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The Ladies' New Medical Guide an instructor, counsellor and friend in all the delicate and wonderful matters peculiar to women: fully explaining the nature and mystery of the reproductive organs in both sexes

I had the pleasure of attending "Ending a Mighty Conflict: The Civil War in 1864–1865 and Beyond," a conference that took place at The Huntington last month. The lively talks by distinguished scholars reminded me of my recent encounters with the handwritten accounts of Civil War soldiers. Expressing noble sentiments, these soldiers called the war the "mightiest struggle ever recorded in the history of the world"

The Huntington has partnered with the Pasadena nonprofit Curatorial Assistance to mount the first exhibition devoted entirely to the work of Maynard L. Parker (1900–1976), the influential mid-20th-century architectural and garden photographer whose work helped define the era.

An intimate glimpse at a Medieval poem put to a surprising useAs a graduate student doing research in the library at The Huntington in the summer of 2002, I examined a manuscript that surprised me so much

Fanchon and Marco's big "Ideas" revolutionized the 1920s theater worldChances are you've never heard of Fanchon and Marco. But in the 1920s, millions of Americans had. 

Contemplating the impact of Blue Boy's departure from EnglandThis fall, Huntington art curators Catherine Hess and Melinda McCurdy unveil Blue Boy & Co., a 179-page book highlighting the richness and diversity of The Huntington's European collection.

The documentary filmmaker Paul Bockhorst discovered the creative spark for his most recent film in 2011 when he visited The Huntington's exhibition "The House That Sam Built," a show focused on the furniture of mid-20th-century craftsman Sam Maloof

The Huntington serves as ground zero in a race to research, and ultimately kill, the pests that threaten Southern California's treesFour years of historic drought. Restricted water use. The Darth Vader of tree pests and assorted other destructive bugs, diseases, fungi, and root rot.