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The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is an archive at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in the collection of literary and other cultural artifacts from the United States, Great Britain, and France. Among its holdings are a copy of the Gutenberg Bible and the first successful permanent photograph, produced by Nicéphore Niépce. An archive is a collection of records, charters and other documents belonging to any state, community or family, and the building(s) its kept in. ... The University of Texas at Austin, often called UT or Texas, is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. ... The Gutenberg bible owned by the US Library of Congress The Gutenberg Bible (also known as the 42-line Bible) is a print of the Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible that was printed by its namesake, Johann Gutenberg, in Mainz, Germany using moveable type, mass-produced starting on February... Nicéphore Niépces first photograph, circa 1826 Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (March 7, 1765 – July 5, 1833) was a French inventor, most noted as a pioneer in photography. ...
The HarryRansomHumanitiesResearchCenter is a library and archive at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in the collection of literary and other cultural artifacts from the United States and Europe.
The Center has a reading room for scholars, and the RansomCenter Galleries host exhibitions of works and objects from the collections.
The two most prominent possessions in the RansomCenter's archive—both of which are on display in the main lobby—are a copy of the Gutenberg Bible and the first successful permanent photograph, produced by Nicéphore Niépce.
The RansomCenter is a special collections research library at the University of Texas at Austin.
Research in the material sciences about the qualities of various materials used in conservation and procedures for the chemical treatment of artifacts influences the type of treatments we undertake.
John Kirkpatrick, curator of modern literature at the RansomCenter, has observed that the types of treatments have changed over the past twenty years with the practical realization by conservators and curators of the enormous number of artifacts that needed attention.
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