Press Releases
2005
- Discovery and restoration of "Beyond the Rocks," A lost Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino silent film
- "Technologies of Writing" Examines the History and Style of Writing
- Best-selling author Simon Winchester Opens the 2005 Texas Book Festival
- Ransom Center Announces Application Process for Research Fellowships
- Ransom Center Announces Executive Curator of Photography and Visual Collections
- "The Image Wrought: Historical Photographic Approaches in the Digital Age" Opens Jan. 31
- Ransom Center's Conservation Department Celebrates 25 Years of Service
- Introduction of "Teaching Gutenberg," Online Materials for K-12 Educators
- Ransom Center Holds Works of Three Authors on Longlist for 2005 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
- Symposium Examines and Celebrates French Writer Raymond Queneau
- Ansel Adams Legacy Prints Exhibited at Ransom Center
- Herzstein Charitable Foundation Makes $800,000 Gift to Ransom Center
- Exhibition of Rare Photos Commemorate 60th Anniversary of End of World War II in Europe
- Ransom Center Receives Publications Design Awards
- Ransom Center Acquires Norman Mailer Archive
- "The Muse in Motion: Travel Literature through the Centuries" Opens April 5 at Ransom Center Galleries
- Ransom Center Displays Items from Cartography Collections in "Images of the World: Maps, Globes and Atlases"
- Ransom Center Celebrates National Poetry Month in April
- "In Flight": The Guild of Book Workers Presents Wright Brothers Exhibition
- "Place: Photographs of Environment and Community" Opens April 19 at Ransom Center Galleries
- Ransom Center introduces extensive Web publication on photojournalist David Douglas Duncan
- Harry Ransom Center Hosts Brit Noir Film Series
- Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers Open to Researchers and Public
- Ransom Center Commemorates 550th Anniversary Printing of the Gutenberg Bible with CD-ROM
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