Northeast Windows
From the Outside In: A Visitor's Guide to the Windows
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Portrait of Edith Wharton, Kate Rogers Nowell, 1908
Pyramids at El-Geezeh, Francis Frith, ca. 1959
Doodle from Notebook II of Samuel Beckett's Watt, 1941
This playful doodle depicting a man in a hat in the south atrium of the Harry Ransom Center is from the second of seven Watt manuscript notebooks. The notebooks are remarkable artifacts that provide a window into a time of transition for the renowned writer Samuel Beckett. Read more
Image courtesy of the Estate of Samuel Beckett.
Letter from Gutenberg Bible, ca. 1455
Typescript of Victory, Joseph Conrad, 1914
Woodcut of initial letter "N" from The Four Gospels, Eric Gill, 1931
Silhouette of Oliver Twist, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould, 1890s
Rooster device, Golden Cockerel Press, ca. 1923
Film still of Cary Grant in North by Northwest, 1959
Tom Stoppard, Martha Swope, 1983
Poster from Gone With The Wind, 1939
Illustration for Maya Angelou's poem "Our Grandmothers," John Biggers, 1994
Self-portrait, Edward Lear, ca. 1881
Film still from West Side Story, 1961
Drawing, Edward Gorey, ca. 1948–52
Portrait of T. S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, 1949
Poster for Aida, Giuseppe Verdi, 1871
Costume design for Peter Pan, William Nicholson, 1904
Gloria Swanson, Edward Steichen, 1924
Manuscript score of "Gaudeamus Igitur," Franz Liszt, 1870
Charlie Parker LP, Dial Records, 1947
Title page of Igor Stravinsky's orchestration of Chopin's Grande valse brillante, 1909
Woodcut showing streetcar named "Desire," mid-20th century
Filmstrip of Melvyn Douglas and Janet Gaynor in A Star is Born, 1937
Filmstrip of Melvyn Douglas and Janet Gaynor in A Star is Born, 1937
Filmstrip of Melvyn Douglas and Janet Gaynor in A Star is Born, 1937
Typescript of A Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers, ca. 1946
Carson McCullers sets the scene for her stage adaptation of The Member of the Wedding in this text selection from her papers, held by the Harry Ransom Center. Here begins the story of a lonely twelve-year-old girl, Frankie Addams, who wants to find a place to belong—her "we of me"—by joining with her older brother and his bride. As you stand looking at this window, a portrait of McCullers herself can be seen not far away, in the glass surrounding the Ransom Center's northwest atrium. Read more
Self-portrait, Erik Satie, 1918
Portrait of Georges Auric, Valentine Hugo, 1921
Portrait of Katherine Mansfield, Mark Luca, 20th century
Caricature of Arthur Wing Pinero, Max Beerbohm, 1906
Caricature of Arthur Wing Pinero, Max Beerbohm, 1906
Portrait of Charles Dickens, J. C. Armytage, ca. 1868
Publicity photograph of Elizabeth Taylor in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1966
Scene conception for Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca, 1939
Costume design for A Midsummer Night's Dream, Percy Anderson, 1900
Storyboard from Gone With The Wind, 1939
