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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visitors leaving a bus to visit exhibitions of Huntington Library, February 1938
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Three women and one man fill out cards so that they can be admitted to the library. The car park is visible in the background. Label accompanying photograph in album reads "HEH 144 Visitors leaving bus to visit exhibitions of Huntington Library." Another version of this photo is in HIA 60.1.14, and MS note on verso reads "HEH 144 Feb. 1938."
photCL 107 vol13 pg 27 (144)
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Worker in a sombrero stands next to a cereus plant with fruit on it. Label accompanying photograph in album reads "HEH 66 Huntington Desert Garden. The cactus apples of this Cereus are edible as well as decorative." Another copy of this photo is in HIA 60.1.11. MS note on verso reads "HEH 66 Feb 1938."
photCL 107 vol13 pg12 (66)
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Two women, one seated one standing, behind a desk in a rather cluttered office in the library building. The older woman on the left is wearing a floral dress, while the younger woman on the right wears a dark sweater with a white collar. Label accompanying photograph in album reads "HEH 117a Cataloguing manuscripts in Huntington Library." MS note above photo reads "Cuthbert Noya." Another version of this image is No. 514, Box 1, Pictures Archives. The label for that version reads "Head cataloger of manuscripts and assistant in manuscript alcove. In 1948-49 some 46,000 pieces of manuscript were processed." MS note on verso reads "HEH117a Feb 1938." The two women are Norma B. Cuthbert, seated, and Haydée Noya, standing.
photCL 107 vol13 pg22 (117a)
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A man and woman in period costume. The chair that the woman is sitting on, Poetry or History personified as a cupid, belongs to the set of two settees and ten chairs whose upholstery covers were woven at Gobelins Manufactory, Paris, probably under the supervision of Jacques Neilson (1714-1788), after design by François Boucher (1703-1770) and Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1733-1755). The covers were woven circa 1779, and the frames are nineteenth century. She is writing at a writing desk and filing cabinet (bureau plat et cartonnier), attributed to Etienne Doirat, made between 1720 to 1732. The man stands behind her, in front of a Beauvais tapestry, "La Pipée aux Oiseaux (The Bird Catchers)." Label accompanying photograph in album reads "HEH 34 Library room of Huntington Art Gallery, with figures. Writing table, with Cartonnier; of tulipwood and ormolu, Louis XV period." Another copy of a wider image has MS notes identifying the people as Don Vest (?) and Nell Webb.
photCL 107 vol13 (34)
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A couple in period costume in the library. The woman is seated on a settee while the man stands behind it. The settee is one of a set of two settees and ten armchairs. The settee's cover is entitled Five cupids shooting arrows. The woven upholstery cover was made at the Gobelins Manufactory, Paris, probably under the supervision of Jacques Neilson (1714-1788), after design by François Boucher (1703-1770) and Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1733-1755). The cover was woven circa 1779, and the frame is nineteenth century. Label accompanying photograph in album reads "HEH 33 Library room in Huntington Art Gallery, with figures in eighteenth-century costumes. Settee, Louis XVI period, carved wood, with Gobelins tapestry. Bach designed by Francois Boucher; seat, by Jean-Baptiste Oudry." Another copy of a wider image has MS notes identifying the people as Ted Koch (?) and Fran Evans.
photCL 107 vol13 (33)
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Three couples in the period costume in the west end of the library. A man stands by while a woman who is seated at the writing desk and filing cabinet (bureau plat et cartonnier), attributed to Etienne Doirat, are from 1720 to 1732. On the left is another couple, with a woman seated on a settee and a man standing behind it. In the background a third couple examine an oversized book. The settee and chairs belong to the set of two settees and ten chairs whose upholstery covers were woven at Gobelins Manufactory, Paris, probably under the supervision of Jacques Neilson (1714-1788), after design by François Boucher (1703-1770) and Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1733-1755). The covers were woven circa 1779, and the frames are nineteenth century. The screen on the right is a six-panel folding screen (paravent) made at the Savonnerie Manufactory, Chaillot workshop, Paris, after designs by Alexandre-François Desportes (1661-1743), made between 1719 and 1784; the frame is of a later date. On the wall on the right is a Beauvais tapestry, "La Pipée aux Oiseaux (The Bird Catchers)." Label accompanying photograph in album reads "HEH 32a West end of Library room in Huntington Art Gallery. Beauvais tapestry. Louis XV and Louis XVI furniture; carpet Louis XIV period." Another copy of this image has MS notes identifying the people (from left to right): Ted Koch (?), Fran Evans, Bob Wright, Norda Stokes (?), Don Vest (?), and Nell Webb.
photCL 107 vol13 (32a)