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News Release - The Huntington Acquires Important Collection of Telegraph History Papers from the Civil War and Postwar Era

Tue., Jan. 26, 2021
In a move that deepens its collections in the history of science and technology as well as its American Civil War holdings, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens has acquired the personal papers of Thomas T. Eckert (1825–1910)
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News Release - The Huntington to Renovate and Expand Its Historic Tea Room

Thu., Jan. 21, 2021
The project will restore the front of the original 1911 building and create a new pavilion opening onto the Shakespeare Garden
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Unmoored Gardens: Shifting Cultural Spaces in Late Imperial China

Thu., Jan. 21, 2021

Dr. Einor Cervone, the Mozhai Foundation Curatorial Fellow in the department of Chinese art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), explores the unlikely links between Ming dynasty (1368–1644) garden culture and waterborne culture. The talk showcases how refined activities like painting, calligraphy, and music were transformed when relocated to the waterscape.

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Artificial Lives

Wed., Jan. 20, 2021 | Sherryl Vint, Peter Boxall
The notion of the artificial is necessarily understood in concert with the linked notion of the natural and thus the boundary between what is found and what is made.
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News Release - The Huntington Names Winner of Inaugural Shapiro Book Prize

Thu., Jan. 14, 2021
The biennial award of $10,000 for outstanding first monograph in American history and culture goes to Benjamin Francis-Fallon for The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History
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Lunchtime Art Talk on Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork

Wed., Jan. 13, 2021

Join Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi, Made in L.A. 2020 assistant curator of performance, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition “Made in L.A. 2020: a version.” The program is presented by the Hammer Museum.

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Securing Election Results in 1640

Wed., Jan. 13, 2021 | Vanessa Wilkie, Ph.D.
When Congressional sessions resumed after the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, many people watched televised proceedings set in motion some 200 years ago.
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Cataloging in the Time of COVID

Wed., Jan. 13, 2021

Cataloging in the Time of COVID: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How The Huntington’s American History Materials Are Made Accessible by Archival Processing

Join three panelists for a behind-the-scenes look at how a recent acquisition of American history materials—the Shapiro collection—came to be in The Huntington’s collections, how the foundational American collections have been accessed by researchers over time, and how all these materials are being made more accessible through the art of archival processing, a crucial element of collections care and stewardship. This event is part of an ongoing webinar series presented by the Library’s Reader Services Department, the Multi-Storied Library.