Manuscripts
North wing reader's room, 1971
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Reception room in the library building
Manuscripts
MS note on verso reads "Old reception office pre 1972."
HIA Photographs
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Ahmanson Reading Room, July 15, 1971
Manuscripts
Slightly cropped version in HIA 21.10.1, folder labeled "General Photos Communications 1971-75." MS note on verso reads "July 15, 1971."
HIA 21.10.1
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Arabella Huntington Memorial Wing of the library building, with objects from the Arabella Huntington Memorial Art Collection
Manuscripts
MS note on verso reads "Sculpture Gallery, Arabella D. Huntington Memorial Art Collection. All the sculpture here is French, Eighteenth Century." Another copy is photCL 107 vol 13 photo 53. MS note on verso reads "Ruth Chase." Another copy is in HIA 60.1.14. Photograph appeared in Los Angeles Jewish, Community Press Special Edition, September 3, 1937.
HIA 60.1.14
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New library building wing under construction, February 13 1951
Manuscripts
A view of construction on the library building's new wing, showing cranes and workers, pouring concrete for the walls. MS note on verso reads "Tues. Feb. 13, 1951 Pouring vault walls."
HIA 60.1.14
North vista fountain
Visual Materials
MS note on verso reads "North vista fountain backed by columns."
photCL 107 vol9 pg29
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Ahmanson reading room, August 26 1949
Manuscripts
View of the Ahmanson reading room, full of readers. The large elevated desk which the man is standing next to is where library staff distributed requested materials from the rare book stacks immediately behind them and the manuscripts stacks as well. MS note on verso reads "Huntington Library Rare Book Reading Room August 26, 1949." Typed attached note reads "Rare Book Reading Room. In 1953, over 700 readers from all parts of the country and abroad, used the facilities of the Huntington Library. Henry E. Huntington Library San Marino, California."
HIA 60.1.14