Guide - Harry Ransom Center - The University of Texas at Austin

Guide - Harry Ransom Center - The University of Texas at Austin

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The Harry Ransom Center houses one of the world’s finest cultural archives, with extensive collections of rare
books, manuscripts, photography, film, art, and the performing arts. The etched glass windows, designed by
Austin environmental graphics firm fd2s in collaboration with Lake/Flato Architects, bring a selection of the
Center’s diverse holdings into the public imagination. Located at the corner of 21st and Guadalupe streets on
The University of Texas at Austin campus. Free and open to the public. www.hrc.utexas.edu or 512-471-8944.
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37 Woodcut of initial letter “N” from The Four Gospels,
Eric Gill, 1931 38 Typescript of Victory, Joseph Conrad,
1914 39 Letter from Gutenberg Bible, ca. 1455 40 Doodle from Notebook II of Samuel
Beckett’s Watt, 1941 41 Pyramids at El-Geezeh, Francis Frith, ca. 1959 42 Portrait
of Edith Wharton, Kate Rogers Nowell, 1908 43 Self-portrait, Edward Lear, ca. 1881
44 Illustration for Maya Angelou’s poem “Our Grandmothers,” John Biggers, 1994
45 Poster from Gone With The Wind, 1939 46 Tom Stoppard, Martha Swope, 1983
47 Film still of Cary Grant in North by Northwest, 1959 48 Rooster device, Golden
Cockerel Press, ca. 1923 49 Silhouette of Oliver Twist, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould,
1890s 50 Gloria Swanson, Edward Steichen, 1924 51 Costume design for Peter
Pan, William Nicholson, 1904 52 Poster for Aida, Giuseppe Verdi, 1871 53 Portrait
of T. S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, 1949 54 Drawing, Edward Gorey, ca. 1948–52
55 Film still from West Side Story, 1961 56 Typescript of A Member of the Wedding,
Carson McCullers, ca. 1946 57 Filmstrip of Melvyn Douglas and Janet Gaynor in
A Star is Born, 1937 58 Woodcut showing streetcar named “Desire,” mid-20th century
59 Title page of Igor Stravinsky’s orchestration of Chopin’s Grande valse
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brillante, 1909 60 Charlie Parker LP, Dial Records, 1947 61 Publicity
photograph of Elizabeth Taylor in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1966
62 Portrait of Charles Dickens, J. C. Armytage, 1874 63 Caricature
of Arthur Wing Pinero, Max Beerbohm, 1906 64 Portrait of Katherine
Mansfield, Mark Luca, 20th century 65 Portrait of Georges Auric, Valentine
Hugo, 1921 66 Self-portrait, Erik Satie, 1918 67 Costume design for
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Percy Anderson, 1900 68 Scene conception
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69 Typescript of Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence, ca.
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mid-20th century 71 Drawing, Edward Gorey, ca. 1948–52 72 Portrait of Charles Dickens,
J. C. Armytage, ca. 1868 73 Engraving from Schreibkunst, Anton Neudorfer, 1601
74 Decoration from Harmonice Mundi, Johannes Kepler, 1619 75 Letter from Gutenberg
Bible, ca. 1455 76 First photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras, Joseph Nicéphore
Niépce, ca. 1826 77 Architectural drawing from La perspective, Hans Vredeman de Vries,
1639 78 Queen Victoria on Her Diamond Jubilee, Gunn and Stewart, 1897 79 Illustration
for Lewis Carroll’s “Hiawatha’s Photographing,” Arthur B. Frost, 1883 80 Botanical
sketch, John Ruskin, 1861–62 81 The New York Yankees As Seen in San Antonio,
