Videos and Recorded Programs

Apariciones /Apparitions is a video by acclaimed Los Angeles artist Carolina Caycedo that reconceptualizes iconic Huntington spaces through Afro-Latinx and indigenous spiritual practices.

Architect Marc Appleton, author of “Ranches: Home on the Range in California”, discusses the history of cattle ranching in California. Once a robust industry in the state, ranching is now a much diminished and challenged enterprise, says Appleton, and many ranchers are witnessing the passing of a way of life.  Listen

Historian Steven Usselman traces how one breakthrough technology—the deep well centrifugal pump—triggered an unfolding cascade of change that reshaped the Golden State, both literally and figuratively. Conceived for use on citrus ranches such as those owned by Henry Huntington, these intricate mechanical marvels spilled over into many domains, including water management, food processing, oil drilling, and aviation.

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 “soul anchorages” or “habitats.” Renowned for his sleek interpretations of Modernism, Neutra’s first job after World War I was as a gardening assistant to one of Switzerland’s most famous early purveyors of Modern landscape design. Neutra later integrated...

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.

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 Center. Johnson is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated biography of Hosack, American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic.

The Browns of California: A Conversation with Governor Jerry Brown and Miriam Pawel, moderated by William Deverell. The program is presented by the Huntington–USC Institute on California and the West.