Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. Lewis Carroll at Texas : the Warren Weaver Collection and related Dodgson materials at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. Compiled by Robert N. Taylor with the assistance of Roy Flukinger, photography, John O. Kirkpatrick, manuscripts, Cinda Ann May, books and periodicals. (Carroll Studies, no. 8). Austin, Tex. : Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin, 1985

Item — Box: 51, Item: 095

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection: Collection contains books, figurines, ornaments, note cards, calendars, posters, dolls, phonograph records, audio tapes, slides and memorabilia. Material used include: ceramic, resin, styrofoam, paper, fabric, metal, slides and crystal.

Della Thomas collected all types of artifacts related to the Lewis Carroll characters created for Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass. Sir John Tenniel’s illustrations of Carroll’s works are prominent throughout the collection. Other illustrators include Walt Disney, Liz Reber, Barry Moser, Jane Breskin Zalben, and others. The slides collected by Della Thomas during her travel feature locations and settings of various children’s stories. These slides were transferred to the collection from the Curriculum Materials Library.

Dates

1985

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the Oklahoma Open Records Act (http://www.odl.state.ok.us/lawinfo/docs/2006-LibraryLaws-PartE.pdf), and other relevant regulations. Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational,... medical, and personnel records. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which Oklahoma State University Libraries assumes no responsibility. See more