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Harry Ransom Center

The Harry Ransom Center (until 1983 the Humanities Research Center) is an archive, library and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in the collection of literary and cultural artifacts from the Americas and Europe for the purpose of advancing the study of the arts and humanities. The Ransom Center houses 36 million literary manuscripts, one million rare books, five million photographs, and more than 100,000 works of art.[1]

Harry Ransom Center

Austin, Texas, US

1957

The center has a reading room for scholars and galleries which display rotating exhibitions of works and objects from the collections. In the 2015–16 academic year, the center hosted nearly 6,000 research visits resulting in the publication of over 145 books.[2]

Three copies of the 1623 of William Shakespeare's plays

First Folio

A suppressed 1865 first edition of , one of only 23 copies known to exist.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

The first edition of the 1572 Portuguese book , by Luis de Camões.

Os Lusíadas

The personal libraries of writers such as , Alice Corbin Henderson, Ezra Pound, Evelyn Waugh, and the Coleridge family.

Gabriel García Márquez

Max, D. T. (June 11, 2007). . The New Yorker. Retrieved 2007-06-20.

"Letter from Austin: Final Destination"

Pearson, Rachel (March 7, 2006). . The Daily Texan. Retrieved 2006-03-17.

"Center offers literary sort of Ransom"

Pearson, Rachel (March 8, 2006). . The Daily Texan. Retrieved 2006-03-17.

"Ransom Center criticized abroad"

Page, Caroline (October 30, 2007). . The Daily Texan. Retrieved 2007-10-30.

"HRC holds cultural gems"

Page, Caroline (November 15, 2007). . The Daily Texan. Retrieved 2007-11-19.

"Ransom Center leads in conservation"

Page, Caroline (December 4, 2007). . The Daily Texan. Retrieved 2007-12-04.

"Literary treasure hunt"

. April 29, 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-05-01. Retrieved 2008-05-01.

"Harry Ransom Center Acquires Rare Plantin Polyglot Bible"

Official website

The New Yorker, June 11, 2007

Why do the archives of so many great writers end up in Texas?