E. O. Goldbeck, 1922 82 Borzoi device for Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., W. A. Dwiggins, 1937
83 Letter from Dora Carrington to Noel Carrington, 1921 84 Decoration from Harmonice
Mundi, Johannes Kepler, 1619 85 Nave of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, Philip
Henry Delamotte, ca. 1853 86 Letter by Jean Cocteau to Valentine Hugo with sketch of
Stravinsky and Nijinsky, 1922 87 Portrait of Edith Wharton, Kate Rogers Nowell, 1908
88 Costume design, Gordon Conway, 1920s 89 Facsimile of Photogenic
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Drawing, G. Francis, 1839 90 Dolphin and Anchor device of Aldine Press,
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1490s 91 Illuminated letter from Gutenberg Bible, ca. 1455 92 A Tewa Girl,
Edward S. Curtis, 1921 93 Portrait of James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, 1920
94 Henri-Pierre Roché, unidentified photographer, 1957 95 Illustration
from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, John Tenniel, 1865 96 Migrant
Mother, Dorothea Lange, 1936 97 Sketch of King Louis-Philippe, William
Makepeace Thackeray, 1830s 98 Horse in Motion, Eadweard Muybridge,
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1886 99 Portrait of Marianne Moore, Robert Stewart Sherriff, 1960s
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100 Portraits of D. H. Lawrence, Knud Merrild, ca. 1922–23 101 Model of
Motorcar No. 8, Norman Bel Geddes, ca. 1932
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1 Sketch of King Louis-Philippe, William Makepeace Thackeray, 1830s 2 Portrait of Guillaume
Apollinaire, Pablo Picasso, 1918 3 Milk Drop, Harold Edgerton, 1936 4 Portrait of Lytton
Strachey, unidentified artist, not dated 5 Woodcut of initial letter “L” from The Four Gospels, Eric
Gill, 1931 6 Dolphin and Anchor device of Aldine Press, 1490s 7 Costume design, Gordon Conway,
1920s 8 Portrait of Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ca. 1847 9 Illustration from Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland, John Tenniel, 1865 10 Costume design for Serena in Quadrille, Cecil
Beaton, 1952 11 Portraits of D. H. Lawrence, Knud Merrild, ca. 1922–23 12 Portrait of Lillian Hellman,
Don Bachardy, 1974 13 Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange, 1936 14 Portrait of T. E. Lawrence, Wyndham
Lewis, 1929 15 Portrait of Carson McCullers, Emanuel Romano, ca. 1948 16 Portrait of George Bernard
Shaw, Ivan Opffer, 1927 17 Costume design for Il buffone (the fool) in the ballet Chout, Emanuele
Luzzati, 1965 18 Poster for Houdini’s Giant Milk Can Escape, ca. 1908 19 Portrait of Dylan Thomas,
Michael Ayrton, 1947 20 Publicity photograph of Ingrid Bergman, ca. 1945 21 Illustration for Charles
Baudelaire’s Les fleurs du mal, Odilon Redon, 1891 22 Borzoi device for Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., W. A.
Dwiggins, 1937 23 Manuscript score of “Gaudeamus Igitur,” Franz Liszt, 1870 24 Drawing of Tennessee
Williams, Al Hirschfeld, ca. 1955–59 25 Illustration from Opera, Girolamo Gigli, early 18 th century
26 Portrait of James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, 1920 27 Tailpiece for The Canterbury Tales, Eric Gill,
1929–31 28 Letter by Jean Cocteau to Valentine Hugo with sketch of Stravinsky and Nijinsky, 1922
29 Title page from Shakespeare’s A Midsommer Nights Dreame, 1600 30 Self-portrait, E. E. Cummings,
1938 31 Oscar Wilde, Napoleon Sarony, 1882 32 Typescript of Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller, ca.
