Frontiers

The famous poet paid an unheralded visit to the Library in 1932 to view his manuscriptsOn Oct. 8, 1923, P. K. Foley, a well-known Boston bookseller and bibliographer, wrote a letter to Robert O. Schad, Henry E. Huntington’s assistant curator of rare books.

The Longo Collection traces seismic shifts in obstetrics and gynecology over six centuriesThe images are haunting glimpses into the most primal and private of human moments—the experience of birth

For Ernest Marquez, a lifelong obsession ends up documenting the evolution of L.A.Even as a novice collector, Ernest Marquez found that he had a discerning eye for early images of Southern California

The Huntington's rare cookbooks reveal changes in American cooking that eventually sparked a food movementWe hear the word “artisanal” all the time—attached to cheese, chocolate, coffee, even fast-food chain sandwiches—but what does it really mean?

A needlework treasure from the collection of Jonathan and Karin FieldingThe colorfully embroidered samplers produced in early America by girls between the ages of eight and 18 were typically the result of a creative partnership

Two historians assess Mulholland's responsibility for one of the nation's worst civil engineering disastersIn the critically acclaimed book Heavy Ground: William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster, historians Norris Hundley, Jr. and Donald C. Jackson provide a detailed account and analysis of the collapse of the St. Francis Dam

Reverence for the Bard permeates The HuntingtonMarking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, Stephen Tabor, The Huntington's curator of early printed books, relates how the institution's founder built one of the world's great collections of the playwright's works.

The Huntington's cryopreservation program strives to conserve endangered plantsThe caretakers of the tender succulents in the Desert Garden may cringe at news of a prolonged cold snap, but Raquel Folgado