Curator Olga Tsapina discusses the account book of an Underground Railroad operator.
In this lecture, Benjamin Madley (Univeristy of California, Los Angeles) discusses the near-annihilation and survival of California's indigenous population under United States rule.
The Art of Penjing
Use this resource to inspire an appreciation of the natural world.
Locate and learn about thousands of flowers, plants, and trees in over 120 acres of stunning gardens with the botanical collections tours.
Podcast series produced by The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, hosted by Huntington President Karen R. Lawrence. In this first season, inaugurated during the institution�s Centennial, Dr. Lawrence talks with the heads of the library, art museum, and botanical gardens about why they do what they do and what makes their work at The Huntington so deeply rewarding.
This program explores how educators, librarians, curators, artists, writers, and students can harness the power of digital archives and storytelling at a time when many of us are missing the hands-on experience of using library collections. Attendees learn about free online storytelling platforms that can be repurposed for immersive narratives such as virtual collection show-and-tells, digital exhibits, and close reading tools. Presenters build a case study example using an object from The Huntington’s collections—a Japanese map illustrating topics of interest to the Japanese visitor or immigrant to Hawaiʻi. This event is part of an ongoing webinar series presented by the Library's Reader Services Department, the Multi-Storied Library.
Use this resource to explore the importance of community
Connecting with Mary Cassatt's Pastels
A fascination with Flax.
Explore more than 300 hundred years of outdoor sculpture ranging from the classical to the contemporary, at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
The Huntington's cryopreservation program strives to conserve endangered plants.
Henry Huntington acquired one of the rarest books in the history of English literature: the so-called "bad quarto" of Hamlet. Zachary Lesser, professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses how this book's discovery in 1823 transformed our ideas about Hamlet, how it made its way to The Huntington, and what can we learn through this book's history about modern libraries
Hidden Within "The Three Witches"
How Do You Frame a Masterpiece?
Rose hybridizer Tom Carruth, the E. L. and Ruth B. Shannon Curator of the Rose Collections at The Huntington, introduces his newest floribunda, 'Huntington's Hundredth', developed to commemorate the institution's upcoming centennial. The old-fashioned rose is a soft pastel yellow touched with a blush of orchid pink and cream, with a powerful fragrance reminiscent of citrus blossoms and sweet fruit.
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, art historian and journalist, reveals the scholarship and science behind Project Blue Boy, a two-year effort to conserve one of Western Art's greatest masterpieces: The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough.
Use this resource to learn about the journeys people have taken and imagine the journeys you might take.
How a Scottish scientist's invention influenced 19th-century American decorative art
Article for The Huntington's Frontier Magazine with assistant curator, Lily Allen. Allen describes the contributions of pioneer cartographer, Laura L Whitlock, creator of the Official Transportation and City Map of Los Angeles. Whitlock was the first woman cartographer in the United States to publish her work for the mass market and the first person in the country to win a federal lawsuit establishing copyright protection for future mapmakers.