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Harry Huntt Ransom, or 'The Great Acquisitor'
HARRY HUNTT RANSOM November 22, 1908–April 19, 1976 The Gutenberg Bible, completed in 1454, is the first substantial book printed with movable type. Of the twenty-one complete copies in existence, one is on view at The University of Texas at Austin’s Harry Ransom Center. This book—and the Center that houses it—are the proud legacy of Chancellor Harry Huntt Ransom known as “The Great Acquisitor.”Born in Galveston in 1908, Ransom came to U-T in 1935 as an... Read More