Harry Ransom Center

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/harry-ransom-center

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. When was Harry Ransom Center built?Humanities Research Center
2. How big is Harry Ransom Center?Approximately 42 million items
3. What is the location?University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
4. What is the annual research visits?Nearly 6,000
5. Where is the Harry Ransom Center located?It is in Austin, Texas, inside the University of Texas at Austin.
6. How many books and pictures does the Harry Ransom Center have?It has about one million rare books and five million photographs that show people, places, and events from long ago.

Primary Source Materials: Original documents, artifacts, or data created during the time period being studied.
Humanities Scholarship: Academic study focused on human culture, history, literature, philosophy, and the arts.
Cultural Heritage: The legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society inherited from past generations.