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Huntington Library institutional lantern slides

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Description: Over 200 black-and-white lantern slides (photographs) of Huntington Library buildings, employees, library stacks, collections, and art objects. Lantern slides of the Huntington Art Gallery include exteriors and interiors of gallery rooms: Chippendale Room; Renaissance Room; Sculpture Gallery; French Room; New Gallery; Library Room. There are also slides of art objects or paintings. Images of the Library include the manuscripts stacks, the rare books stacks, people viewing books, conservation staff; photographic reproduction; and library staff. There is also a box of 100 lantern slides related to Mark Twain and his works, most likely used for lectures.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1930s.
Call number: photCL 733
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of mid-20th century.

Lantern slides 1-40

Visual Materials

This collection contains 84 lantern slides from various photographers and publishers depicting images of Switzerland, England, Mexico, Washington D.C., and New England, as well as some portraits and scenes. Thirty-two of the slides were made by the Art and Travel Company based in Chicago.

photCL 519

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Lantern slides 41-84

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photCL 519

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A Handbook to the Huntington Library Exhbitition

Rare Books

Collection of more than 80 catalogs and gallery guides of exhibitions installed from 1929 to 2022 at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. The catalogs were intended for the reference use of the Library's Chief Curator of Rare Books and are often annotated with the call numbers of the Huntington holdings ues in the exhibits. The catalogs represented here focus primarily on the Library exhibit spaces: the Main Library Exhibit Hall and the West Hall. Later publications also record exhibits in the Dibner Hall of Sciences and the Boone Gallery. A few concern related exhibition material in the Art Collections. These catalogs represent the most comprehensive record of which library copies were displayed, especially for the years 1931-1975. Notations about the availability of photostats, facsimiles and slides as well as installation dates are included on some catalogs. Some catalogs have multiple copies marked for the Curator, Rare Book Stacks and the Exhibition Office. Material dated after 1980 shows fewer annotations, and are primarily in the form of gallery guides, rather than catalog listings of items on display. Additional unannotated Huntington publications regarding the collections are also included (e.g. Preliminary handbook of the art collections).

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Huntington Library collections: reprinted from The Huntington Library Bulletin. Number 1. May 1931

Rare Books

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Mexico in the Sixteenth Century: an exhibition at the Huntington Library

Rare Books

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Attendant polishing andirons in the library of the Huntington residence

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Attendant is kneeling on marble floor in front of the fireplace at the east end of the Huntington residence library. Label accompanying photograph in album reads "HEH 12 Attendant polishing andirons, fireplace in Library room of Huntington Art Gallery." Photograph appeared in Los Angeles Times article of November 6, 1938.

photCL 107 vol13 (12)

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Lantern slides 1-40

Lantern slides 41-84

A Handbook to the Huntington Library Exhbitition

Huntington Library collections: reprinted from The Huntington Library Bulletin. Number 1. May 1931

Mexico in the Sixteenth Century: an exhibition at the Huntington Library

Attendant polishing andirons in the library of the Huntington residence