Churún Merú - The Tallest Angel

Revised 2025
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Harry Ransom Center at University of Texas at Austin

The Ruth Robertson Collection documents Robertson's career as a writer and photographer in Illinois, Alaska, and Venezuela with prints, negatives, transparencies, manuscripts, clippings, correspondence, and ephemera. The archive is organized into six series: I. Career, 1939-1992; II. Personal, 1910s-1978, undated; III. Correspondence, 1939-1991, undated; IV. Clippings, 1939-1992, undated; V. Ephemera, 1937-1991, undated; and VI. Pat Grant materials, 1940s-1993. The majority of materials are in English and a few items are in Spanish.

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00404

For more information, to view the Robertson archive, or to purchase prints of Ruth Robertson’s photographs, contact: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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Angel Falls by Kathryn Casey

Ruth Robertson's life has inspired a book: ANGEL FALLS, by bestselling author Kathryn Casey. While the book is historical fiction, Casey relied heavily on research materials from the Ruth Robertson collection at the University of Texas-Austin's Harry Ransom Center. ANGEL FALLS starts with Ruth living in Brazoria County, Texas, near the end of her life, and her earlier years - including the expedition to the falls - form an alternating plotline.

Here's a link to Casey's book on Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/bdet53ya

Houston Public Media

How Ruth Robertson’s expedition to the world’s tallest waterfall succeeded when many men failed

The story of the photographer, who spent her later years in the Houston area, and her historic 1949 expedition is told in “Angel Falls,” a new historical fiction novel from writer Kathryn Casey.

By Michael Hagerty

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2023/10/12/466520/how-ruth-robertsons-expedition-to-the-worlds-tallest-waterfall-succeeded-when-many-men-failed/

Islands in the Sky by Brett Basnett

Music and lyrics by Texas musician Brett Basnett. Used with permission.

Howard Goodman

In 1992 Ruth Robertson appointed Patricia Hubbard as her literary executor. Hubbard negotiated the transfer of Robertson’s archive to University of Texas at Austin. She recorded Robertson's oral history, and she and Howard Goodman curated an exhibit of Robertson’s photographs that traveled the United States.

While a number of the prints from the exhibition are vintage, the majority were archivally printed from Ruth’s original negatives by Howard Goodman, Photographer of Peekskill, New York.  Contact: hgphotog@gmail.com