1948 33 Two Girls, Jno Trlica, 1930 34 Illuminated letter from Gutenberg Bible, ca. 1455 35 Title page
drawing for The Marionettes, William Faulkner, 1920 36 Storyboard from Gone With The Wind, 1939
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102 Portrait of Lord Byron, William Edward West, ca. 1822 103 Portrait of Christina Rossetti,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ca. 1847 104 Woodcut of initial letter “L” from The Four Gospels, Eric
Gill, 1931 105 Drawing from Italian architectural treatise, 17th century 106 Devil’s Bridge, Spain,
Charles Clifford, ca. 1858 107 Drawing, O. Henry, ca. 1905 108 Portrait of William Butler Yeats,
William Rothenstein, ca. 1897 109 Portrait of Katherine Mansfield, Mark Luca, 20th century 110
Engraving from De architectura libri dece, Vitruvius, 1521 111 Illustration for Maya Angelou’s
poem “Our Grandmothers,” John Biggers, 1994 112 Title page of Igor Stravinsky’s orchestration of
Chopin’s Grande valse brillante, 1909 113 Caricature of Arthur Wing Pinero, Max Beerbohm, 1906
114 Self-portrait, Edward Lear, ca. 1881 115 Woodcut from Johannes Regiomontanus’s Kalendarius
teutsch, 1512 116 Duchamp Descending A Staircase, Eliot Elisofon, 1952 117 Manuscript of “Do not
go gentle into that good night,” Dylan Thomas, ca. 1951 118 Cover illustration for Le chiffre sept, Jean
Cocteau, 1952 119 Title page drawing for The Marionettes, William Faulkner, 1920 120 Woodcut of
initial letter “N” from The Four Gospels, Eric Gill, 1931 121 Engraving from British Birds, Thomas Bewick,
1805 122 Kelmscott Press Chaucer, William Morris, 1896 123 Costume design for Il buffone (the fool)
in the ballet Chout, Emanuele Luzzati, 1965 124 Portrait of J. Frank Dobie, Tom Lea, 1953 125 Study for
Dante’s Dream, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1874 126 Oscar Wilde, Napoleon Sarony, 1882 127 Childhood
drawings, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, ca. 1870–71 128 Ruhr Miner, Fritz Henle, 1967 129 Doodle
from Notebook II of Samuel Beckett’s Watt, 1941 130 Binding for Charles Baudelaire’s Les fleurs du
mal, Charles Meunier, 1857 131 Sketch of Ezra Pound, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1914 132 Rooster
device, Golden Cockerel Press, ca. 1923 133 Silhouette of Oliver Twist, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould,
1890s 134 Picasso’s Eyes, David Douglas Duncan, 1957 135 Tailpiece for The Canterbury Tales, Eric
Gill, 1929–31 136 Chinese character for “Make it New,” Ezra Pound, 1947 137 Samuel Beckett in
Piccadilly Square, ca. 1954 138 Gloria Swanson, Edward Steichen, 1924 139 Engraving of Lunardi’s
balloon ascent, ca. 1785 140 Allie Mae Burroughs, Walker Evans, 1936 141 Joyce at Midnight,
Desmond Harmsworth, ca. 1930 142 Milk Drop, Harold Edgerton, 1936 143 Portrait of Lytton
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45 Decoration from Harmonice Mundi, Johannes Kepler, 1619
46 Letter from Gutenberg Bible, ca. 1455 47 Engraving
from Schreibkunst, Anton Neudorfer, 1601 48 Portrait of Charles Dickens, J. C. Armytage,
ca. 1868 49 Drawing, Edward Gorey, ca. 1948–52 50 Woodcut showing streetcar named
“Desire,” mid-20th century 51 Typescript of Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence, ca. 1919
52 Botanical sketch, John Ruskin, 1861–62 53 Illustration for Lewis Carroll’s “Hiawatha’s
Photographing,” Arthur B. Frost, 1883 54 Queen Victoria on Her Diamond Jubilee, Gunn and
Stewart, 1897 55 Architectural drawing from La perspective, Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1639
56 First photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, ca. 1826
57 Portrait of Edith Wharton, Kate Rogers Nowell, 1908 58 Letter by Jean Cocteau to
Valentine Hugo with sketch of Stravinsky and Nijinsky, 1922 59 Nave of the Crystal Palace
at Sydenham, Philip Henry Delamotte, ca. 1853 60 Decoration from Harmonice Mundi,
Johannes Kepler, 1619 61 Letter from Dora Carrington to Noel Carrington, 1921 62 Borzoi
device for Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., W. A. Dwiggins, 1937 63 Henri-Pierre Roché, unidentified
