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News Release - The Huntington Acquires the Papers of the Chinese American Family Featured in the Book “On Gold Mountain” by Lisa See

Wed., May 13, 2020
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired the papers of Gilbert, Florence, and Leslee See Leong, members of two of the earliest and most prominent Chinese American families in Los Angeles
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The Year Was 1970

Wed., May 13, 2020 | Lisa Blackburn
The Huntington's bimonthly newsletter has been in print for more than a half-century.
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Huntington Incunabula in the Digital Era - Zoom Lecture

Wed., May 13, 2020

Join Huntington staff members Stephen Tabor (Curator of Rare Books), Joel Klein (Molina Curator for the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences) and Holly Mendenhall (Digital Projects Manager) for a discussion on incunabula in The Huntington’s collections. These rare books printed before 1501 have long held great interest to librarians and historians of the book. Panelists discuss how these rare books came to be in The Huntington’s collections, the various tools used for the study of medical incunables, and our efforts to digitize these materials. This talk is the first in a series presented by the Library Reader Services Department.

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"The Last Gleanings" of Jules Breton

Wed., May 6, 2020 | Catherine Hess
The orange glow of the setting sun washes over the low-lying clouds and almost matches the rosy cheeks of the two young women in the foreground
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The Loneliest Gardeners

Mon., April 27, 2020 | Lisa Blackburn
Almost every garden has some common requirements: healthy soil, sunlight, irrigation, regular maintenance. But there are those who will tell you that a rose garden needs something more
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A Real Fake: The Shakespeare Forgeries of William Henry Ireland

Wed., April 22, 2020 | Vanessa Wilkie, Ph.D.
The term "fake news" now features prominently in our cultural lexicon. While the nuances are unspoken, we tend to assume that fake news is the opposite of real news
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Huntington 101 - Online Series

Mon., April 20, 2020

Join longtime Huntington staff member Randy Shulman for a three-part online class on The Huntington’s origins, history, and renaissance as well as the background of the dramatic changes over the past 25 years.

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News Release - The Huntington Acquires the Papers of Dana Gioia, Former California Poet Laureate and Chair of the National Endowment of the Arts

Mon., April 20, 2020
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired the papers of Dana Gioia, an internationally acclaimed poet and writer who served as the chair of the National Endowment for the Arts