
    04/02/09	Harry Ransom Lecture: Ed Ruscha AT&T Conference Center
    04/01/09	Poetry on the Plaza: April Fools Harry Ransom Center
    03/26/09	Curator’s Tour of Fritz Henle: In Search of Beauty Harry Ransom Center
    03/24/09	Rubáiyát Film Series: The Wind Will Carry Us Harry Ransom Center
    03/12/09	Harry Ransom Lecture: Azar Nafisi AT&T Conference Center
    03/05/09	“The World Every Week: Picture Magazines and the Golden Age of Photojournalism” Harry Ransom Center
    03/04/09	Poetry on the Plaza: Persian Poetry Harry Ransom Center
    02/26/09	Music from the Collections: Anthony Burgess Harry Ransom Center
    02/24/09	Rubáiyát Film Series: The Lives, Loves, and Adventures of Omar Khayyám Harry Ransom Center
    02/19/09	Curators’ Tour of The Persian Sensation: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in the West Harry Ransom Center
    02/05/09	Harry Ransom Lecture: David Mamet Texas Union Theater
    02/04/09	Poetry on the Plaza: The Rossetti Circle Harry Ransom Center
    02/03/09	“The Life and Legacy of Fritz Henle” Harry Ransom Center
    02/03/09- 08/02/09	The Persian Sensation: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in the West Harry Ransom Center
    02/03/09- 08/02/09	Fritz Henle: In Search of Beauty Harry Ransom Center
    01/26/09	Harry Ransom Lecture: Barry Unsworth Harry Ransom Center
    09/02/08- 01/04/09	A Cabinet of Drawings Harry Ransom Center
    09/02/08- 01/04/09	The Mystique of the Archive Harry Ransom Center
    07/24/08	Rebel Classics Film Series: "Look Back in Anger" Harry Ransom Center
    07/17/08	The Tosca String Quartet Performs Lee Hyla's Arrangement of "Howl" Harry Ransom Center
    07/10/08	Violet Crown Radio Players Perform an Episode of "Dangerous Assignment" Harry Ransom Center
    06/26/08	Rebel Classics Film Series: "Rebel Without a Cause" Harry Ransom Center
    06/20/08	Film Action 7 Harry Ransom Center
    06/19/08	Memory and Reconciliation: Civil War and Trauma in El Salvador Harry Ransom Center
    06/12/08	Violet Crown Radio Players Perform "The Case of the Crooked Candle" Harry Ransom Center
    06/12/08	VIOLET CROWN RADIO PLAYERS "THE CASE OF THE CROOKED CANDLE" Harry Ransom Center
    06/05/08	Marlon Brando in The Wild One Harry Ransom Center
    05/22/08	OMINIOUS PARALLELS: EL SALVADOR Harry Ransom Center
    05/22/08	Ominous Parallels - El Salvador as Foreshadowing Harry Ransom Center
    05/08/08- 08/03/08	Destiny's Children - L.A. Gangs in Post-war El Salvador Harry Ransom Center
    05/08/08	Lecture: Destiny's Children - L.A. Gangs in Post-war El Salvador Harry Ransom Center
    05/07/08	Poetry on the Plaza - Lost and Found Harry Ransom Center
    04/18/08	Beat Poet Anne Waldman Harry Ransom Center
    04/17/08- 08/03/08	Inside El Salvador Harry Ransom Center
    04/09/08	Beat Film Series with Desistfilm, Skyscraper Harry Ransom Center
    04/05/08	Scroll Party at the Harry Ransom Center Harry Ransom Center
    04/02/08	California Beat: West Coast Art from the Beat Era Harry Ransom Center
    03/20/08	Celebrating On the Road Harry Ransom Center
    03/19/08	Shakespeare in Our Time Harry Ransom Center
    03/07/08	Gallery Tour of Jess: To and From the Printed Page Harry Ransom Center
    03/06/08	Hearing Private History: The Home Recordings of John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsber Harry Ransom Center
    03/05/08	Poetry on the Plaza: On the Road Harry Ransom Center
    02/28/08	Considering Jess Today Harry Ransom Center
    02/28/08	Curators' and Artist's Talk for Jess: To and From the Printed Page Harry Ransom Center
    02/21/08	Beat Voices Harry Ransom Center
    02/15/08	Beat Love Poems Harry Ransom Center
    02/12/08- 04/06/08	Jess: To and From the Printed Page Harry Ransom Center
    02/05/08- 08/03/08	On the Road with the Beats Harry Ransom Center
    02/04/08	A Conversation with David Mamet University of Texas at Austin
    11/29/07	Beckett's Library and Manuscripts Harry Ransom Center
    11/28/07	An Evening with Rude Mechanicals The Off Center
    11/15/07	Shakespearean Jealousies: T. S. Eliot and Othello Harry Ransom Center
    10/08/07- 10/29/07	Robert De Niro Film Series Harry Ransom Center
    09/04/07- 12/30/07	Dress Up: Portrait and Performance in Victorian Photography Harry Ransom Center
    09/04/07- 12/30/07	Rehearsing the American Dream: Arthur Miller's Theater Harry Ransom Center
    04/18/07- 05/06/07	David Mamet Papers Harry Ransom Center
    03/20/07	O. Henry Short Story Prize Winners: Performance Harry Ransom Center
    03/20/07	O. Henry Short Story Prize Winners: Performance Harry Ransom Center
    03/07/07	Poetry on the Plaza: All the King's Men Harry Ransom Center
    02/07/07	Poetry on the Plaza: Jazz Poetry Harry Ransom Center
    01/30/07- 07/29/07	The American Twenties Harry Ransom Center
    12/01/06- Ongoing	The First Photograph Harry Ransom Center
    12/01/06- Ongoing	The Gutenberg Bible Harry Ransom Center
    09/05/06- 12/31/06	Feliks Topolski: Portraits of Britain's Twentieth-Century Literary Greats Harry Ransom Center
    09/05/06- 12/31/06	Norman Mailer Takes on America Harry Ransom Center

