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Remembering Loren Miller

Mon., Nov. 16, 2015 | Alice Tsay
Loren Miller (1903-1967) was a Los Angeles-based attorney and civil rights activist who drafted most of the briefs in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Brown vs. Board of Education (1954), which ended legal segregation in public schools.
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Unforgettable World War I Posters

Thu., Nov. 12, 2015 | David H. Mihaly
For people today, the mention of World War I posters may conjure up charged images promoting patriotic messages: think Uncle Sam pointing forcefully in I Want You for the U.S. Army or a coquette in sailor's uniform
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LOOK>> An Ant Plant

Mon., Nov. 9, 2015 | Dylan Hannon, Kate Lain
With LOOK>>, we venture into our wide-ranging collections and bring out a single object to explore in a short video. For this installment, we look at a Hydnophytum specimen, one of the ant plants in our tropical collections.
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Isherwood in California

Thu., Nov. 5, 2015 | James J. Berg, Chris Freeman
The conference "'My Self in a Transitional State': Isherwood in California" takes place at The Huntington on November 13 and 14 in Rothenberg Hall. We asked the conference conveners—James J. Berg
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Press Release - Contemporary Art by Alex Israel to Be Installed in Historic Huntington Art Gallery, in Site-Specific Intervention

Thu., Nov. 5, 2015
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it will stage an intervention in its historic Huntington Art Gallery of works by Alex Israel, one of the most recognizable emerging artists on the contemporary art stage.
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Naughty Los Angeles in the 1890s

Mon., Nov. 2, 2015 | William Deverell
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
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Reading the Aftermath of Civil War

Wed., Oct. 28, 2015 | Shirley Samuels
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"
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Maynard Parker’s California Flair

Fri., Oct. 23, 2015 | Kevin Durkin
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.