The Ransom Center files

Last summer I traveled to the amazing Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin. The material I uncovered there has inspired several posts, and there's a lot more to come! So today I thought I'd create a "file" that keeps track of these HRC posts and treasures. You don't want to miss any of these.

Wild About Harry:

Treasures of the Harry Ransom Center

More treasures of the Harry Ransom Center

Yes, there was a Vanishing Elephant poster

"Darling Kadaria Wilhelmina Weiss"

Houdini in the bank

The Houdini-Jeff Bezos connection

Houdini announces "Yar" as his next movie

Movie night

Houdini and The Divine Sarah

Nevil Maskelyne and the Water Torture Cell sale

Buried Alive surfaces in 1922

Unseen Houdini to end the year

Paging Professor Murat

Houdini's copper Milk Can?

Houdini takes the lid off Fleischmann’s Yeast

Dash and the duplicate Water Torture Cell

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Day 1 in paradise

Kit Clarke letter

More Treasures of the Harry Ransom Center

Houdini's ring of fire

Houdini's 12-page love letter to Bess

Houdini's Will

The Girl From Beyond

Maskelyne and the Torture Cell

Houdini's warning

And now a word from Kit Clarke

Bess to Conan Doyle

A Copper Milk Can?

Love on a "Sunday afternoon"

"I bid you velcome"

Happy Memorial Day from The White Mahatma

The Fleischmann’s Yeast letter

Good news from the Houdini household

The last anniversary

"My dear brother Ehrich"

Houdini resigns from the S.A.M.

Houdini sees Adelaide

Harry's zingers

"I played parts years ago"

"On my first lecture tour"

The Handcuff Expert

Thanks again to Eric Colleary and the staff of the Harry Ransom Center for allowing me to share these gems here on WILD ABOUT HARRY. The Harry Ransom Center is open to the public, so any of these treasures can be seen and studied firsthand.