photographer, 1957 64 Portrait of James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, 1920
65 A Tewa Girl, Edward S. Curtis, 1921 66 Illuminated letter from
Gutenberg Bible, ca. 1455 67 Dolphin and Anchor device of Aldine Press,
1490s 68 Facsimile of Photogenic Drawing, G. Francis, 1839 69 Costume
Ransom Center Galleries
design, Gordon Conway, 1920s 70 Sketch of King Louis-Philippe, William
Makepeace Thackeray, 1830s 71 Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange, 1936
72 Illustration from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, John Tenniel, 1865
73 Model of Motorcar No. 8, Norman Bel Geddes, ca. 1932 74 Portraits
of D. H. Lawrence, Knud Merrild, ca. 1922–23 75 Portrait of Marianne
Moore, Robert Stewart Sherriff, 1960s
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78 Doodle from Notebook II of Samuel Beckett’s Watt, 1941 79 Letter from Gutenberg
Bible, ca. 1455 80 Typescript of Victory, Joseph Conrad, 1914 81 Woodcut of initial
letter “N” from The Four Gospels, Eric Gill, 1931 82 Silhouette of Oliver Twist, Sir Francis
Carruthers Gould, 1890s 83 Rooster device, Golden Cockerel Press, ca. 1923 84 Film
still of Cary Grant in North by Northwest, 1959 85 Tom Stoppard, Martha Swope, 1983
86 Poster from Gone With The Wind, 1939 87 Illustration for Maya Angelou’s poem
“Our Grandmothers,” John Biggers, 1994 88 Self-portrait, Edward Lear, ca. 1881 89 Film
still from West Side Story, 1961 90 Drawing, Edward Gorey, ca. 1948–52 91 Portrait of
T. S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, 1949 92 Poster for Aida, Giuseppe Verdi, 1871 93 Costume
design for Peter Pan, William Nicholson, 1904 94 Gloria Swanson, Edward Steichen, 1924
95 Manuscript score of “Gaudeamus Igitur,” Franz Liszt, 1870 96 Charlie Parker LP,
Dial Records, 1947 97 Title page of Igor Stravinsky’s orchestration of Chopin’s Grande
valse brillante, 1909 98 Woodcut showing streetcar named “Desire,”
mid-20th century 99 Filmstrip of Melvyn Douglas and Janet Gaynor in A
Star is Born, 1937 100 Typescript of A Member of the Wedding, Carson
McCullers, ca. 1946 101 Self-portrait, Erik Satie, 1918 102 Portrait of
Georges Auric, Valentine Hugo, 1921 103 Portrait of Katherine Mansfield,
Mark Luca, 20th century 104 Caricature of Arthur Wing Pinero, Max
Beerbohm, 1906 105 Portrait of Charles Dickens, J. C. Armytage, 1874
106 Publicity photograph of Elizabeth Taylor in Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?, 1966 107 Scene conception for Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca, 1939
108 Costume design for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Percy Anderson, 1900
109 Storyboard from Gone With The Wind, 1939
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1 Engraving from De architectura libri dece, Vitruvius, 1521 2 Portrait of Katherine Mansfield, Mark
Luca, 20th century 3 Portrait of William Butler Yeats, William Rothenstein, ca. 1897 4 Drawing,
O. Henry, ca. 1905 5 Devil’s Bridge, Spain, Charles Clifford, ca. 1858 6 Woodcut of initial letter “L”
from The Four Gospels, Eric Gill, 1931 7 Portrait of Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ca. 1847
8 Drawing from Italian architectural treatise, 17th century 9 Portrait of Lord Byron, William Edward
West, ca. 1822 10 Duchamp Descending A Staircase, Eliot Elisofon, 1952 11 Woodcut from Johannes
Regiomontanus’s Kalendarius teutsch, 1512 12 Self-portrait, Edward Lear, ca. 1881 13 Caricature of Arthur
Wing Pinero, Max Beerbohm, 1906 14 Title page of Igor Stravinsky’s orchestration of Chopin’s Grande valse
brillante, 1909 15 Illustration for Maya Angelou’s poem “Our Grandmothers,” John Biggers, 1994 16 The
New York Yankees As Seen in San Antonio, E. O. Goldbeck, 1922 17 Study for Dante’s Dream, Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, 1874 18 Portrait of J. Frank Dobie, Tom Lea, 1953 19 Costume design for Il buffone (the fool) in the
ballet Chout, Emanuele Luzzati, 1965 20 Kelmscott Press Chaucer, William Morris, 1896 21 Woodcut of
initial letter “N” from The Four Gospels, Eric Gill, 1931 22 Engraving from British Birds, Thomas Bewick, 1805
