Museum studies | Collections | The Huntington

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Museum culture
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A screen-printed portfolio cover containing eight screen prints that humorously critique museum methods and ideologies on material collection, exhibition, and organization. The portfolio was printed by Columbia University's LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies and is indicated by the chops (printer's marks) on the verso of the prints. The portfolio cover contains an image of a broken column, and the eight prints include labeled diagrams and charts of insects, sea creatures, birds, plants, and mythical creatures in a style reminiscent of nineteenth-century natural history illustrations. Titles include: On the Exhibition of a Museum Collection Object; Thorny Territory; Notable Bird Beaks of American History; Intangible Associations; Exhibition Paradise and Perdition; The Bestiary of Museum Visitors; On Museum Collection and Controls; and The Stegosaurus of Alfred H. Barr Jr. The prints are in red, blue, and black ink, and in pencil the artist has signed his name, date, and the edition number. This is the seventh edition out of the twenty that were printed.
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The museum of natural curiosities [graphic]
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Print depicts a horse-drawn closed wooden menagerie wagon from the back. The wagon is lettered with "The museum of natural curiosities". A young man is standing on tip toes, clutching the closed ramp, straining to peer in. The ramp is a flap which can be pulled (or opened) to reveal the scene inside: a lion, a tiger and another large cat ready to pounce on the young man, who is depicted at the end of the opened ramp with his arms outreached and his mouth open in surprise and horror.
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Blinding light
Rare Books
Explores creative genius and fame through the life of a writer whose search for a muse has led him into dangerous and destructive places.
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Museums - Southern California
Manuscripts
6 items: booklet, Guide to the Exhibit of Fossil Animals from Rancho La Brea, L.A. County Museum of History, Science & Art, 4/1915 ; booklet, Notes on the Pleistocene fossils obtained from Rancho La Brea asphalt pits, L.A. Museum of History, Science and Art, 11/1926 ; booklet, History of Puppetry, Los Angeles County Museum, 1959 ; booklet, Los Angeles County Museum - 50th Anniversary, 1910 - 1960 ; tear sheet, Los Angeles Free Press, 4/18/1975, "Freedom to ignore vs. responsibility" ; tear sheet, LAT, 3/27/1987, "Money shortage closes Southwest Museum library"; 4 postcards featuring the First Interstate Bank Athletic Foundation Sports Museum, 1985; postcard featuring Kimberly Crest House and Gardens in Redlands, CA.
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Snake game rules
Visual Materials
Image of a print showing a colorful board game with red, blue, and yellow spaces on a snake-like ribbon numbered from 1 to 122. The game is illustrated with 32 vignettes of views, caricatures, and portraits relating to American history. The illustrations are numbered and correspond to starred spaces on the ribbon. The title is decorative in red, white, and blue stripes, and towards the left of the title is a picture of an American flag with 34 stars and 7 stripes. Players roll dice to move across the board and then follow the instructions listed on the illustrations to move forward. The top of the print includes a portrait of George Washington, and the bottom of the print includes two engravings. The engraving on lower right is labeled, “96. Give the Player two throws” and includes an illustration of a man standing near a cabin and farming supplies. The engraving towards the lower right of the print is labeled. “119. Home of the Washington Family: the Player has lost, and muse cease to play,” along with a view of Washington’s home. Print is bordered on all sides with decorative motifs of leaves and flowers.
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Flower Studies: A Painting Book
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One painting book entitled Flower Studies: A Painting Book, published by McLoughlin Bros., New York, copyright 1902. The front cover features poppies bordered by other flowers. On the back cover in the lower right-hand corner appears the company's trademark and "No. 84 1/2." The title page is entitled Object Painting Book. The inside front cover depicts a mock palette of colors--red, green, yellow, blue and purple--which were meant to be used with the book, as explained in the instructions printed on the inside of the back cover. Six color images, including the cover and title page, are represented. Four of these within the book mirror four identical images printed only in outline. None of the outlined images have been filled in. On the upper edge of the title page, in pen, is the name "Catherine P. Stafford" and below that, in pencil, "$4.50". On the back inside cover, also in pen, is the same name--"Catherine P. Stafford".
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