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Newton's Death Mask
Last summer, I worked as an intern in the manuscripts department, exploring the Library's large collection of history of science materials. Now and then, a nonpaper item would appear among the boxes and boxes of manuscripts.
Bee’s-Eye Views
While traveling in the Amazon region of Ecuador, award-winning photographer David Leaser had an epiphany. What if he could use a computer to help him capture images of the tiniest flowers on the rainforest floor and blow them up to dazzling effect in large format prints?
The Place to Be
The second annual LitFest Pasadena takes place this Saturday, May 11, at Pasadena's Central Park. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., you can catch readings, performances, and panel discussions from more than 75 authors, storytellers, performers, and exhibitors.
To Build a Fire
Jack London celebrated his 28th birthday on Jan. 12, 1904, less than a week after mailing off his manuscript of The Sea-Wolf. As Earle Labor explains in his new biography, Jack London: An American Life, London was already off on a new adventure
Recent Lectures: Oct. 24–Nov. 9, 2016
Home to gorgeous gardens, spectacular art, and stunning rare books and manuscripts, The Huntington also offers an impressive slate of lectures and conferences on topics and themes related to its collections. Featured are audio recordings of five recent lectures and conversations.
Going Public
Today is Founder's Day, the birthday of Henry Edwards Huntington. Each year, The Huntington commemorates the occasion with a Founder's Day Lecture, and last week Shelley M. Bennett delivered a talk titled "Private to Public
CONFERENCES | When Every Day is Labor Day
Echoes of a conference held at The Huntington in April continue to reverberate this Labor Day weekend. "Guest Workers: Western Origin, Global Future," a two-day conference organized by historian Matthew Garcia, spun out of an exhibition
The Hilton Als Series: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
An installation of contemporary British paintings of fictional Black characters has been juxtaposed with The Huntington's collection of 18th-century British portraits
Recent Lectures: Jan. 9–Feb. 8, 2017
Home to gorgeous gardens, spectacular art, and stunning rare books and manuscripts, The Huntington also offers an impressive slate of lectures and conferences on topics and themes related to its collections. Featured are audio recordings of five recent lectures and conversations.
Exhibiting Skills
During the first week of February, The Huntington hosted colleagues from public gardens around the country who had a common educational goal: getting more value from plants. Ten people spent a week in a workshop called "Exhibiting Skills,"
ORCHID COLLECTION | Orchids 101
Brandon Tam and Lance Birk know what it's like to drive the 101 Freeway with a truck full of orchids. Last summer, they helped move more than 6,000 orchids from the Santa Barbara home of the late S. Robert Weltz to the greenhouses of The Huntington.
A Library of Last Resort
Henry Edwards Huntington was born on this day in 1850, which makes today Founder's Day at The Huntington. You can mark the occasion by downloading last week's Founder's Day talk by David Zeidberg, the Avery Director of the Library.
How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
Did you join the millions of Americans who made New Year's resolutions a couple of weeks ago? If you're determined to travel more and get plenty of exercise in 2014, The Huntington has the perfect solution.
New Rooms with Views
This Saturday, visitors can wander for the first time through five new rooms in the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art. The new section, previously used for storage in the Lois and Robert F. Erburu Gallery, adds 5,400 square feet of gallery space to display The Huntington's growing collection
Abundant Harvest
A generous bequest from Long Beach art collector Victor Gail (1929–2014) has greatly enhanced The Huntington's American decorative arts collection while underwriting its care and interpretation...
A Vacation Destination for Scholars
When the halls of academe begin to empty for the summer, the corridors of The Huntington start filling up. University and college faculty members make up a large percentage of the Library's researchers, and when school lets out in June they put away their syllabi
FROM THE RANCH | Economical Container Gardening and the Salad Factory Experiment
Welcome to the first post on the salad factory, an experiment to see if in both quantitative and qualitative terms, container gardening is "worth it." It is an easy to set up, relatively inexpensive grid of plastic storage tubs
EXHIBITIONS | The World of John Frame
For months now, we have been looking forward to an unusual exhibition—a display of works created by the Southern California sculptor John Frame. For the better part of five years, Frame has been assembling a body of work that features, at its core, an eclectic cast of fully articulated characters.
Great Scott (Not!)
"Sir, I have very ungraciously left unacknowledged your present of the Landscape Illustrations of Waverly." So begins an undated letter by Sir Walter Scott to Mr. Charles Tilt, Bookseller. Scott probably wrote it in 1830, thanking Tilt for sending him a copy
If Not Lawn, Then What?
California's punishing drought has produced one positive effect: local gardens have gained some freedom from the expectation of the classic green lawn. More and more gardeners are removing lawn in favor of landscapes that look good while using less water.
Top 10 Water-Wise Plants
You've heard the dire news about California's drought. And you've been thinking about swapping out your lawn for water-wise plants. But if you're used to traditional grass and ornamental plants, where do you begin?
Greene & Greene in Context
Some people may remember the exquisite furniture in The Huntington's permanent exhibition about Arts and Crafts masters Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene. The space was just reinstalled and the take-home message is clear
Celia Paul and the Brontës
Beautifully installed on the second floor of the Huntington Art Gallery, the "Celia Paul" exhibition invokes works by some of the 19th-century painters in The Huntington's permanent collection
Behind the Scenes with Sonya Levien
The life of Sonya Levien (1888–1960) reads like a rags-to-riches fairy tale. But it is also a story of fortitude, feminism, and the ability to balance personal, family, and financial ambitions.
Something Old, Something New
Memorial Day Weekend marks the beginning of an exodus of researchers who have spent the full academic year mining the collections in the Library. Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, the 2010–11 Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow