Editor Pick
Harry Ransom Center
- August 13, 2000
- Rated 4 of 5 by
Tryon from Austin, Texas
The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
In addition to housing the Guttenberg Bible (the first surviving book printed from moveable type on a printing press), the HRC is a repository for extensive collections spanning photography, theater arts, film, music, literature and visual art.
Housing original manuscripts of Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Dylan Thomas, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck and many others, it is a valuable resource for scholars and the intellectually curious alike.
The photography collection consists of more than 5 million original photographs and transparencies. The art collection contains a wide array of painting and sculpture from around the world spanning five centuries. Antiquities from ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt abound. A jewel that even many Austinites have yet to discover, the Harry Ransom Center definitely merits a visit.
From journal Laid-Back in Austin, Texas