23 Title page drawing for The Marionettes, William Faulkner, 1920 24 Cover illustration for Le chiffre sept,
Jean Cocteau, 1952 25 Manuscript of “Do not go gentle into that good night,” Dylan Thomas, ca. 1951
26 Sketch of Ezra Pound, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1914 27 Binding for Charles Baudelaire’s Les fleurs
du mal, Charles Meunier, 1857 28 Doodle from Notebook II of Samuel Beckett’s Watt, 1941 29 Ruhr
Miner, Fritz Henle, 1967 30 Childhood drawings, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, ca. 1870–71 31 Oscar Wilde,
Napoleon Sarony, 1882 32 Chinese character for “Make it New,” Ezra Pound, 1947 33 Tailpiece for The
Canterbury Tales, Eric Gill, 1929–31 34 Picasso’s Eyes, David Douglas Duncan, 1957 35 Silhouette of
Oliver Twist, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould, 1890s 36 Rooster device, Golden Cockerel Press, ca. 1923
37 Horse in Motion, Eadweard Muybridge, ca. 1886 38 Portrait of Lytton Strachey, unidentified artist,
not dated 39 Milk Drop, Harold Edgerton, 1936 40 Joyce at Midnight, Desmond Harmsworth, ca. 1930
41 Allie Mae Burroughs, Walker Evans, 1936 42 Engraving of Lunardi’s balloon ascent, ca. 1785 43 Gloria
Swanson, Edward Steichen, 1924 44 Samuel Beckett in Piccadilly Square, ca. 1954
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110 Illustration from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, John Tenniel, 1865 111 Portrait of
Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ca. 1847 112 Costume design, Gordon Conway, 1920s
113 Dolphin and Anchor device of Aldine Press, 1490s 114 Woodcut of initial letter “L” from
The Four Gospels, Eric Gill, 1931 115 Portrait of Lytton Strachey, unidentified artist, not dated
116 Milk Drop, Harold Edgerton, 1936 117 Portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire, Pablo Picasso,
1918 118 Sketch of King Louis-Philippe, William Makepeace Thackeray, 1830s 119 Portrait
of T. E. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, 1929 120 Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange, 1936 121 Portrait
of Lillian Hellman, Don Bachardy, 1974 122 Portraits of D. H. Lawrence, Knud Merrild, ca. 1922–23
123 Costume design for Serena in Quadrille, Cecil Beaton, 1952 124 Borzoi device for Alfred A. Knopf,
Inc., W. A. Dwiggins, 1937 125 Illustration for Charles Baudelaire’s Les fleurs du mal, Odilon Redon, 1891
126 Publicity photograph of Ingrid Bergman, ca. 1945 127 Portrait of Dylan Thomas, Michael Ayrton,
1947 128 Poster for Houdini’s Giant Milk Can Escape, ca. 1908 129 Costume design for Il buffone (the
fool) in the ballet Chout, Emanuele Luzzati, 1965 130 Portrait of George Bernard Shaw, Ivan Opffer, 1927
131 Portrait of Carson McCullers, Emanuel Romano, ca. 1948 132 Self-portrait, E. E. Cummings, 1938
133 Title page from Shakespeare’s A Midsommer Nights Dreame, 1600 134 Letter by Jean Cocteau to
Valentine Hugo with sketch of Stravinsky and Nijinsky, 1922 135 Tailpiece for The Canterbury Tales, Eric
Gill, 1929–31 136 Portrait of James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, 1920 137 Illustration from Opera, Girolamo
Gigli, early 18th century 138 Drawing of Tennessee Williams, Al Hirschfeld, ca. 1955–59 139 Title page
drawing for The Marionettes, William Faulkner, 1920 140 Illuminated letter from Gutenberg Bible, ca.
1455 141 Two Girls, Jno Trlica, 1930 142 Typescript of Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller, ca. 1948
143 Oscar Wilde, Napoleon Sarony, 1882
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The Harry Ransom Center houses one of the world’s finest cultural archives, with extensive collections of rare
books, manuscripts, photography, film, art, and the performing arts. The etched glass windows, designed by
Austin environmental graphics firm fd2s in collaboration with Lake/Flato Architects, bring a selection of the
Center’s diverse holdings into the public imagination. Located at the corner of 21st and Guadalupe streets on
The University of Texas at Austin campus. Free and open to the public. www.hrc.utexas.edu or 512-471-8944.