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News Release - The Huntington Acquires Works by Several African American Artists, Early Abstract Oil Sketches, and a Tiffany Chair

Jun. 18, 2019

SAN MARINO Calif.— The Art Collectors' Council of The Huntington Library Art Collections and Botanical Gardens funded the purchase of several notable American works at its annual meeting last month...

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Frontiers

What’s Old Is New Again

Jun. 18, 2019

The cycad is often regarded as a living fossil —a favorite food of dinosaurs that hasn’t changed much in hundreds of millions of years. An international team of botanists debunked that...

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Verso

Harvesting an Orchard to Feed the Hungry

Jun. 12, 2019 by Usha Lee McFarling
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Have you ever wondered what happens to the ripe, luscious oranges you see growing in The Huntington's orchards? They help feed people in need ...

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Verso

Before There Were Yearbooks

Jun. 5, 2019 by Deborah Miller
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This is the season when students start scribbling words like "Have a great summer!" ...

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News Release - The Huntington to Enter Float in the 2020 Rose Parade® for the First Time in 50 Years

Jun. 4, 2019

SAN MARINO, Calif. — The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it will enter a float in the Jan. 1, 2020 Rose Parade®. The beloved Southern California destination...

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News Release - Centennial Celebration Offers Something for Everyone with a Range of Innovative Programs

Jun. 4, 2019

SAN MARINO, Calif. — The Huntington's Centennial Celebration kicks off Sept. 5, 2019, setting in motion a yearlong series of exhibitions, public programs, new initiatives, and more—inviting people...

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Lecture

Richard Neutra, Landscape Architect

Jun. 3, 2019

Architectural historian Barbara Lamprecht explores a little known but key aspect of Richard Neutra's unique contribution to architecture: designing environments that fused constructions and site to create...

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Video

The Old Menus of New Chinatown

May. 29, 2019

Li Wei Yang, curator of the Pacific Rim Collection at The Huntington, retraces the history of Chinatown in Los Angeles using old Chinese Restaurant menus from the You Chung Hong Family Collection ...

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News Release - 1919, the Year of The Huntington's Founding, is Subject of Sweeping Centennial Exhibition

May. 28, 2019

SAN MARINO, Calif.— "Nineteen Nineteen," the major exhibition of the Centennial Celebration at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, will open on Sept. 21, 2019, demonstrating...

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Lecture

America's First Botanical Garden

May. 23, 2019

Historian Victoria Johnson discusses the life of David Hosack, the attending physician at the Hamilton-Burr duel and founder of the nation's first public botanical garden, today the site of Rockefeller...

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