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    • Event Name: Becoming Tennessee Williams
      "A Great Collection!"
      Review posted by: Ruby Sinclair from Austin, TX, Feb 21, 2011
      

      Since moving to Austin, I have been very impressed with the work that the Harry Ransom Center does and exhibits that they are able to bring to Austin. Becoming Tennessee Williams is no exception!... Expand

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      Since moving to Austin, I have been very impressed with the work that the Harry Ransom Center does and exhibits that they are able to bring to Austin. Becoming Tennessee Williams is no exception! Williams has brought so much to the literary and theatrical world. This exhibit is a fantastic look into the behind the scenes of his creative contribution to the world. I would very much recommend checking it out! Collapse

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    • Event Name: Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection
      "If you love Photography, You'll love this!"
      Review posted by: Linda M. from Austin, TX, Sep 14, 2010
      

      A wonderful display of photographs! Have you ever heard of SALT Paper photos? I hadn't until I saw this exhibit. Also, see the different phases of the moon from the 1800’s, quite amazing.... Expand

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      A wonderful display of photographs! Have you ever heard of SALT Paper photos? I hadn't until I saw this exhibit. Also, see the different phases of the moon from the 1800’s, quite amazing. There are so many photographs, by many wonderful photographers. It is very difficult to pinpoint anyone photo that is better than the other. I also enjoyed the display of cameras; one of my favorites was the spy camera. A really cool way to learn about photography, to see where it has been and where it is going. So get going to the Harry Ransom Center and check out this awesome exhibit and see for yourself how truly lucky we are to have a place like the Ransom Center in town! Collapse

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    • Event Name: Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection
      "See again and again"
      Review posted by: Ruby Sinclair from Austin, TX, Sep 10, 2010
      

      The fact that we have an opportunity to see such amazing works of art...and that they are such an ingrained part of the history of art... makes me feel so blessed to live in Austin! Outstanding... Expand

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      The fact that we have an opportunity to see such amazing works of art...and that they are such an ingrained part of the history of art... makes me feel so blessed to live in Austin! Outstanding exhibit! I will be back multiple times during the course of the time it is here! And kudos to Harry Ransom Center for not only a great exhibit but a terrific opening reception! A must do again for every opening they have! Collapse

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    • Event Name: Making Movies
      "Gems From the Silver Screen"
      Review posted by: Silver Stage Siren from Austin, TX, Feb 19, 2010
      

      Film fans are certain to be intrigued by the Harry Ransom Center's new exhibit, "Making Movies." Each area of the exhibit details a distinct aspect of the movie-making process, including producing,... Expand

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      Film fans are certain to be intrigued by the Harry Ransom Center's new exhibit, "Making Movies." Each area of the exhibit details a distinct aspect of the movie-making process, including producing, directing, writing, acting, cinematography, sound, hair and makeup, costume design, and publicity. A wide range of movies from different eras are represented. Most intriguing are the intimate letters, handwritten comments in screenplays, and sketched storyboards from some of Hollywood's most famous movie denziens, including Alfred Hitchcock, David Mamet, Victor Fleming, and David O. Selznick. As an avid "Gone With The Wind" fan, I was most awestruck by the stunning red dress worn by Vivien Leigh in her portrayal of Scarlett O'Hara. While the exhibit was meticulously curated and accessible to a wide range of audiences, I would have liked to see a more chronological flow to some of the groupings of materials. Overall, this exhibit ranks as one of Austin's finest, and it is also free! Collapse

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    • Event Name: Did Shakespeare Revise? And Why We Should Care
      "This program has been cancelled"
      Comment posted by: Alicia Dietrich from Harry Ransom Center, Apr 15, 2009
      

      This lecture has been cancelled: www.hrc.utexas.edu/events

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      This lecture has been cancelled: www.hrc.utexas.edu/events

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