Harry Ransom Center (HRC)

The Harry Ransom Center is among the nation's finest research libraries and a place of unlimited discovery.

The collections assembled here document the work of some of our finest writers and artists and provide unprecedented access to the creative process while also helping us understand the historical moment out of which this work emerged.

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Image: Kristin Calhoun, US & them (Imbalances), 2014. Lithograph on Inomache Nacre paper, beeswax. Harry Ransom Center, 2023:0002:0001

What can words communicate visually? Where does reading blur with viewing, changing the ways in which we do both? This new exhibition at the Harry Ransom...

11/29 10am
ON VIEW: The Gutenberg Bible

See the 500-year-old book that shaped history! In Mainz, Germany, in the mid-1450s, Johann Gutenberg and his partner Johann Fust published more than 150...

11/29 10am
The Long Lives of Very Old Books

Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries, tracing them from printing houses into the...

11/29 10am
Boris Aronson (Ukranian-American, 1898–1980) [Wedding scene from Fiddler on the Roof] Ca. 1964. Ink, watercolor, acrylic, and crayon on paper. Boris Aronson Scenic Design Papers.

Playwrights are visionary storytellers. They are the first to conjure the world of a play or musical. Through evocative descriptions, they literally and...

11/29 10am
Image: Kristin Calhoun, US & them (Imbalances), 2014. Lithograph on Inomache Nacre paper, beeswax. Harry Ransom Center, 2023:0002:0001

What can words communicate visually? Where does reading blur with viewing, changing the ways in which we do both? This new exhibition at the Harry Ransom...

11/30 10am

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