Skip to content

OPEN TODAY: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.

Tickets

Rare Books

New publications, printed for James Ridgway, York Street, St. James's Square

Image not available



You might also be interested in

  • Image not available

    James C. Ridgway diary

    Manuscripts

    Pocket diary that Ridgeway kept in 1865 includes brief accounts of the battle at Hatcher's Run (Feb.5-7), Watkins's House (Mar. 25), the Appomattox Campaign (Mar. 28-April 9), the surrender of Lee and his army, and March to Washington, D.C. (May 2-12). The diary effectively ends on May 16; the rest of the manuscript consists of brief entries, mostly scattered accounts made in the 1868-1872.

    mssHM 68424

  • Printing-house Square. New York

    Printing-house Square. New York

    Visual Materials

    Image of a street-level view of Printing House Square in New York City; business buildings for the New York Times, the Tribune, and other printers and publishers surround a bustling city street intersection; pedestrians, horse-drawn vehicles, a military band and ranks of soldiers on parade fill the square.

    priJLC_VIEW_004415

  • Image not available

    New Scene In William Tell

    Rare Books

    K-D 592

  • Image not available

    Bell Ringers Monument (James Gordon Bennett Memorial), Herald Square, New York City, New York

    Manuscripts

    The Albert R. Hibbs Papers, 1884-2009 (80 boxes) document the personal life and career of Hibbs as a manager and scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the relationships between JPL, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and the development of the solar system exploration programs. Hibbs' consulting work for television and radio programs, Biosphere 2, and Morgantown Area Rapid Transit System (MARTS) are also documented. Although the collection arrived at The Huntington in disarray, original order of the materials was maintained when possible and the arrangement reflects Hibbs' general organization by correspondent, subject, or format of materials. The collection is divided into ten series: Audio Visual Materials, Consulting Files, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Notebooks, Personal Files, Photographs and Negatives, Presentations and Speeches, Publications and Writings, Teaching Files, and Oversize. The bulk of collection materials date from 1931 to 1999 and consists of audio and video tapes, clippings, correspondence, memoranda, notes, photographs, publications, speeches, and writings. As the collection is arranged by both subject and format of the materials, researchers should be aware that materials are often dispersed through the series. For example, materials related to specific subjects are frequently represented in the JPL and Notebooks Series; similarly, Hibbs' friendship and collaboration with Roy L. Walford is documented in the Correspondence and Aging Research and Writings subseries of the Personal Series, in the Space Bioshpheres Ventures subseries of the Consulting series, as well as in the Audio Visual Materials Series. Correspondence is also dispersed throughout the series.

    mssHibbs