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Before and After: Repairing a poster

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Harry Houdini slideshow celebrates 137th birthday

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The Art of the Letter: What we can learn from illustrated letters in the...

Al Hirschfeld's 1954 letter to Edward Weeks. © Al Hirschfeld. Reproduced by arrangement with Hirschfeld's exclusive representative, the Margo Feiden Galleries, Ltd., New York. www.alhirschfeld.com....

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Artifact in Harry Houdini scrapbook collection highlights career of mind...

The Ransom Center recently launched a new platform of digital collections on its website, which includes the Harry Houdini scrapbook collection. More than 50 items from that collection, including the...

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Digital collection features more than 8,000 items

The Ransom Center has launched a new platform of freely available digitized images of collection materials on its website. The new site contains more than 8,000 items and will continue to grow as newly...

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Fellows Find: H. P. Lovecraft letter sheds light on pivotal moment in his career

James Machin is a PhD student at Birkbeck, University of London, working on a thesis on early weird fiction, circa 1880 to 1914. He is also the editor of Faunus, the journal of the Friends of Arthur...

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