Jan 15, 2025 · Founded in 1957, the Harry Ransom Center is internationally recognized as a premier institution for humanities research and learning. The Lorne Michaels Collection will complement the Ransom Center’s existing holdings in literature, film, television and the performing arts. ... “Live From New York! The Making of Lorne Michaels” will ...

The Harry Ransom Center, known as the Humanities Research Center until 1983, 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.

Jan 15, 2025 · “Saturday Night Live” creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels donated his archive to the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin. Shelley Duvall, Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, Lorne Michaels, and Laraine Newman together in 1977.

Jan 15, 2025 · The Harry Ransom Center will showcase highlights of the Lorne Michaels Collection in an upcoming exhibition, Live From New York! The Making of Lorne Michaels, which will run from Sept. 20,...

August 4, 2023 - Harry Ransom Center. Finding Henry Street: the Broadway Revival of Funny Girl and New York City Dramaturgy. Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Broadway, Fanny Brice, Funny Girl, Ziegfeld Follies

Oct 4, 2022 · A visitor walks through the exhibition “Public Works: Art by Elizabeth Olds” at the Harry Ransom Center on Wednesday. From depictions of Depression-era America to captivating children’s books, the exhibition contains over 100 prints, paintings and illustrations that explore Old’s artistic legacy.

The Harry Ransom Center—originally named the Humanities Research Center—was founded in 1957 by Harry Huntt Ransom, a visionary English professor who rose through the ranks at The University of Texas to dean, vice president and provost, president, and eventually chancellor.

A Major Acquisition Announcement from the Harry Ransom Center... All programs and exhibitions are free unless otherwise noted. Your donation supports the Ransom Center's exhibitions and public programs.

The photographic morgue consists of approximately two million prints and one million negatives created for publication in the New York Journal-American newspaper. The bulk of the material covers the years from 1937 to the paper's demise in 1966.

Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin Scope and Contents The Production Photographs Collection consists predominantly of black and white publicity photographs documenting theatre productions, mainly in New York City, circa 1860-1998 (bulk 1900-1965).